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The Orbis Latinus based List of Romance Languages & Dialects
with Number of Speakers and Areas of Distribution page has a
great list of Romance languages as well as where they are used.
http://www.orbilat.com/General_Survey/List_of_Romance_Languages.html
Aragonese or High Aragonese (Aragonés, Altoaragonés, Fabla
Aragonesa, Patués).
Aranese (Aranés, Aranese, Aranais, Gascon, Aranese Occitan).
Arumanian or Macedo-Rumanian (Armina).
Asturian (Bable).
Auvergnat (Auvernhas, Auverne, Occitan).
Calo or Iberian Romani (Calão, Gitano).
Catalan or Catalonian or Catalan-Valencian-Balear (Catalá,
Bacaves).
Corsican (Corso, Corsu, Corse, Corsi).
Emilian-Romagnol (Emiliano-Romagnolo, Emiliano, Sammarinese).
Extremaduran (Extremeño, Ehtremeñu, Cahtuo).
Fala or Galaico-Extremaduran (A Fala De Xalima, "Chapurreau").
Franco-Provençal
French (Français).
Friulian or Frioulian or Priulian (Furlan, Frioulan, Friulano).
Galician (Galego, Gallego).
Gascon (Occitan).
Istro-Rumanian.
Italian (Italiano).
Judaeo-Italian (Italkian).
Ladin (Dolomite, Ladino).
Ladino (Sephardic, Judaeo-Spanish, Judesmo, Dzhudezmo).
Languedocien (Lengadoucian, Languedoc, Langadoc, Occitan, Occitani).
Ligurian (Ligure).
Limousin (Lemosin, Occitan).
Lombard (Lombardo).
Megleno-Rumanian or Meglenitic (Meglenite).
Mirandês (Mirandesa).
Mozarabic (Mozárabe).
Neapolitan-Calabrese (Napolitano-Calabrese).
Occitan (Provençal, Prouvençau, Occitan).
Piedmontese (Piemontese).
Portuguese (Português).
Rumanian or Romanian or Daco-Rumanian (Român).
Sardinian (Central) or Logudorian (Logudorese, Sard, Sardarese).
Sardinian (Northeastern) or Gallurian (Gallurese).
Sardinian (Northwestern) or Sassarian (Sassarese).
Sardinian (South) or Campidanian (Sardu, Campidanese, Campidese).
Shuadit or Judeo-Provençal (Judeo-Comtadine).
Sicilian (Siciliano).
Spanish or Castilian (Español, Castellano).
Venetan (Vèneto).
Zarphatic or Judaeo-French.
We pick up a few more Romance languages at the ATLAS of
the LANGUAGES of the WORLD.
http://ipsas.freeyellow.com/alw_rom_list.htm
Old French
Romantsch-Grischun [also known as rhaeto-romance]
Istriot
Tuscan-Italian
Median Italian
Southern Italian
Extreme Southern Italian
Dalmation
Greenspun.com brings us another Romance language.
http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001FUS
Padanian {also known as Northern Italian]
Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia has the following
definition of what a Romance language is and a few
more Romance languages to add to the list.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages
"The Romance languages are a subfamily of the Italic
languages, the result of the vulgar Latin spoken by
the common people evolving in different areas after
the break-up of the Roman Empire. "
Eonaviegan (a Galician dialect with some traits of Asturian)
Leonese
Valon
Picard
Cajun French
Rhaetian variants
Northen African (extinct by the 15th century)
Macedoromanian
This Encyclopædia Britannica Online Article further
defines the Romance languages.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=118108&tocid=0&query=romance%20languages&ct=
"[G]roup of related languages all derived from Vulgar
Latin within historical times and forming a subgroup of
the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family.
The major languages of the family include French, Italian,
Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian, all national languages."
The "Sprachlehrer's Wonderful World of Language" tells
us about the evolution of the German language.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atrium/3993/germanics/grm_linguistics.htm
"The Germanic languages is a subfamily of the Indo-European
family of languages, which were spoken by about 420 million
people in many parts of the world (chiefly in Europe and the
Western Hemisphere). All the modern Germanic languages are
closely related; moreover, they become progressively closer
grammatically and lexically when traced back to the earliest
records. This suggests that they all derive from a still
earlier common ancestor, which is traditionally referred
to as Proto-Germanic and which is believed to have broken
from the other Indo-European languages before 500 B.C.
Although no writing in Proto-Germanic has survived, the
language has been substantially reconstructed by using
the oldest records that exist of the Germanic tongue."
The following About.com Ancient/Classical History article
by N.S. Gill tells us when the Roman Empire ended.
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa061599.htm
"Edward Gibbon's 476 [A.D.] date for the fall of Rome is
conventionally acceptable ..."
So the German language was formed prior (by around 1,000
years) to the fall of the Roman Empire, and independent
of the "vulgar Latin spoken by the common people" and as
such is not considered a Romance Language.
Search Strategy:
Searched on Google with the keywords: "romance languages" list
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Search on Google with the keywords: evolution "german language"
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Searched on Google with the keywords: end "roman empire" dates
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If you need any clarifcation, feel free to ask.
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