Sentence examples for most romance languages from inspiring English sources

Most Romance languages (again) merely call it Holy Friday.

In Christian Latin a great many Greek ecclesiastical terms were borrowed, which survived in most Romance languages.

The disappearance of the Latin future has been remedied in most Romance languages by the development of new forms of periphrastic origin.

It was this sound change that resulted in the pronunciation of "soft" c before e and i (in most Romance languages this is an /s/ or /ts/ sound; in Italian and Rhaetian it is a /ch/ sound).

Later Latin (from the 3rd century ce onward) is often called Vulgar Latin a confusing term in that it can designate the popular Latin of all periods and is sometimes also used for so-called Proto-Romance (roman commun), a theoretical construct based on consistent similarities among all or most Romance languages.

In earlier stages of most Romance languages the verbal root (most often as it appears in the third-person singular present indicative) could be used as a noun, a process known as back-formation (compare Romanian laudă 'praise,' Italian domanda 'question,' French approche 'approach,' désir 'desire,' Spanish baila 'dance,' Portuguese muda 'change'change

Such grammatical information is conveyed by word order in most modern Romance languages, as in English, with the subject normally preceding the verb: French Pierre appelle Paul Peterr calls Paul Portuguese Pedroro chama Paulo; Italian Piero chiama Paulo.

Romanian continues a Latin distinction between long o and short u, fused in most other Romance languages, but, like almost all others, it has lost the Latin distinction between long e and short i.

Romanian phonology and grammar have developed in rather different directions from those of most other Romance languages because of the language's relative isolation from other Romance languages and its close contact with the Slavic languages as well as Hungarian, Turkish, and Albanian.

As stated previously, the most "central" Romance language is standard Italian, which has retained and even readopted many Latin characteristics.

Some words shared by most of the Romance languages are not of Latin origin but were probably borrowed from other languages before Latin unity was disrupted, especially words of Celtic origin, such as Latin carrum 'cart,' Romanian car, Italian carro, Logudorian karru, Rhaetian k'ar, French char, Occitan and Catalan car, Spanish and Portuguese carro.