" ( from " Romance in the Roaring Forties ")

It eventually became used for the descendant languages of Latin ( the Romance languages ) and then for most of the other languages of Europe.

In one opinion, this pattern is clearly present among the modern Romance tongues, with Italian and Spanish having a high degree of mutual comprehensibility, which neither language shares with French, despite some claiming that both languages are genetically closer to French than to each other: In fact, French-Italian and French-Spanish relative mutual incomprehensibility is due to French having undergone more rapid and more pervasive phonological change than have Spanish and Italian, not to real or imagined distance in genetic relationship.

While the soft value of ⟨ g ⟩ varies in different Romance languages ( in French and Portuguese, in Catalan, in Italian and Romanian, and in Castilian Spanish, and in other dialects of Spanish ), in all except Romanian and Italian, soft ⟨ g ⟩ has the same pronunciation as the ⟨ j ⟩.

Unlike most other Romance languages, Italian retains Latin's contrast between short and long consonants.

Unlike most other Romance languages, Italian retains Latin's contrast between short and long consonants.

In Italy, almost all Romance languages spoken as the vernacular ( other than standard Italian and other unrelated, non-Italian languages ) are termed " Italian dialects "; the only exceptions are Sardinian and Friulan, which the law recognises as official regional languages.

By contrast, so far as is known, the Basque language is an absolute isolate: It has not been shown to be related to any other language despite numerous attempts, though it has been influenced by neighboring Romance languages.

This emphasis, on languages other than Romance languages, also had the effect of reducing the universality of his translated works and original academic writings, as Latin was the lingua franca in both Iberia and Europe ; yet Alfonso never desisted in his promotion of the Castilian vernacular.

This use of the expression Latin derives from the cultural distinctions between the Romance language countries of modern-day Italy, Spain, France and Portugal ; and other European nations, including the Germanic countries of Northwestern and Central Europe.

Its other principal members are Romanian, Greek and Albanian, all of which belong to different genetic branches of the Indo-European family of languages ( Romanian is a Romance language, while Greek and Albanian each comprise their own separate branches ).

Jacobus de Voragine, compiling his Legenda Aurea ( Golden Legend ) before the competition arose, characterized Mary Magdalene as the emblem of penitence, washing the feet of Jesus with her copious tears ( although it is now believed that Mary of Bethany was the woman known for washing or anointing the feet of Jesus ) protectress of pilgrims to Jerusalem, daily lifting by angels at the meal hour in her fasting retreat and many other miraculous happenings in the genre of Romance, ending with her death in the oratory of Saint Maximin, all disingenuously claimed to have been drawn from the histories of Hegesippus and of Josephus.

Because the geographical territory in which Occitan is spoken is surrounded by regions in which other Romance languages are used, external influences could have influenced its origin and development.

To compare with the historically known language families such as Romance, Germanic, Slavic or Arabic entails considering the linguistic process that explains other cases.

It is closely related to French, Occitan, and Lombard, as well as the other Romance languages to a lesser extent.

Eastern Romance languages like the other branches of Romance languages descends from Vulgar Latin, adopted in Dacia by a process of Romanization during early centuries AD.

Rhyming in the Celtic Languages takes a drastically different course from most other Western rhyming schemes despite strong contact with the Romance and English patterns.

Latin G and K before, were not palatalized in it, in stark contrast with all other Romance languages.

Perhaps the most interesting feature of Logudorian is that, due to the particular history of the area, it has suffered very little contamination and has changed very slowly from Vulgar Latin in comparison to other Latin languages, even though in terms of vocabulary it is not as close to its Latin ancestor as Italian, the most Latin of Romance languages.

All dialects of Sardinian feature archaic phonetic features when compared to other Romance languages.

* Absence of diphthongizations found in other Romance languages.

The country also had significant populations of Hungarians, Roma, Bulgarians, Ethnic Macedonians, Romanians and other eastern Romance peoples ( including Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians and Vlachs ), plus dozens of other Slavic peoples, namely Bosniaks, Croats, Bunjevci, Šokci, Goranci, Janjevci, Rusins, Slovaks, Muslims by nationality and Yugoslavs.

In 1967, he began writing and illustrating full stories for various DC Comics titles, including Angel and the Ape, Inferior Five, Young Romance, the company's Jerry Lewis comic book, and for various horror anthologies.

Most scholars today regard this story as a literary tale inspired by the Romance stories that were popular at the courts by the time Heimskringla was written.

One of the greatest achievements of Romance of the Three Kingdoms is the extreme complexity of its stories and characters.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms, like the dramas and folk stories of its day, features Liu Bei and his kingdom as the protagonist ; hence the depiction of the people in Shu-Han was glorified.

As one of the best known Chinese historical figures throughout East Asia, Guan's true life stories have largely given way to fictionalized ones, mostly found in the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms or passed down the generations, in which his deeds and moral qualities have been lionized.

In his childhood, he learned to appreciate Old French romances as poems and stories, and this early impulse for the study of Romance literature was placed on a solid basis by courses of study at Bonn ( 1856 ) and at the École des chartes.

The stories forming the bulk of Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin are thought to have been developed by many independent storytellers.

As a young man he was said to be an avid reader, and especially liked the stories of the Forty-seven Ronin and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

* List of fictitious stories in Romance of the Three Kingdoms

During this time, he drew two pirate-themed one-shot stories, called " Romance Dawn ", which would debut in Akamaru Jump and Weekly Jump in late 1996-early 1997.

* Romance stories from old Japan, pre-1919 — Free to read and full text search.

The title and plot are a play on the titles of romance comic books with their overwrought love stories — very popular in earlier decades — such as " True Life Secrets ," " True Stories of Romance ," " Romance Tales ," " Untamed Love " and " Strange Love.

The three short stories which replaced them in The Crime Wave at Blandings were " Tried in the Furnace " ( from the UK edition of Young Men in Spats ), and " All's Well With Bingo " and " Romance at Droitgate Spa " ( both of which appeared in the UK edition of Eggs, Beans and Crumpets ).

Romance films are love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theaters and on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate involvement of the main characters and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage.

Luo Guanzhong, the author of the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, fleshed out the stories for each capture, inventing many fictional people such as Meng You, Lady Zhurong, and King Mulu.

In addition, many classical Chinese novels and stories, such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin and Journey to the West were adapted very early into dramatic pieces.

Fifi is also far more versatile than her Looney Tunes counterpart, appearing in stories that do not entirely revolve around enrapture with Romance.

** Dead Romance ( re-issue of the Virgin title, includes short stories " Toy Story " and " Grass ")

The Lowest Rung ( 1908 ) and The Romance of his Life ( 1921 ) were collections of stories, the latter, her final book, dedicated to the essayist and critic Percy Lubbock.

* William Trevor's collection of stories The Ballroom of Romance is published.

* List of fictitious stories in Romance of the Three Kingdoms

The first four titles were later joined by Hulk, The Titans ( reprinting the 1960s stories of Captain America, Thor and Iron Man ), Marvel Classic Comics ( featuring graphic versions of novels ), Conan, and Young Romance.

" Despite the popularity of this popular meaning of Romance, other works are still, occasionally, referred to as romances because of their uses of other elements descended from the medieval romance, or from the Romantic movement: larger-than-life heroes and heroines, drama and adventure, marvels that may become fantastic, themes of honor and loyalty, or fairy-tale-like stories and story settings.