Romance languages

After the break-up of the Roman Empire, the vulgar Latin 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

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.