Related Languages of the Latin Branch

One of the branches of the Indo-European language family is Latin or Roman languages, which are derived from the ancient Latin language that was spoken in an area of Italy 800 years before Christ, which was the foundation of the Roman Empire With expansion, this language also expanded and became the language of many Jews, later with the collapse and decline of the Roman Empire, this language was also influenced by other neighboring languages and due to these effects, different languages (French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian) are born from it.French is the official language of Belgium, Switzerland, and Canada in addition to France.It was an international language until the 19th century and is still one of the six official languages of the United Nations.Likewise, Spanish is the official language of 18 countries and is spoken by 200 million people worldwide.Portuguese is the mother tongue of nearly 130 million people.This language flourished when a small country expanded its colonial rule.Brazil is the largest Portuguese-speaking country.Besides Italian, Italian is one of the four official languages of Switzerland.It is widely practiced in the United States of America, Canada, Argentina, and Brazil, and more than 60 million people speak this language.Italian is a Romance language and has retained more of its ties to the original Latin than any other language.The Romanian language has speakers in European Romania and is also the official language of that country.Based on historical changes, the Romanian language is considered to be 90% Latin, and the remaining 10% is influenced by Slavic languages, and some words of this language are also Albanian or Hungarian.