Linguists often use the term “Romance language” to describe a group of languages such as Spanish, French, and Italian, but what does it really mean? Are they more romantic than English? You will find the answer in this Duolingo’s blog post.

Quote: “Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese might be the most familiar from the [Romance language] group, but there are many more — even within Spain, France, Italy, and Portugal! Others include Asturian, spoken in the very north of Spain; Sicilian, spoken in Sicily; Occitan, spoken in France; and Ladino, also called Judeo-Spanish, which is spoken by some of the Sephardic Jewish diaspora. There are over two dozen Romance languages spoken around the world!”

https://blog.duolingo.com/what-are-romance-languages/