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Rebecca Posner
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Professor of Romance Languages, University of Oxford. Author of The Romance Languages: A Linguistic Introduction and others; editor of Trends in Romance Linguistics and Philology (5 vol.).

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World map highlighting countries where French is an official language in dark pink, including France, much of central and western Africa, parts of Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, Madagascar, and several island territories. Lighter pink indicates regions where French is widely spoken but not official, such as parts of North Africa and Southeast Asia.
French language
French language, a Romance language that developed out of the variety of Vulgar Latin spoken in northern and central Transalpine Gaul. French is an official language of more than 25 countries. In France and Corsica about 56 million individuals use it as their first language, in Canada more than 7.7…
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Vulgar Latin
Portuguese language
Romance languages
Catalan language
Spanish language
Latin language
Romanian language
Occitan language
Sardinian language
Rhaetian dialects
Publications (1)
The Romance Languages
The Romance Languages (September 1996)
By Rebecca Posner
What is a Romance language? How is one Romance language related to others? How did they all evolve? And what can they tell us about language in general? In this comprehensive survey Rebecca Posner, a distinguished Romance specialist, examines this group of languages from a wide variety of perspectives. Her analysis combines philological expertise with insights drawn from modern theoretical linguistics, both synchronic and diachronic. She relates linguistic features to historical and sociological...
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