The Gallo-Romance branch of Romance languages extinct: Anatolian · Paleo-Balkans (Dacian, includes French French is a Romance language globally spoken by about 110 million people who speak French (native and first language speakers combined). Around 190 million people speak French as a second language, and an additional 200 million speak it as as an acquired foreign language.[citation needed] French speaking communities are present in 57 countries and, the Langues d'oc Occitan , known also as Lenga d'òc in Occitan or Langue d'oc in French (native name: occitan [utsiˈta], lenga d'òc [ˈleŋɡɔˈðɔ(k)]; native nickname: la lenga nòstra i.e. "our [own] language") is a Romance language spoken in Occitania, that is, Southern France, the Occitan Valleys of Italy, Monaco and in the Aran Valley of Spain, Franco-Provençal Franco-Provençal or Arpitan or Romand (in Switzerland) (Vernacular: francoprovençâl, arpitan, patouès; Italian: francoprovenzale, arpitano, dialetto, patoà; French: francoprovençal, arpitan, patois) is a Romance language with several distinct dialects that form a linguistic sub-group separate from Langue d'Oïl and Langue d'Oc. The name, and several other languages spoken in modern France France (pronounced /ˈfræns/ franss or /ˈfrɑːns/ frahns; French pronunciation (help·info): [fʁɑ̃s]), officially the French Republic (French: République française, pronounced: [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is a member state of the European Union located in its western region, with several overseas territories and islands located on other, Northern Italy Northern Italy is a wide cultural, historical and geographical definition, without any administrative worth, used to indicate the northern part of the Italian nation, also referred as Settentrione. It comprises two areas belonging to Italian First level NTUS of the European Union: and east Spain Spain (pronounced /ˈspeɪn/ spayn; Spanish: España, pronounced [esˈpaɲa] ( listen)), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España), is a member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.[note 6] Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small. The Gallo-Romance languages, along with the Ibero-Romance This article is about a subdivision of the Romance language family. For the broader group of languages spoken in the Iberian Peninsula, see Iberian languages and Rhaeto-Romance Rhaeto-Romance languages are a Romance language sub-family which includes multiple languages spoken in North and North-Eastern Italy, and Switzerland. The name "Rhaeto-Romance" refers to the province of Rhaetia once in the Roman Empire groups, form Western Romance Italo-Western is, in some classifications of the Romance languages, the largest sub-group of these. It comprises 2 subsets: Italo-Dalmatian, and Western. Like all Romance languages extinct: Anatolian · Paleo-Balkans (Dacian, , the Gallo-romance languages are derived from Latin Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. With the Roman conquest, Latin was spread to countries around the Mediterranean, including a large part of Europe. Romance languages such as Aragonese, Corsican, Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Sardinian, Spanish and others, are descended from Latin, while. They have developed as a subgroup via one Gallo-Romance proto-language A proto-language in the Tree model of historical linguistics is the common ancestor of the languages that form a language family. Occasionally, the German term Ursprache is used instead which was spoken in Gaul Gaul is a historical name used in the context of Ancient Rome in references to the region of Western Europe approximating present day France, Luxembourg and Belgium, but also sometimes including the Po Valley, western Switzerland, and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine. In English, the word Gaul may also refer between the fourth As a means of recording the passage of time, the 4th century was that century which lasted from 301 to 400 and ninth centuries The 9th century is the period from 801 to 900 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian/Common Era.
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nold
Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:18:57 GM
The term Latino, which was officially adopted sometime in the 1990's by the US government actually is incorrect, because Latino refers to other . romance languages. like Portuguese and Italian, this familiar mistake is made because ...
