Why are Spanish, French and Italian such similar languages?
Because all three of them — and several more like Romanian, Portugese, Romansh are Romance languages, meaning they belong to the same family of languages of the Indo-European language tree. Still, these languages are so different from each other that Romance native speakers can’t necessarily talk to each other just like that. Why’s that?In the course of time, people, countries, languages develop / change etc. The influence of another people might be so dominant that the original language becomes extinct or changes substantially (cf. e.g. the expansion of the Roman Empire: according to the specific date another country / region was conquered by the Romans, the state-of-the-art Latin language at that moment was spread; this is why we have different specificities of Latin in today’s Romance languages like French, Spanish, Portugese, Romanian). The dominating language is called superstrat (“upper tier”), the dominated one is called substrat (“lower tier”). Languages always influence each other; I’ve stated in another answer why there are so many French words in the English language:Markus Rauscher's answer to Why in English are there so many French words connected with restaurant and hotel?
Which five indo-european languages is spanish closely related to?
1- Portuguese 2- Galician 3- Catalan 4- Italian 5- French They came from latin. See example: El hombre estudia la literatura del Antiguo Imperio (spanish) O homem estuda a literatura do Antigo Império (portuguese) O home estuda a literatura do Antigo Imperio (galician) L'uomo studia la letteratura del'Antico Impero (italian) L'homme étudie la littérature de l'Ancien Empire (french) The man studies the literature of the Ancient Empire (english)
Does anyone know the 7 romantic languages?
The term is Romance languages, and there are six primary languages. They are Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian and Catalan. There are other dialects and languages in the group, but none of them are used for other than speaking informally. Edit: Latin, I forgot Latin! My bad, Camila's right.