Latin (demonym)

The Latin peoples, also known as Romance peoples, are those European linguistic-cultural groups (and their cultural descendants all over the world) that speak Romance languages and mostly inhabit Latin Europe. The Romance languages descend from Vulgar Latin.

The European Latin peoples include:

European countries with a Romance language as main official language (turquoise) or co-official language (dark green).

Romance languages, 20th c.

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v • d • e Romance-speaking nations of Europe
Andorra · Belgium¹ · France · Italy · Luxembourg¹ · Monaco · Moldova · Portugal · Romania · San Marino · Spain · Switzerland¹ · Vatican City ¹ Also has official non-Romance languages at national level.	Image:LatinEurope.gif

v • d • e Romance languages
Southern Romance languages: Corsican (Gallurese) · Sassarese · Sardinian (Campidanese, Logudorese)
Eastern Romance languages: Romanian (Moldovan, Vlach) · Aromanian · Megleno-Romanian · Istro-Romanian
Italo-Dalmatian Romance languages: Italian (Central Italian, Florentine, Tuscan, Romanesco, Judeo-Italian) · Calabrian · Dalmatian† · Istriot · Neapolitan · Sicilian
Western Romance languages main: Catalan (Balearic, Valencian) · French (incl. Zarphatic†) · Portuguese-Galician (Fala, Galician, Portuguese) · Spanish (Castilian) (incl. Ladino) other Western Aragonese (Mozarabic†) · Franco-Provençal (Bressan, Dauphinois, Forézien, Franc-Comtois, Genevois, Jurassien, Lyonnais, Savoyard, Vaudois) · Astur-Leonese (Asturian, Cantabrian, Extremaduran, Leonese, Mirandese) · Burgundian (Franc-Comtois) · Emiliano-Romagnolo · Francien · Gallo · Ligurian (Genoese, Monégasque) · Lombard (Eastern, Western) · Lorrain · Norman · Occitan (Auvergnat, Aupenc, Gascon (Aranese, Béarnais), Languedocien, Limousin, Provençal (Mentonasque, Niçard)) · Picard (Champenois, Chti/Chtimi, Rouchi) · Piedmontese · Poitevin-Saintongeais · Rhaeto-Romance (Friulian, Ladin, Romansh) · Venetian · Walloon
denotes Extinct (†); bolded denotes languages with more than 5 million speakers