WebLigurian or Genoese (locally called zeneise or zeneize) is a Gallo-Italic language spoken primarily in the territories of the former Republic of Genoa, now comprising the area of Liguria in Northern Italy, parts of the Mediterranean coastal zone of France, Monaco (where it is called Monegasque), the village of Bonifacio in Corsica, and in the villages of …

WebVenetian or Venetan (łéngua vèneta [ˈ(l)eŋɡwa ˈvɛneta] or vèneto) is a Romance language spoken natively in the northeast of Italy, mostly in the Veneto region, where most of the five million inhabitants can understand it. It is sometimes spoken and often well understood outside Veneto: in Trentino, Friuli, the Julian March, Istria, and some towns of Slovenia …

WebLigurian retains the final -o, being the exception in Gallo-Romance. The Rhaeto-Romance languages, including Romansh, and Friulian, and Ladin dialects. ... The Romance language most widely spoken natively today is Spanish, followed by Portuguese, French, Italian and Romanian, ...

WebItalian (italiano [itaˈljaːno] or lingua italiana [ˈliŋɡwa itaˈljaːna]) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.Together with Sardinian, Italian is the least divergent language from Latin. Spoken by about 85 million people (2022), Italian is an official language in Italy, Switzerland …

WebIstriot is a Romance language currently only found in Istria.Its classification remained mostly unclear, but in 2017 it was classified by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History with the Dalmatian language in the Dalmatian Romance subgroup, yet due to the specificities of the language, which has always had a very limited number of …

WebFriulian (/ f r i ˈ uː l i ə n / free-OO-lee-ən) or Friulan (natively furlan or marilenghe; Italian: friulano; Austrian German: Furlanisch; Slovene: furlanščina) is a Romance language belonging to the Rhaeto-Romance family, spoken in the Friuli region of northeastern Italy.Friulian has around 600,000 speakers, the vast majority of whom also speak Italian.It …

WebBavarian (German: Bairisch [ˈbaɪrɪʃ] (), Bavarian: Boarisch) or alternately Austro-Bavarian, is a West Germanic language, part of the Upper German family, together with Alemannic and East Franconian.. Bavarian is spoken by approximately 12 million people in an area of around 125,000 square kilometres (48,000 sq mi), making it the largest of all German …

WebBasque is geographically surrounded by Romance languages but is a language isolate unrelated to them, and indeed, to any other language in the world. It is the last remaining descendant of one of the pre-Indo-European languages of Prehistoric Europe. Consequently, the prehistory of the Basque language may not be reconstructible by …

WebThe Eastern Romance languages are a group of Romance languages.Today, the group consists of the Daco-Romance subgroup, which comprises the Romanian language (Daco-Romanian), Aromanian language and two other related minor languages, Megleno-Romanian, and Istro-Romanian.. Some classifications also include the extinct Dalmatian …

WebNorman or Norman French (Normaund, French: Normand, Guernésiais: Normand, Jèrriais: Nouormand) is a Romance language which can be classified as one of the Oïl languages along with French, Picard and Walloon.The name "Norman French" is sometimes used to describe not only the Norman language, but also the administrative languages of Anglo …