Latin peoples
The Latin peoples, also known as Romance peoples, are those European linguistic-cultural groups and their descendants all over the world that speak Romance languages. The Romance languages descend from Vulgar Latin. The Latin peoples include:
* Andalusians (are an ethnic and cultural group in Spain centered in the Andalusia region.)
* Andorrans (A tiny country of southwest Europe between France and Spain in the eastern Pyrenees.)
* Aragonese (The Aragoneses are an ethnic group or nation living in the historical region of the Aragon, in the center and north east of Spain)
* Aromanians (are a people living throughout the southern Balkans, especially in northern Greece, Albania, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria, and as an emigrant community in Romania (Dobruja).
* Asturians (The Asturians are an ethnic group or nation living in the historical region of the Principality of Asturias, in the north of Spain. They have Iberian, Celtic and Visigothic background and they speak the Asturian language.)
* Catalans (The Catalans are an ethnic group or nation whose homeland is Catalonia, or the Principality of Catalonia, which is a historical region in southern Europe, embracing a territory situated in the north-east of Spain and an adjoining portion of southern France.)
* Castilians (The Castilian people are the inhabitants of the historical region of Castile. Through the Reconquista, they spreaded outside historical region of Castile all over the Iberian Peninsula, especially in the southern Spanish regions of Extremadura, Andalusia, Murcia and the Canary Islands.)
* Corsicans (An island of France in the Mediterranean Sea north of Sardinia. Napoleon Bonaparte was born on the island, which was ceded to France by Genoa in 1768.)
* French (In defining the French people, one must first distinguish between the legal sense of the term and the ethno-cultural sense.)
* French Swiss (Swiss French and the French of France are the same language, with some differences.)
* Galicians (The Galician people are the ethnic group or nation native to the Spanish autonomous community of Galicia, in the Iberian peninsula of southwest Europe.)
* Istro-Romanians (are an ethnic group living in Istria, Croatia with a population of 1,200. They traditionally speak the Istro-Romanian language.)
* Italians (The Italians are a Southern European ethnic group found primarily in Italy and in a wide-ranging diaspora throughout Western Europe, the Americas and Australia.)
* Italian Swiss (is a dialect or dialects of Italian spoken in Switzerland. This term may overlap with Ticinese, but may not necessarily be synonymous with it.)
* Megleno-Romanians or Moglenites
* Monégasques (Monaco is a principality on the Mediterranean Sea consisting of an enclave in southeast France.)
* Portuguese (are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of southwest Europe. Portuguese is their native language and Roman Catholicism is their predominant religion.)
* Romanians and Moldovans (The Romanian people are a nation in the meaning an ethnos (in Romanian: popor;defined more by a sense of sharing a common Romanian culture and having a Romanian mother tongue, than by citizenship or by being subjects to any particular country.)
* Romansh Swiss (is one of the four national languages of Switzerland, along with German, Italian and French.)
* Sammarinese (San Marino is a country in the Apennines near the Adriatic Sea. It is surrounded by Italy and is the world's smallest republic.)
* Sardinians (Sardinia is an island of Italy in the Mediterranean Sea south of Corsica.)
* Sicilians (Sicilia is an island of southern Italy in the Mediterranean Sea west of the southern end of the Italian peninsula.
* Spaniards (The Spanish people or Spaniards are a nation native to Spain, in the Iberian Peninsula of southwestern Europe.)
* Vlachs (is a blanket term covering several modern Latin peoples descending from the Latinised population in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.)
* Walloons (group of people living in S Belgium who traditionally spoke a dialect of French called Walloon, but who today for the most part speak standard French.)
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