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"Talk sometimes in a foreign language, not to forget how bad you know it."
- Boleslav Paszkowski
Languages
Romance Languages
(Italiano)
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, os a second language in Albania, Malta, Slovenia and Croatia, by minorities in Crimea, Eritrea, FranceLibya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania and Somalia, and by expatriate communities in Europe, in the Americasand in Australia.
The Romance languages — sometimes called the Latin languages, and occasionally the Romanic or Neo-Latin languages — are the modern languages that evolved from spoken Latin between the sixth and ninth centuries A.D. and that thus form a branch of the Italic languages within the Indo-European language family.
Today, around 800 million people are native speakers worldwide, mainly in Europe and the Americas, but also elsewhere. Additionally, the major Romance languages have many non-native speakers and enjoy widespread use as lingua francas. This is especially the case for French, which is in widespread use throughout Central and West Africa, Madagascar, Mauritiusand the Maghreb region.
The five most widely spoken Romance languages by number of native speakers are Spanish (410 million), Portuguese (216 million), French (75 million), Italian (60 million), and Romanian (25 million).
(Français)
French has evolved from Gallo-Romance, the spoken Latin in Gaul. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages like Gallia Belgica and by the (Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole.
(Português)
Portuguese is the sole official language of Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe. As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese and Portuguese creole speakers are also found in Goa, Daman and Diu in India and other coutries.
(Español)
Spanish evolved from several dialects of common Latin in Iberia after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. Today it is one of the six official languages of the United Nations, and it is used as an official language by the European Union, the Organization of American States, and the Union of South American Nations, among many other international organizations.
