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Romance

group of Indo-European languages, direct descendants of Vulgar Latin
Language language_family Q19814
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Summary

Romance is a language family[1]. Romance ranks in the top 0.2% of language family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (26,215 views/month, #2 of 1,012).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: Latino-Faliscan[3]
  • Commons category: Romance languages[4]
  • Has part(s): Italo-Western[5], Eastern Romance[6], Southern Romance[7], British Latin[8], Pannonian Romance[9]
  • Has cause: Vulgar Latin[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Romance languages[11]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[12], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[13], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[16], Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[17], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[18], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[19]
  • Topic has template: Template:Romance languages[20]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/romance-languages[21]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C161845[22]
  • Short name: Romance[23], Romanisch[24]
  • Different from: Gallo-Roman[25], Romani[26], Rhaeto-Romance[27]
  • Studied by: Romance studies[28]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[29]

Why It Matters

Romance has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] Romance is known by 159 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Related Entities

Hugo Schuchardt Romance studies

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · ButterflyOFF · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Pronunciation audio → Kab-Q19814-Tutlayin tilatinin-ButterflyOFF.ogg
    Sitelink count → 161
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'ang', 'ar', 'arc', 'arz', 'ast', 'av', 'az', 'azb', '
    Claims rich → —
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Pronunciation audio: Kab-Q19814-Tutlayin tilatinin-ButterflyOFF.ogg, Added pronunciation recorded via Wiki-Say-It! 0.2.10"
  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1gbpvJ, 4dC4tZ
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 15w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → romance-languages
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: romance-languages, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289964646|romance languages (#289964646)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Har"
  4. 16w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1gbpvJ, 4dC4tZ
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/37444|batch #37444]]: Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) (P14541) 2"
  5. 17w ago · Putnik · 2026-06-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id → romanu-kalbos
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id: romanu-kalbos"
  6. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) → Italo-Western, Eastern Romance, Southern Romance +2
    Svkkl authority id → h0009247-romanske-jazyky
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0009247-romanske-jazyky, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  7. 20w ago · Arctic Circle System · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → Latino-Faliscan
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Subclass of: Latino-Faliscan"
  8. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nci thesaurus id → C161845
    National library of korea id → KSH1998030578
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 2888, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  9. 24w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Has parts → —
    Described by source → Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +5
    Subclass of → Latino-Faliscan
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Umls cui: C0574317"
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