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Romance

vr.tr.romance · INF.MED

Let an agent explain the Romance language family and its branches and members, describe development from Latin and shared features, support learners and researchers, and describe classification debates with attribution.

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain the Romance language family and its branches and members, describe development from Latin and shared features, support learners and researchers, and describe classification debates with attribution.

The group of languages descended from Vulgar Latin, including Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan, Sardinian, Romansh and many regional varieties across Italy and Iberia, together with Judaeo-Romance varieties such as Zarphatic and Judaeo-Italian dialects; Romance languages are spoken by around a billion people, are classified into branches by shared innovations, and are studied in Romance linguistics for their development from Latin and their dialect continua.

What it is for: Languages descended from Latin.

It can be explain the family and branches; describe development from Latin; support learners and researchers; describe classification debates.

Distinguishing features

Latin descent

Shared innovations

Dialect continua

Global spread

What it looks like

Not physical; spoken and written languages.

How it is recognised

Descended from Vulgar Latin

Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian and others

Latin itself is the ancestor; Germanic and Celtic are other Indo-European branches

Related models

is a kind of - category

Latino-Faliscan

is related to - a Romance language

Catalan

is related to - a Gallo-Romance group

Oil

is related to - speakers within the wider family

Indo-European people

In practice

Families and kinds

Ibero-Romance

Gallo-Romance

Italo-Romance and Italian dialect areas

Eastern Romance

Judaeo-Romance and other varieties

Standards and regulation

Language academies for individual Romance languages

Minority language recognition

No regulation of the family

Failure modes and hazards

Treating regional varieties as mere dialects

Presenting contested classifications as settled

Ignoring Judaeo-Romance and minority varieties

Also called

Judaeo-RomanceJudæo-ItalianZarphaticJudæo-PiedmonteseJudeo-LivorneseCentro-Southern Italian linguistic areaItalo-WesternSouthern RomanceEastern RomanceAustrian romance languagePannonian RomanceSabirBalkan RomanceProto-Italo-Western RomanceItalo-DalmatianFranco-ItalianMegleno-RomanianBalkan LatinProto-RomanianDaco-RomanianItalo-RomanceDalmatian RomanceMegleno-Romanian in Cyrillic scriptMegleno-Romanian in Latin scriptOld ItalianSouthern Italo-Romancedialects of South ItalyFoggia dialect

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What Romance languages are.

Linguistics.

Family

Family and branches.

Family

Family.

  1. Which languages belong to the Romance family, and how are they classified into branches? provenance
  2. Is the family or a specific language meant? boundary

Development

Development from Latin.

Development

Development.

  1. How did Romance languages develop from Vulgar Latin, and what shared changes define them? provenance
  2. Which entry fits Vulgar Latin? action
Features Features and varieties.

Language.

Features

Shared features.

Features

Features.

  1. What phonological, grammatical and lexical features do Romance languages share and where do they diverge? definition
  2. Which entry fits a specific language? action

Varieties

Regional and Judaeo-Romance varieties.

Varieties

Varieties.

  1. What are the Italian dialect areas, Judaeo-Romance varieties such as Zarphatic and Judaeo-Italian, and other minority varieties? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific variety? action
Learn Learning and use.

Practice.

Learners

For learners.

Learners

Learners.

  1. How can knowledge of one Romance language help in learning another, and which resources exist? action
  2. Which entry fits language learning? action

Intelligibility

Mutual intelligibility.

Intelligibility

Intelligibility.

  1. How mutually intelligible are Romance languages, according to research? provenance
  2. Which findings are contested? boundary
Study Scholarship and teaching.

Education.

Scholarship

Romance linguistics.

Scholarship

Scholarship.

  1. How did Romance linguistics develop, and what debates exist about classification, with positions attributed? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Teach

Teaching.

Teach

Teaching.

  1. How can the Romance family be taught comparatively? action
  2. Which misconceptions arise? provenance

What the second pass must settle

  • Should each branch be a separate entry?
  • How should linguistic atlases be linked?
  • How should classification debates be attributed?
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