Definitions of Romance
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relating to languages derived from Latin“Romance languages”
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synonyms:
Latin
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the group of languages derived from Latin
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synonyms:
Latinian language, Romance language
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types:
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Haitian Creole
a creole language spoken by most Haitians; based on French and various African languages
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Italian
the Romance language spoken in Italy
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French
the Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France
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Portuguese
the Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil
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Galician
a language spoken in Galicia in northwestern Spain; it is between Portuguese and Spanish but closer to Portuguese; sometimes considered a Portuguese or Spanish dialect
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Spanish
the Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain
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Catalan
the Romance language spoken in Catalonia in eastern Spain (related to Spanish and Occitan)
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Rhaeto-Romance, Rhaeto-Romanic
Romance dialects spoken in parts of southeastern Switzerland and northern Italy and the Tyrol
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Romanian, Rumanian
an eastern Romance language spoken in Romania
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Old Italian
the Italian language up to the middle of the 16th century
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Sardinian
the Italian dialect spoken in Sardinia; sometimes considered a separate language with many loan words from Spanish
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Tuscan
a dialect of Italian spoken in Tuscany (especially Florence)
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Langue d'oil, Langue d'oil French
medieval provincial dialects of French spoken in central and northern France
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Langue d'oc, Langue d'oc French
medieval provincial dialects of French formerly spoken in the south of France
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Old French
the earliest form of the French language; 9th to 15th century
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Norman French, Norman-French, Old North French
the medieval Norman dialect of Old French
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Anglo-French, Anglo-Norman
the French (Norman) language used in medieval England
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Canadian French
the French language as spoken in Quebec, Canada
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Walloon
a dialect of French spoken in Belgium and adjacent parts of France
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Castilian
the Spanish language as spoken in Castile
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Judeo-Spanish, Ladino
the Spanish dialect spoken by Sephardic Jews but written in the Hebrew script
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Mexican Spanish
the dialect of Spanish spoken in Mexico
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Friuli, Friulian
a Rhaeto-Romance dialect spoken in northeastern Italy
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Ladin
a Rhaeto-Romance dialect of Romansh spoken in southeastern Switzerland
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Romansh, Rumansh
the Rhaeto-Romance language spoken in southeastern Switzerland; it is an official language of Switzerland
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type of:
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Latin
any dialect of the language of ancient Rome
Pronunciation
US
/roʊˈmæns/
UK
/rəʊˈmæns/
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