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Romance languages have a number of shared features across all languages: Romance languages are moderately inflecting, i.e. there is a moderately complex system of affixes (primarily suffixes) that are attached to word roots to convey grammatical information such as number, gender, person, tense, etc. Verbs have much more inflection than nouns.
The Romance languages, also known as the Latin [2] or Neo-Latin [3] languages, are the languages that are directly descended from Vulgar Latin. [4] They are the only extant subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family. The five most widely spoken Romance languages by number of native speakers are:
Romance trends in 7th and 8th century Latin documents. Chapel hill: University of North Carolina Press. Pope, Mildred K. (1934). From Latin to modern French. Manchester University Press. Sampson, Rodney (2010). Vowel Prosthesis in Romance: A Diachronic Study. Oxford University Press. Zampaulo, André (2019).
The Lombard language in north-central Italy and the Rhaeto-Romance languages have the "southeast" characteristic of /tʃ/ instead of /(t)s/ for palatalized /k/. The Venetian language in northeast Italy and some of the Rhaeto-Romance languages have the "southeast" characteristic of developing /kt/ to /tt/.
Neolatino Romance (or simply 'Neolatino') [37] [38] is a naturalistic pan-Romance zonal auxiliary language, proposed as a standard language for Romance as a whole, to ease communication amongst or with speakers of Romance languages, complementing (not substituting) the standards that exist locally (Portuguese, Spanish, etc.).
In some of the Romance languages the copula, the equivalent of the verb to be in English, is relatively complex compared to its counterparts in other languages. A copula is a word that links the subject of a sentence with a predicate (a subject complement). Whereas English has one main copula verb (and some languages like Russian mostly express ...
Romance Philology is an academic journal, founded with the goal of exploring the breadth and depth of Romance languages. It covers a wide range of topics including late Latin, medieval literatures of the Romance languages, historical and general linguistics, and textual criticism. The journal, recognized for its prestigious contributions to the ...
Robert Anderson Hall Jr. (April 4, 1911 – December 2, 1997) was an American linguist and specialist in the Romance languages.He was a professor of Linguistics at Cornell University and the first president of The Wodehouse Society (US).