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Languages with roots in the Latin language are known as Romance languages.

French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian and Romansh are all the Romance Languages with official status. Others include Sardinian, Catalan and Sicilian.

But...most other European languages have some words coming from the Latin language. English has Latin to thank for many of the words (generally longer English words are Latin/French-based while short words are Germanic an example is "Extravagent" or "Good")

Also, many languages, including English, use the Latin alphabet.

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