Romance languages
French, Spanish, Italian
Romance languages are the family of languages descended from Latin, including Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian.
The name comes from their origin in the language of Rome, not from any association with love or romantic feelings.
Spanish and Italian are both Romance languages, which is why they sound similar.
Of or from Paris's nation
- SpanishLanguage of Iberia
- ItalianOf or from Rome's country
- PortugueseOf a western Iberian nation
- RomanianPerson from Bucharest's country
Catalan · Galician · Sardinian · Corsican · Sicilian · Neapolitan · Venetian · Lombard
Body of written works
- operaTheatrical art combining song
- poetryMetrical literary composition
- telenovelasLatin American melodramatic serials
- cinemaMotion picture theater
Don Quixote · Dante · troubadours · fado · tango · bossa nova · flamenco · Renaissance
Standard Western letter system
- Indo-EuropeanVast language family
- Iberian PeninsulaSouthwestern European landmass
- GaulRoman-era Western Europe
- DaciaAncient Carpathian kingdom
Verb form variation system
- subjunctiveVerb mood expressing unreality
- verb tensesForms showing time
- articlesWritten works or items
- agreementShared position between parties
mood · aspect · auxiliary verbs · copula · diminutives
Words from common origin
- false friendsDeceptive cross-language word pairs
- DuolingoLanguage-learning software
- immersionState of being submerged
- pronunciationManner of speaking words
Sound routed through nostrils
- diphthongsCombined vowel sounds
- liaisonConnector between groups
- elisionDropped sounds in speech
- prosodyStudy of verse rhythm
French
Of or from Paris's nation
- SpanishLanguage of Iberia
- ItalianOf or from Rome's country
- PortugueseOf a western Iberian nation
Romanian · Catalan · Galician · Sardinian · Corsican · Sicilian · Neapolitan · Venetian · Lombard · Ladino
literature
Body of written works
- operaTheatrical art combining song
- poetryMetrical literary composition
- telenovelasLatin American melodramatic serials
cinema · Don Quixote · Dante · troubadours · fado · tango · bossa nova · flamenco · Renaissance · Cervantes
Latin alphabet
Standard Western letter system
- Indo-EuropeanVast language family
- Iberian PeninsulaSouthwestern European landmass
- GaulRoman-era Western Europe
conjugation
Verb form variation system
- subjunctiveVerb mood expressing unreality
- verb tensesForms showing time
- articlesWritten works or items
agreement · mood · aspect · auxiliary verbs · copula · diminutives
cognates
Words from common origin
- false friendsDeceptive cross-language word pairs
- DuolingoLanguage-learning software
- immersionState of being submerged
pronunciation · polyglot · fluency · Rosetta Stone · language exchange
nasalization
Sound routed through nostrils
- diphthongsCombined vowel sounds
- liaisonConnector between groups
- elisionDropped sounds in speech
- languagelanguage, word, words, grammar, spelling
- languagesEnglish, Arabic, Chinese, German, French
- Latin HeritageLatin roots, Latin alphabet, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
- language groupsMandarin speakers, heritage speakers, bilingual communities, bilinguals, bilingual community
- left-to-rightEnglish, French, German, Spanish, Italian
- grammatical gendermasculine, feminine, neuter, gender markers, die