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Romance language
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Noun1.Romance language - the group of languages derived from Latin
Haitian Creole - a creole language spoken by most Haitians; based on French and various African languages
Latin - any dialect of the language of ancient Rome
Italian - the Romance language spoken in Italy
French - the Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France
Portuguese - the Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil
Galician - a language spoken in Galicia in northwestern Spain; it is between Portuguese and Spanish but closer to Portuguese; sometimes considered a Portuguese or Spanish dialect
Spanish - the Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain
Catalan - the Romance language spoken in Catalonia in eastern Spain (related to Spanish and Occitan)
Rhaeto-Romance, Rhaeto-Romanic - Romance dialects spoken in parts of southeastern Switzerland and northern Italy and the Tyrol
Rumanian, Romanian - an eastern Romance language spoken in Romania


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The authors also provide insights into the development of the English language by analyzing its characteristics as a polyglot based on Greek, Latin, Germanic and the Romance languages.
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Spanish is a romance language, with a lot of similarities to other romance languages, such as French, Italian, and Portuguese.
 
 
 
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