Home›Eurasian Language Families›In Group›Indo-European: Romance and Italic BranchGroupIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchItalic is the branch of Indo-European that produced Latin, and Romance is the family of languages descended from spoken Latin, comprising the Ibero-Romance languages, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, the Gallo-Romance languages, French, Occitan, the Italo-Dalmatian languages, Italian and its relatives, Romanian and the other Eastern Romance languages, and a scatter of smaller and extinct varieties across the former Roman world. This child group, under Indo-European Branches, holds every Eurasian Language Families member whose sourced description identifies it as Italic, Romance or a named Romance sub-branch, making it the largest of the eight Indo-European children by simple weight of the family's own internal diversity.FactsIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonPrimary RegionWell-attestedEurope and the Americas 1Indo-European: Romance and Italic BranchFilter Results32 entriesParent Family (Classification Tree)AllEastern Romance (1)Indo-European (1)Italic (1)Romance (3)Western Romance (1)RegionAllCaucasus (1)Central and southern Italy (1)Corsica, Sardinia and Roman Africa (1)France, Iberia, Northern Italy and Switzerland (1)Gaul and Great Britain (1)Iberian Peninsula (1)Italy, Corsica (France), formerly Dalmatia (Croatia) (1)Latium in Italy, later the Roman Empire (1)North-western Italy and south-eastern France (1)Northern Italy, primarily the Emilia-Romagna region. (1)Regions where Romance languages predominate (1)Southeast Europe and Eastern Europe (1)Veneto and Friuli, northeastern Italy (1)Speaker Count BandAll660000.000000 (1)10000000.000000 (1)74000000.000000 (1)833200000.000000 (1)900000000.000000 (2)Macro-areaAllIndo-European Branches (32)Indo-European: Romance and Italic Branch (32)BrowseCompareSelect all 32Castilian languagesIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchCeltiberianIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchEastern RomanceIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchEmilian-RomagnolIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchGallo-Brittonic languagesIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchGallo-ItalicIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchGallo-RomanceIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchHispano-Celtic languagesIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchIberian RomanceIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchIbero-Caucasian languagesIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchItalicIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchItalo-CelticIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchItalo-Dalmatian languagesIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchItalo-WesternIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchJudaeo-Romance languagesIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchLangues d'oilIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchLatino-FaliscanIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchLeponticIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchLigurian (ancient language)Indo-European: Romance and Italic BranchLusitanianIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchNorth Picene languageIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchOccitano-RomanceIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchOscanIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchOsco-UmbrianIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchRhaeto-RomanceIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchRomanceIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchSicelIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchSouth Picene languageIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchSouthern RomanceIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchVeneticIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchWest IberianIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchWestern RomanceIndo-European: Romance and Italic BranchSources1. Wikipedia: Romance Languagestier 2Wikimedia FoundationBody, native-speaker distribution sentenceQuote, Body, native-speaker distribution sentenceThere are more than 900 million native speakers of Romance languages found worldwide, mainly in the Americas, Europe, and parts of Africa.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.