The Internal Regions of Europe

[Sikeliot]

To me, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian sound alike. French and Portuguese sound like Germanic and Russian to me respectively.

[Laubach]

To me, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian sound alike. French and Portuguese sound like Germanic and Russian to me respectively.

You're right, at this point. I do not speak Romanian, but I can understand something, but French and Portuguese are, I would say, at opposite ends of the branch romance. Are the most difficult languages ​​for each of the two peoples understand. Although some words are similar, but not the grammar.

And the French pronunciation of some consonants seem a little more with the German language, than with the other Romance languages​​. And the Portuguese language offers a larger facility for Slavic languages​​.

As a historical matter, the language is important, but we are also related to Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and with our arch-enemies England

France is too diverse to be summarized to a specific class

[Comte Arnau]

Lol, looks like now the trend is to say that our language is close to Romanian.

Everybody knows that the closest to Romanian is Catalan.

Romanian: Am rezervat un apartament
Catalan: Hem reservat un apartament.

Romanian: Un moment!
Catalan: Un moment!

Romanian: Am văzut un bou și un castel.
Catalan: Hem vist un bou i un castell.

The sentences were not cherry-picked.

[Sisak]

alfieb, i see europe exactly the same as you.

[SKYNET]

[Peyrol]

Senseless...the whole Occitania is Southern Europe.

[Peyrol]

Then who? We're not mutually intelligible with Italians, let alone Sardinians. Catalans perhaps?

Romanians understood my language fairly well when I lived in Italy. Italians did not, so I had to learn Italian.

Catalan is a Galloromance language, as piemontese, occitan, french and lombard.

So, catalan is closer to these languages rather than romanian.


Galloromance populations/languages:

[Sikeliot]

You're right, at this point. I do not speak Romanian, but I can understand something, but French and Portuguese are, I would say, at opposite ends of the branch romance. Are the most difficult languages ​​for each of the two peoples understand. Although some words are similar, but not the grammar.

Exactly because if I didn't understand some Portuguese from hearing my grandmother speak it, I would not only not know it was Romance but I wouldn't understand a thing. When I hear Romanian I can hear words that I recognize from having studied Spanish, and I assume it's even closer to Italian than to Spanish.

[Peyrol]

It isn't a matter of ''what i heard'', but of linguistical philology.

I hear spoken romanian daily, since in my city there are more than 80,000 romanians (about 2 million romanians in the whole Italy, including moldovans and illegals)...to my hear, sound slavic, but the genealogy is undoubtely romanic, so it's a romance language.

[Vasconcelos]

The funny thing is that most people don't know that Portuguese has loads of French influences on the way it is pronounced, especially the Estremenho accent. It's very noticable once one compares it to the northernmost accents in Alto Minho.