Romance languages

E3592

Romance languages are a group of closely related languages, including Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian, that evolved from Vulgar Latin spoken in the Roman Empire.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Romance languages canonical 360
Eastern Romance languages 2
Langues d’oïl 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf language family
areBasedOn Latin alphabet
areDescendedFrom Italic branch of Indo-European
areDividedInto Eastern Romance languages
Southern Romance languages
Western Romance languages
areMutuallyIntelligibleToSomeDegree Czech and Slovak (false example)
Spanish and Italian
Spanish and Portuguese
areSpokenIn Africa
Americas
Europe
Oceania
developedFrom Vulgar Latin
developedIn Roman Empire
hasOrigin Vulgar Latin
includeLanguage Aragonese language
Aromanian
surface form: Aromanian language

Ibero-Romance languages
surface form: Astur-Leonese languages

Catalan language
Dalmatian language
French language
Ladin language
surface form: Friulian language

Galician language
Italian language
Ladino (Judeo-Spanish)
surface form: Judeo-Spanish language

Ladin language
Megleno-Romanian
surface form: Megleno-Romanian language

Mirandese language
Moldovan language
Occitan
surface form: Occitan language

Portuguese language
Romanian language
Romansh language
Sardinian language
Spanish language
Walloon language
shareFeature grammatical gender
rich verb conjugation
similar basic vocabulary of Latin origin
use of definite articles
subclassOf Indo-European languages

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (364)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Vallader languageFamily Romance languages
Fascian languageFamily Romance languages
Fodom languageFamily Romance languages
Anpezan languageFamily Romance languages
mirandés languageFamily Romance languages
subject surface form: Mirandés
Sendinês languageFamily Romance languages
Biellese Piedmontese languageFamily Romance languages
Badiot languageFamily Romance languages
Vercellese Piedmontese languageFamily Romance languages
Novarese Piedmontese languageFamily Romance languages
Sursilvan partOf Romance languages
Sutsilvan partOf Romance languages
Marié languageFamilyOfUse Romance languages
subject surface form: Marié
Poitevin-Saintongeais languageFamily Romance languages
Iberian kingdoms languageUsed Romance languages
Camba Spanish languageFamily Romance languages
Cismuntincu languageFamily Romance languages
Spanish is an official language of Ecuador languageFamily Romance languages
subject surface form: Spanish language in Ecuador
Matthias Bartoli languageFamily Romance languages
subject surface form: Dalmatian language
Pumontincu languageFamily Romance languages
Patouès languageFamily Romance languages
Gherdëina languageFamily Romance languages
Sercquiais languageFamily Romance languages
Emilian subclassOf Romance languages
Emilian languageFamily Romance languages
Reggiano languageFamily Romance languages
Italo-Western Romance languages subclassOf Romance languages
Champenois language languageFamily Romance languages
Lorrain language languageFamily Romance languages
Burgundian (Oïl) language languageFamily Romance languages
Occitania historicalLanguageFamily Romance languages
Roussillonnais Catalan hasLanguageFamily Romance languages
Old Norman languageFamily Romance languages
Late Latin influenced Romance languages
Brayon French languageFamily Romance languages
Romanesco dialect languageFamily Romance languages
Leonese languageFamily Romance languages
Classical Latin ancestorOf Romance languages
Castelroussin belongsToLanguageFamily Romance languages
Cherbourgeois belongsToLanguageFamily Romance languages
Proslogion languageFamily Romance languages
Timoteo usedInLanguageFamily Romance languages
Siculo-Arabic lexicalInfluenceFrom Romance languages
Canton of Neuchâtel languageGroup Romance languages
Quinta Partida languageFamily Romance languages
Salentino dialect hasLanguageFamily Romance languages
Griko hasLexicalBorrowingFrom Romance languages
Tabasco Spanish languageFamily Romance languages
Gulf Spanish dialect zone languageFamily Romance languages