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The name Romance Language refers to languages spoken in the Romania, a historic cultural zone in Europe in which Latin and its dialects were spoken during the Roman Empire and afterwards. At the time of the empires after the sixteenth century, these languages went global: French is spoken in France, Canada, some Caribbean nations; Spanish is spoken in Spain, Latin America, Africa; the same happens with Portugese, spoken in Portugal, Angola, Brazil, and Mozambique. Irrespective of where these langauges are spoken today, all languages originating in Latin and its dialects are considered Romance Languages. As members of the same family these languages share common morphological and syntactic features. SOME of these languages are Romanian, Italian, Sicilian, Romanic or Rhetic, French, Catalan, Aranés, Occitan, Galego-Portuguese, Spanish, Astur-Leones. In some instances it is difficult to determine whether we are facing a different language or a dialect variation (i.e., Catalan, Valenciano, and Mallorquí are considered the same language by some, but different languages by others).

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