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Romance languages
The Romance languages (sometimes referred to as Romanic languages, Latin languages, Neolatin languages or Neo-Latin languages) are a branch of the Indo-European language family comprising all the languages that descend from Latin, the language of ancient Rome. There are more than 600 million native...
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Occitan language
Occitan (pronounced /ˈɒksɨtən/), 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...
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ISO 639-1 Code:
- oc
Galician Language
Galician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, as well as in small bordering zones in the neighbouring autonomous communities of Asturias and Castile and León and...
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- glg
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Romansch Language
Romansh (also spelled Romansch, Rumants(c)h, or Romanche; Romansh: rumantsch/rumauntsch/romontsch; German: Rätoromanisch) is one of the four national languages of Switzerland, along with German, Italian and French. It is one of the Rhaeto-Romance...
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- roh
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Franco-Provençal Language
Franco-Provençal (Francoprovençal) or Arpitan or Romand (in Switzerland) (Vernacular: francoprovençâl, arpitan, patouès; Italian: francoprovenzale, arpitano, dialetto, patoà; French: francoprovençal, arpitan, patois) is a Romance language with...
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- frp
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Sardinian language
Sardinian (Sardu, Limba Sarda) is, after Italian, the main language spoken on the island of Sardinia, Italy. It is considered the most conservative of the Romance languages in terms of phonology and is noted for its Paleosardinian substratum.
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Friulian Language
Friulian ( furlan (help·info) or affectionately marilenghe in Friulian, friulano in Italian) (also Eastern Ladin), is a Romance language belonging to the Rhaetian family, spoken in the Friuli region of northeastern Italy. Friulian has around 800,000...
ISO 639-2 Code:
- fur
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- fur
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Catalan language
Catalan (Catalan: català, pronounced [kətəˈla] or [kataˈla]) is a Romance language, the national and official language of Andorra, and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of the Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencian...
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ISO 639-1 Code:
- ca
Romanian Language
Romanian (obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: limba română [ˈlimba roˈmɨnə] ( listen)) or Daco-Romanian is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova. It has official status...
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- ron
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- ro
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Portuguese Language
Portuguese ( português (help·info) or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and northern Portugal. It is derived from the Latin spoken by the romanized pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula (namely the...
ISO 639-2 Code:
- por
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- por
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- pt
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Spanish Language
Spanish or Castilian (español or castellano) is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that originated in northern Spain and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile, evolving into the principal language of government and trade in the...
ISO 639-2 Code:
- spa
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- spa
ISO 639-1 Code:
- es
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Italian Language
Italian ( italiano (help·info), or lingua italiana) is a Romance language spoken by about 60 million people in Italy, and by a total of around 70 million in the world. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four official languages. It is also the...
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- ita
ISO 639-1 Code:
- it
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Ladino Language
Judaeo-Spanish (native names Djudeo-Espanyol, Ladino, Djudezmo, Djudeo-Kasteyano, etc.), commonly known as Ladino, is a Romance language derived from Old Spanish. As a Jewish language, it is influenced heavily by Hebrew and Aramaic, but also Arabic,...
ISO 639-2 Code:
- lad
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- lad
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Walloon language
Walloon (Walon) is a Romance language spoken as a second language by some in Wallonia, Belgium. It belongs to the langue d'oïl language family, whose most prominent member is the French language, but should not be considered a French dialect: a...
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- wln
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Brazilian Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese (Portuguese: português brasileiro or português do Brasil ; pt-BR) is a group of Portuguese dialects written and spoken by virtually all the almost 200 million inhabitants (2009) of Brazil and by a few million Brazilian emigrants...
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French Language
French (français, French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃sɛ]) is a Romance language globally spoken by about 77 million people as a first language (mother tongue), by 190 million as a second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired...
ISO 639-2 Code:
- fra
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- fra
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- fr
