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Detailed explanation-1: -1. Spanish. Spanish is the most spoken of the Romance languages, with around 75% of today’s Spanish vocabulary coming from Latin. After Mandarin Chinese, Spanish is the second most spoken native language worldwide.

Detailed explanation-2: -English is not a Romance language. Instead, it belongs to the Germanic language family, and includes the following languages: Afrikaans. Danish.

Detailed explanation-3: -The term Romance derives from the historical origins of these languages in the Roman empire. Romanice meant to speak ‘in Roman’, which eventually became Romance. So that’s why we still refer to any language with roots in Latin as a Romance language with a capital R.

Detailed explanation-4: -The main difference between these two language groups, of course, is that the Romance languages evolved from Vulgar Latin, whereas the Germanic languages evolved from Proto-Germanic. For this reason, there are many differences between the Romance and Germanic languages, both in terms of grammar and intonation patterns.