Romance languages

After the break-up of the Roman Empire, the vulgar Latin (meaning the Latin spoken by the common people) began to evolve differently in different areas. The Romance languages are the results of this process, and form a subfamily of the Italic languages.

Italian group

• Sardinian
• Italian
• Corsican?
• Sicilian?
• [Southern Italian languages]?

Ibero-Romance group

• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Galego
• Catalan
• Aragonese
• Judaeo-Spanish (Ladino)

Gallo-Romance group

• Romansh
• French (langue d'oeil)
• Occitan (langue d'oc)
• [Northern Italian languages]?

Eastern group

• Romanian
• Aromunian?
• Istroromanian?
• Meglentian?
• Dacoromanian?
• Macedoromanian

And, of course, the classical Latin language that was spoken conservatively as a lingua franca throughout the Middle Ages is still learned by some.