Romance Languages In Europe
Roughly 210 million Europeans are native speakers of Romance languages, the largest groups including Italian (c. 65 million), French(c. 60 million), Spanish (Castilian) (c. 40 million), Romanian (c. 25 million), Portuguese(c. 10 million), Sicilian (c. 5 million, also subsumed under Italian), Catalan (c. 4 million), Galician (c. 2 million), Sardinian (c. 1 million), besides numerous smaller communities.
The Romance languages are descended from varieties of Vulgar Latin spoken in the various parts of the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity. Latin was itself part of the (otherwise extinct) Italic branch of Indo-European. Romance is divided phylogenetically into Italo-Western, Eastern Romance (including Romanian) and Sardinian.
Italo-Western in turn has the sub-branches Italo-Dalmatian (sometimes grouped with Eastern Romance), including numerous variants of Italian as well as Dalmatian, and the Western Romance languages
The Western Romance languages in turn separate into:
Gallo-Romance, including French and its varieties (Langues d'oïl), the Rhaeto-Romance languages, and the Gallo-Italic languages,Occito-Romance (East Iberian), grouped with either Gallo-Romance or West Iberian, including Occitan, Catalan and Aragonese,West Iberian (Spanish-Portuguese), including Astur-Leonese languages, Galician-Portuguese and Castilian. ..
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