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.

Baleese languageFamily Romance languages
Romain Kalbris languageFamily Romance languages
Chiapas Spanish languageFamily Romance languages
arpitan savoyard languageFamily Romance languages
subject surface form: Arpitan Savoyard
Funes languageFamily Romance languages
subject surface form: Spanish
Talian languageFamily Romance languages
Roman de la Rose languageFamily Romance languages
Sutsilvan region languageFamily Romance languages
Californio Spanish languageFamily Romance languages
Zeneize languageFamily Romance languages
Tabarchino dialect languageFamily Romance languages
Bonifacino Ligurian languageFamily Romance languages
Ticinese dialect languageFamily Romance languages