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Romance languages

group of Indo-European languages, direct descendants of Vulgar Latin
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Romance languages

Summary

Romance languages is a language family[1]. It ranks in the top 0.2% of language_family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,304 views/month, #2 of 1,012).[2]

Key Facts

  • Romance languages's instance of is recorded as language family[3].
  • Romance languages is a type of Italic[4].
  • Romance languages's Commons category is recorded as Romance languages[5].
  • Romance languages comprises Italo-Western[6].
  • Romance languages comprises Eastern Romance[7].
  • Romance languages's has cause is recorded as Vulgar Latin[8].
  • Romance languages's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Romance languages[9].
  • Romance languages's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[10].
  • Romance languages's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[11].
  • Romance languages's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • Romance languages's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • Romance languages's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14].
  • Romance languages's described by source is recorded as Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • Romance languages's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • Romance languages's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[17].
  • Romance languages's topic has template is recorded as Template:Romance languages[18].
  • Romance languages's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/romance-languages[19].
  • Romance languages's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Romance'}[20].
  • Romance languages's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Romanisch'}[21].
  • Romance languages's different from is recorded as Gallo-Roman[22].
  • Romance languages's different from is recorded as Romani[23].
  • Romance languages's different from is recorded as Rhaeto-Romance[24].
  • Romance languages's studied by is recorded as Romance studies[25].
  • Romance languages's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[26].

Why It Matters

Romance languages ranks in the top 0.2% of language_family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,304 views/month, #2 of 1,012).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 125 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

Related Entities

Hugo Schuchardt Romance studies

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nci thesaurus id → C161845
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  2. 20d ago · Mahir256 · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
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    Described by source → Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +5
    Subclass of → Italic
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