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LATINIAN LANGUAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The group of languages derived from Latin
Synonyms:
Latinian language; Romance; Romance language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Latinian language" is a kind of...):
Latin (any dialect of the language of ancient Rome)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Latinian language"):
Haitian Creole (a creole language spoken by most Haitians; based on French and various African languages)
Italian (the Romance language spoken in Italy)
French (the Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France)
Portuguese (the Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil)
Galician (a language spoken in Galicia, an Autonomus Community of Spain)
Spanish (the Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain)
Catalan (the Romance language spoken in Catalonia in eastern Spain (related to Spanish and Occitan))
Rhaeto-Romance; Rhaeto-Romanic (Romance dialects spoken in parts of southeastern Switzerland and northern Italy and the Tyrol)
Romanian; Rumanian (an eastern Romance language spoken in Romania)