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Which major languages belong to the Romance language family?
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Romance languages
Distribution of Romance languages in Europe.
The Romance languages are a group of related languages derived from Vulgar Latin that form a subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family.12
The major national languages belonging to this family include:
In addition to these major languages, Catalan holds significant political and cultural importance. Other languages within the family, which may have less current political or literary prominence, include Occitan, Sardinian, Rhaetian dialects, and the extinct Dalmatian language.2