What Makes the Romance Languages Unique (Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, and more!)

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  @riverareyes5408 · 2 years ago

  I grew up thinking that the big 5 were the only romance languages. I'm so happy to have discovered that there's so many more, with communities that are trying to keep them alive.

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• CO

  @coolconner1029 · 2 years ago

  Romanian is the purple sheep of the Romance family

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• EX

  @extravenusiano6352 · 2 years ago

  You forgot some contractions in portuguese, here&apos;s one that a lot of portuguese speakers forget too: <br>a + a = à, a + aquele = àquele

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• SA

  @samuchase14 · 2 years ago

  Fun fact, in Spanish you can also add the article in front of a proper name, but only when refering to friends and it&apos;s pretty informal

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• FA

  @FairyCRat · 2 years ago (edited)

  As an Occitan, I&apos;m glad that my ancestral language was mentioned, even if I don&apos;t speak a word of it unfortunately.<br><br>Also, since I&apos;m also half-Belgian, I gotta mention that Belgian French (as well as Swiss French) doesn&apos;t have the wonky numbers, as they have dedicated words for 70 and 90, and Swiss French does too for 80.

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• WR

  @wrenisprobablyb0red · 2 years ago

  Omg you&apos;re in a romance with a language? I wish you two well 🎉

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• TO

  @tony58300 · 2 years ago

  Spanish also has a neuter gender, it&apos;s pretty similar to Asturian pure neuter, it only applies to abstract nouns and it inflects very similar to the masculine so its usually overlooked, but it can change the meaning of a word, for example:<br>lo pequeño (neuter) (&quot;the smallness&quot; it references to the atribute of being small)<br>el pequeño (masculine) (something/someone masculine who is small)

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• AR

  @artifactU · 2 years ago

  i dont speak a romance language... does that make me... aromantic?

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• AN

  @Anerneq1 · 2 years ago

  As a Sardinian speaker, your segment about Sardinian is very accurate! I am also glad that you mentioned some very important characteristics that many linguistics amateurs on the internet often ignore or don&apos;t speak about (mainly, the fact that Sardinian is not one single unified language and that the difference between dialects impacts phonology, grammar and vocabulary. Many people say that Sardinian is the closest Romance language to Latin because but it still preserves the old unpalatalised C&apos;s and G&apos;s, but this is only true for the Logudorese dialects). Some more characteristics that make Sardinian really unique:<br><br>1) Sardinian is the only language, together with the Balearic dialect of Catalan, whose articles developed from Latin ipse, ipsa. That means that the articles contain an S instead of an L, like in many other Romance languages.<br><br>2) The most important aspect of Sardinian phonology is the so-called paragogic vowel. This is a feature that evolved relatively recently, but it basically means that even if some words might end in a consonant in the written language, they can&apos;t end in that consonant in the spoken language. The phenomenon varies depending on how well you can speak Sardinian (people who speak better Italian than Sardinian, tend to use the paragogic vowel systematically with every word, whereas more proficient speakers only use it in set contexts), but it basically means that you have to repeat the vowel of the preceding syllable at the end of the word. This can be often heard with plural forms:<br><br>&quot;Sa domu&quot; (the house) is pronounced /za domu/<br>&quot;Is domus&quot; (the houses) is pronounced /iz domuzu).<br>Those who can&apos;t write Sardinian (which is many people, also due to the fact there is no standardised written language), often but incorrectly write things like &quot;is domusu&quot; for this reason.

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• RA

  @rainbs2nd · 5 months ago

  The statement that all Romance languages are currently written with the latin alphabet is not fully true because Romanian is still officially written with Cyrillic in Transnistria as &quot;Moldovan&quot;.

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• RI

  @richlisola1 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Should mention that most African Portuguese varieties are closer to European Portuguese than Brazilian

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• PE

  @pedromgt9559 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66vPCHorTBo&amp;t=29">0:29</a> FINALLY someone said the truth!!! Most channels, even big ones, talk about this like Classical and Vulgar Latin were two parallel languages

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