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The Romance languages are important because they form such a large branch of the Indo-European language family. One of them (French) also managed to heavily influence the development of English, making it the odd conglomerate language that it is today. The other reason Romance languages are important has to do with what the countries that speak them spent several centuries doing--most of the world that has ever been colonized speaks some Romance language. So the languages are in a position of political power thanks to the fact that so much of the world speaks them.

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