Home›Eurasian Language Families›Indo-European Branches›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)In GroupAllIndo-European: Romance and Italic Branch (32)Macro-areaAllIndo-European Branches (32)Indo-European: Romance and Italic Branch (32)BrowseCompareSelect all 32Castilian languagesEurasian Language FamiliesCeltiberianEurasian Language FamiliesEastern RomanceEurasian Language Families1 linkEmilian-RomagnolEurasian Language FamiliesGallo-Brittonic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesGallo-ItalicEurasian Language FamiliesGallo-RomanceEurasian Language FamiliesHispano-Celtic languagesEurasian Language FamiliesIberian RomanceEurasian Language FamiliesIbero-Caucasian languagesEurasian Language FamiliesItalicEurasian Language Families2 linksItalo-CelticEurasian Language FamiliesItalo-Dalmatian languagesEurasian Language FamiliesItalo-WesternEurasian Language FamiliesJudaeo-Romance languagesEurasian Language FamiliesLangues d'oilEurasian Language FamiliesLatino-FaliscanEurasian Language FamiliesLeponticEurasian Language FamiliesLigurian (ancient language)Eurasian Language FamiliesLusitanianEurasian Language FamiliesNorth Picene languageEurasian Language FamiliesOccitano-RomanceEurasian Language FamiliesOscanEurasian Language Families1 linkOsco-UmbrianEurasian Language FamiliesRhaeto-RomanceEurasian Language FamiliesRomanceEurasian Language Families4 linksSicelEurasian Language FamiliesSouth Picene languageEurasian Language FamiliesSouthern RomanceEurasian Language FamiliesVeneticEurasian Language FamiliesWest IberianEurasian Language FamiliesWestern RomanceEurasian Language Families1 linkSources1. 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.