The Romance branch of Indo-European, descended from spoken Latin. Belongs here: French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, and Latin itself as the family's ancestral language. Does not belong here: a Germanic or Slavic language, even one written in the Latin alphabet, and does not belong here a Celtic language once spoken in Roman territory.
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1. Wikipedia: Romance Languages
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There are more than 900 million native speakers of Romance languages found worldwide, mainly in the Americas, Europe, and parts of Africa.
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