WebWalloon (/ w ɒ ˈ l uː n /; natively walon; French: wallon) is a Romance language that is spoken in much of Wallonia and (to a very small extent) in Brussels, Belgium; some villages near Givet, northern France; and a clutch of communities in northeastern Wisconsin, U.S. It belongs to the langues d'oïl language family, the most prominent member of which is …

WebLangue d'oïl (in the singular), Oïl dialects and Oïl languages (in the plural) designate the ancient northern Gallo-Romance languages as well as their modern-day descendants. They share many linguistic features, a prominent one being the word oïl for yes.(Oc was and still is the southern word for yes, hence the langue d'oc or Occitan languages).The most …

WebMozarabic, also called Andalusi Romance, refers to the medieval Romance varieties spoken in the Iberian Peninsula in territories controlled by the Islamic Emirate of Córdoba and its successors. They were the common tongue for the majority of the population in Muslim Iberia initially; however, over time, these varieties receded in front of Andalusi Arabic in Al …

WebFrench (français or langue française [lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages.French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul.Its closest relatives are the other langues …

WebProvençal (/ ˌ p r ɒ v ɒ̃ ˈ s ɑː l /, also UK: /-s æ l /, US: / ˌ p r oʊ-,-v ə n-/; French: provençal [pʁɔvɑ̃sal], locally [pχɔvãⁿˈsalə]; Occitan: provençau or prouvençau [pʀuvenˈsaw]) is a Romance language, either considered as a variety of Occitan or a separate language, spoken by people in Provence and parts of Drôme.Historically, the term Provençal has …

WebThe Aromanian language (armãneashti, armãneashte, armãneashci, armãneashce or rrãmãneshti), also known as Macedo-Romanian or Vlach, is an Eastern Romance language, similar to Megleno-Romanian, Istro-Romanian and Romanian, spoken in Southeastern Europe.Its speakers are called Aromanians or Vlachs (a broader term and …

WebName History of the modern term. The name Occitan comes from the term lenga d'òc ("language of òc "), òc being the Occitan word for yes. While the term would have been in use orally for some time after the decline of Latin, as far as historical records show, the Italian medieval poet Dante was the first to have recorded the term lingua d'oc in writing. …

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 …

WebPortuguese is spoken in a number of African countries and is the official language in six African countries: Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe and Equatorial Guinea.There are Portuguese-speaking communities in most countries of Southern Africa, a mixture of Portuguese settlers and Angolans and …

WebThe official language of the Netherlands is Dutch, spoken by almost all people in the Netherlands.Dutch is also spoken and official in Aruba, Bonaire, Belgium, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten and Suriname.It is a West Germanic, Low Franconian language that originated in the Early Middle Ages (c. 470) and was standardised in the …