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  Romance languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
All Romance languages descend from Vulgar Latin, the language of soldiers, settlers, and slaves of the Roman Empire, which was substantially different from the Classical Latin of the Roman literati.
In spite of multiple influences from pre-Roman languages and from later invasions, the phonology, morphology, lexicon, and syntax of all Romance languages are predominantly derived from Vulgar Latin.
Diacritics common across Romance languages are the acute accent (á), the grave accent (à), the circumflex accent (â), the diaeresis mark (ü), the cedilla (ç), and the tilde (ñ).
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The invention of the press apparently slowed down the evolution of Romance language from the 16th century on, and brought instead a tendency to uniformization of language within political boundaries.
The term "Romance" comes from the Old French ´´romance´´ or ´´romanz´´, from Latin ´´romanice´´, the adverbial form of ´´romanicus´´, in expressions like ´´parabolare romanice´´ ("to speak in Roman").
Modern Romance texts also use two main variant letter styles, conventionally called "roman" (used for most text) and "italic" (a slanted and usually more rounded form, used for quotations and emphasis, and generally read with a higher-pitched voice).
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