The Romance Language of French is spoken by 370 million people worldwide. Japanese is unrelated to any other global language and.

• • • The Romance languages (sometimes called the Romanic languages, Latin languages, or Neo-Latin languages) are the modern languages that evolved from between the sixth and ninth centuries and that thus form a branch of the within the. Today, around 800 million people are native speakers worldwide, mainly in, and the, but also elsewhere. Additionally, the major Romance languages have many non-native speakers and are in widespread use as. This is especially the case for French, which is in widespread use throughout,, and the. The five by number of native speakers are (470 million), (250 million), (150 million), (60 million), and (25 million). Because of the difficulty of imposing boundaries on a continuum, various counts of the modern Romance languages are given; for example, Dalby lists 23 based on. The following, more extensive list [ ], includes 35 current, living languages, and one recently extinct language,: •:,,,,,,,; •:,,; •: /,; •:,,; •:,,,; •; •; •:,,,,,, (extinct in 1898); •; •:,,,.

Romance languages in the World French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Romanian are also official languages of the. Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, and Catalan are the official languages of the; and French and Spanish are two of the six official languages of the. Outside Europe,, and are spoken and enjoy official status in various countries that emerged from the respective. Spanish is an official language in nine countries of, home to about half that continent's population; in six countries of (all except ); and in. Dj Acapella S House. In the, it is official in, the, and. In all these countries, is the vernacular language of the majority of the population, giving Spanish the most native speakers of any Romance language. In Africa it is the official language of, but has few native speakers there.