Romance language

/roʊˈmæns ˈlæŋgwɪdʒ/

/rəʊˈmæns ˈlæŋgwɪdʒ/

Other forms: Romance languages

Definitions of Romance language

1. noun

   the group of languages derived from Latin
   synonyms: Latinian language, Romance

   types:

   Haitian Creole

   a creole language spoken by most Haitians; based on French and various African languages

   Italian

   the Romance language spoken in Italy

   French

   the Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France

   Portuguese

   the Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil

   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

   Spanish

   the Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain

   Catalan

   the Romance language spoken in Catalonia in eastern Spain (related to Spanish and Occitan)

   Rhaeto-Romance, Rhaeto-Romanic

   Romance dialects spoken in parts of southeastern Switzerland and northern Italy and the Tyrol

   Romanian, Rumanian

   an eastern Romance language spoken in Romania

   Old Italian

   the Italian language up to the middle of the 16th century

   Sardinian

   the Italian dialect spoken in Sardinia; sometimes considered a separate language with many loan words from Spanish

   Tuscan

   a dialect of Italian spoken in Tuscany (especially Florence)

   Langue d'oil, Langue d'oil French

   medieval provincial dialects of French spoken in central and northern France

   Langue d'oc, Langue d'oc French

   medieval provincial dialects of French formerly spoken in the south of France

   Old French

   the earliest form of the French language; 9th to 15th century

   Norman French, Norman-French, Old North French

   the medieval Norman dialect of Old French

   Anglo-French, Anglo-Norman

   the French (Norman) language used in medieval England

   Canadian French

   the French language as spoken in Quebec, Canada

   Walloon

   a dialect of French spoken in Belgium and adjacent parts of France

   Castilian

   the Spanish language as spoken in Castile

   Judeo-Spanish, Ladino

   the Spanish dialect spoken by Sephardic Jews but written in the Hebrew script

   Mexican Spanish

   the dialect of Spanish spoken in Mexico

   Friuli, Friulian

   a Rhaeto-Romance dialect spoken in northeastern Italy

   Ladin

   a Rhaeto-Romance dialect of Romansh spoken in southeastern Switzerland

   Romansh, Rumansh

   the Rhaeto-Romance language spoken in southeastern Switzerland; it is an official language of Switzerland

   type of:

   Latin

   any dialect of the language of ancient Rome