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Languages of the family
Latin and the development of the Romance languages
Latin and the protolanguage
The postclassical period
The emergence of Romance
The language of religion and culture
Latin in non-Romance languages
The development of the Romance languages
Romance glosses to Latin texts
The beginning of Romance literature
The standardization of the Romance languages
Linguistic characteristics of the Romance languages
Typology
Phonology
Vowels
Consonants
Grammar
The reduction of inflectional endings
The loss of the case system
The emergence of articles
The survival of verbal inflection
Syntax
The reduction of the subjunctive
Conditional clauses
Morphology
Vocabulary
Latin inheritance
Pre-Romance borrowings
Later Latin borrowings
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Orthography
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How did the Romance languages get their name?
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