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Dombra
03-31-2013, 12:05 AM
Are the French speaking Swiss considered Latin?

Damiăo de Góis
03-31-2013, 12:22 AM
Any native speaker of a romance language is considered latin.

Mark
03-31-2013, 12:23 AM
Any native speaker of a romance language is considered latin.
Romanian may be an exception, don't really know.

Damiăo de Góis
03-31-2013, 12:24 AM
Romanian may be an exception, don't really know.

Why would they be an exception?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/LatinEuropeans.png

Mark
03-31-2013, 12:26 AM
meaning considered 'Latin' as a group.

Damiăo de Góis
03-31-2013, 12:28 AM
meaning considered 'Latin' as a group.

The term "Latin" is related to languages and romanians speak a latin language.

Mark
03-31-2013, 12:30 AM
Thanks, I just wasn't sure.

Visitor_22
04-24-2014, 06:04 PM
They are only 21-22% population.

Odin
02-10-2018, 11:31 PM
Maybe, but they are a minority.

Bobby Martnen
02-10-2018, 11:44 PM
Yes, like all ethnic Frenchmen.

Alsatians are German, not French, by blood, and thus are ethnically Germanic.