ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -What are the Romance languages? The Romance languages are a group of related languages all derived from Vulgar Latin within historical times and forming a subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family. The major languages of the family include French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian.

Detailed explanation-2: -The major languages of the family include French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Romanian, all national languages.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to the 2021 edition of Ethnologue, the most widely spoken of these languages are Spanish (543 million), Portuguese (258 million), French (267 million), Italian (68 million), and Romanian (24 million). Regional Romance languages also exist, including Catalan, Occitan and Sardinian.

Detailed explanation-4: -Portuguese is one of the Romance languages. This does not entail that it is a language of loving words but merely that it came about from Latin (the language of the Roman Empire). With around 270 million speakers, Portuguese is one of the most widely spoken standardized Romance languages in the world today.

Detailed explanation-5: -Italian is widely considered as one of the world’s most romantic languages. This is due to the history and culture of the Italian language combined with its easily recognizable rhythm. Italian is another Romance language that evolved from Latin. It has a long history of beautifully written poetry, prose, and opera.