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  1. Branch of Indo-European languages descended
  2. from the Latin of the Roman Empire (`popular'
  3. or `vulgar' as opposed to `classical' Latin).
  4. The present-day Romance languages with
  5. national status are French, Italian,
  6. Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish. Romansch
  7. (or Rhaeto-Romanic) is a minority language of
  8. Switzerland and one of the four official
  9. languages of the country, while Catalan and
  10. Gallego (or Galician) in Spain, Provencal in
  11. France, and Friulian and Sardinian in Italy
  12. are recognized as distinct languages with
  13. strong regional and/or literary traditions of
  14. their own.
  15.