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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The French, Spanish, and Italian languages have many similarities. From which ancient language, spoken by the Romans, did these modern languages develop?
A
Latin
B
Greek
C
Arabic
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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: -Ethnologue came up with lexical similarity coefficients for each of the Romance languages, or quantifiable percentages that tell you how similar they are. According to this metric, French and Italian are 89 percent similar, which makes them as similar as Spanish and Portuguese.

Detailed explanation-3: -French and Latin share many similarities, including their grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. Both languages use inflection to indicate grammatical functions. Both languages have subject-verb-object word order. Both languages have a rich system of tenses and moods.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to many sources, Italian is the closest language to Latin in terms of vocabulary. According to the Ethnologue, Lexical similarity is 89% with French, 87% with Catalan, 85% with Sardinian, 82% with Spanish, 80% with Portuguese, 78% with Ladin, 77% with Romanian.

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