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ro·mance lan·guages
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Romance languages
The Romance languages are all the related languages derived from Vulgar Latin and forming a subgroup of the Italic languages within the Indo-European language family. The Romance languages developed from Latin in the sixth to ninth centuries. Today, there are more than 800 million native speakers worldwide, mainly in Europe and the Americas and many smaller regions scattered throughout the world, as well as large numbers of non-native speakers, and widespread use as lingua franca. Because of the extreme difficulty and varying methodology of distinguishing among language, variety, and dialect, it is impossible to count the number of Romance languages now in existence, but the standard count places the number of living Romance languages at almost 25. In fact, the number may be slightly larger, and many more existed previously. In 2007 the five most widely spoken Romance languages by number of native speakers were Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian. Many of these languages have large numbers of non-native speakers; this is especially the case for French, in widespread use throughout the Maghreb, Central and West Africa and Madagascar.
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Romance Languages
the name given to the languages that sprung from the Latin, and were spoken in the districts of South Europe that had been provinces of Rome.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of romance languages in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of romance languages in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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