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

The German dialects of South Tyrol have been influenced by local Romance languages, in particular with many loan words from Italian, and Ladin.

* Baltic Sea is used in English ; in the Baltic languages Latvian ( Baltijas jūra ) and Lithuanian ( Baltijos jūra ); in Latin ( Mare Balticum ) and the Romance languages French ( Mer Baltique ), Italian ( Mar Baltico ), Portuguese ( Mar Báltico ), Romanian ( Marea Baltică ) and Spanish ( Mar Báltico ); in Greek ( Βαλτική Θάλασσα ); in Albanian ( Deti Balltik ); in the Slavic languages Polish ( Morze Bałtyckie or Bałtyk ), Czech ( Baltské moře or Balt ), Croatian ( Baltičko more ), Slovenian ( Baltsko morje ), Bulgarian ( Baltijsko More ( Балтийско море ), Kashubian ( Bôłt ), Macedonian ( Балтичко Море / Baltičko More ), Ukrainian ( Балтійське море (" Baltijs ' ke More "), Belarusian ( Балтыйскае мора (" Baltyjskaje Mora "), Russian ( Балтийское море (" Baltiyskoye Morye ") and Serbian ( Балтичко море / Baltičko more ); in the Hungarian language ( Balti-tenger ); and also in Basque ( Itsaso Baltikoa )

Though geographically surrounded by Indo-European Romance languages, Basque is classified as a language isolate.

Through the long contact with Romance languages, Basque adopted a sizable number of Romance words.

Historically, Latin or Romance languages have been the official languages in this region.

Cohabitation with the Scandinavians resulted in a significant grammatical simplification and lexical enrichment of the Anglo-Frisian core of English ; the later Norman occupation led to the grafting onto that Germanic core of a more elaborate layer of words from the Romance branch of the European languages.

* European Central Bank in some Romance languages ( e. g., Banco Central Europeo )

In turn, the classical languages continued, Latin evolved into the Romance languages and Ancient Greek into Modern Greek and its dialects.

The word horologia ( from the Greek ὡρα, hour, and λέγειν, to tell ) was used to describe all these devices, but the use of this word ( still used in several Romance languages ) for all timekeepers conceals from us the true nature of the mechanisms.

In the Romance languages, the articles and direct and indirect object personal pronoun forms are clitics.

According to most criteria, in fact, the pronominal clitics in most of the Romance languages have already developed into affixes.

" Ballista " is still the root word for crossbow in Romance languages such as Italian ( balestra ).

Linguistic map representing a Tree model of the Romance languages based on the comparative method.

For example, Spanish and French both come from Latin and therefore belong to the same family, the Romance languages.

In publications of 1647 and 1654, Marcus van Boxhorn first described a rigid methodology for historical linguistic comparisons and proposed the existence of an Indo-European proto-language ( which he called " Scythian ") unrelated to Hebrew, but ancestral to Germanic, Greek, Romance, Persian, Sanskrit, Slavic, Celtic and Baltic languages.

This more precise usage enables one to distinguish between varieties of a language, such as the French spoken in Nice, France, and local languages distinct from the superordinate language, e. g. Nissart, the traditional native Romance language of Nice, known in French as Niçard.

This point of view sees the modern Romance languages as dialects of Latin, modern Greek as a dialect of Ancient Greek, Tok Pisin as a dialect of English, and Scandinavian languages as dialects of Old Norse.

Aquila is the Latin and Romance language word for eagle and may also refer to:

The war is fought across four dimensions and whole sections of history are blocked off by either side and it is also suggested that events cross into different universes ( such as the events of Dead Romance ).

And Herman's drug habit became public domain: In 1977 for instance the Wild Romance played a gig in a highschool in Almelo, the Christelijk Lyceum ; during the break Brood was caught on the toilet taking heroine or speed ( there are different reports on the type of drug, but it is a wellknown story amongst former students ), the rest of the concert was cancelled, and this also was the last time a rockconcert took place at this school for many years.

Diez's grammar of the Romance languages is founded entirely on its methods, which have also exerted a profound influence on the wider study of the Indo-European languages in general.

Baum also anonymously wrote The Last Egyptian: A Romance of the Nile.

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.

Idol Mahjong Final Romance II, an arcade game which was not an MVS game, was also ported to the Neo Geo CD.

Occitan (; ; ), known also as Lenga d ' òc by its native speakers (; ), is a Romance language spoken in southern France, Italy's Occitan Valleys, Monaco, and Spain's Val d ' Aran: the regions sometimes known unofficially as Occitania.

Alternatively the guan dao is also known as " Chun Qiu Da Dao " or ' Spring Autumn Great Knife ', again probably related to Guan Yu's loyal image depicted in the Ming dynasty novel ' Romance of the Three Kingdoms ', but possibly a Ming author invention.

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.

Among the Romance languages the vocative was preserved in Romanian: it is also visible sometimes, in languages such as Catalan or Portuguese which employ the personal article but drop it in front of vocative forms.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms is also seen as a possible early antecedent, and contains classic close-combat descriptions that were later borrowed by wuxia writers in their works.

Ladin should not be confused with Ladino ( also called Judeo-Spanish ), which is a Romance dialect of Spanish.

Vulgar Latin is sometimes also called colloquial Latin, or Common Romance ( particularly in the late stage ).

Because some of the less familiar Romance languages branched off early from the others ( Sardinian in particular, followed by Romanian and related Eastern Romance languages ), it is also common to reconstruct later stages: e. g. Proto Continental Romance ( after Sardinian branched off ); Proto Italo-Western Romance ( after Sardinian and Romanian branched off ); and Proto Western Romance ( after the branching-off of Sardinian, Romanian, and the central and southern Italian languages, including standard Italian ).

There were also long and short versions of y, representing the rounded vowel in Greek borrowings, which however probably came to be pronounced even before Romance vowel changes started.

Ten years after the admission of the first female students, Elise Richter became the first woman to receive habilitation, becoming professor of Romance Languages in 1907 ; she was also the first female distinguished professor.

Similarly, the Romance languages follow the Greek usage, so that their word for " Saturday " is also a variation on " Sabbath ": the Italian is sabato, the French is samedi, the Spanish and Portuguese is sábado and the Romanian is sâmbătă.

An exception is Portuguese, also a Romance language, which uses the word sexta-feira, meaning " sixth day of liturgical celebration ", derived from the Latin " feria sexta " used in religious texts where it was not allowed to consecrate days to pagan gods.

In Radcliffe ’ s The Romance of the Forest, one may follow the female protagonist, Adeline, through the forest, hidden passages and abbey dungeons, “ without exclaiming, ‘ How these antique towers and vacant courts / chill the suspended soul, till expectation wears the cast of fear !”

In the 14th century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong, Guan Ping was said to have been adopted by Guan Yu when he was seventeen ( Chapter 28 ), as his true father requested to have him follow and assist the renowned general.

Fialho Gouveia, a noted Portuguese television presenter, attended the Romance Philology course at the Faculdade de Letras but dropped out in order to follow a successful career in radio and television.

Both follow the events described in Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and the player can defeat Meng Huo up to seven times.

Systems of Romance is often regarded as the first synthpop album and, as such, it strongly influenced bands that were to follow.

Romance and tragedy follow.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms describes Zuo Ci's fictional attainment of Taoist powers and his subsequent mission to persuade Cao Cao to follow Taoism.

Pointing out that the persons were supernatural or heroic, Dryden linked his work with the genre we would call Romance: " The subject, therefore, being extended beyond the limits of human nature, admits of that sort of marvelous and surprising conduct, which is rejected in other plays ... it would follow of necessity, that the expressions should be lofty, figurative, and majestical.