Latin European peoples

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Latin European peoples are those whose populations are members of Romance-speaking European ethnic groups, which mostly inhabit the countries of Latin Europe. Romance languages descend from Vulgar Latin, the official language of the Roman Empire.

The Latin European peoples include:

European countries with a Romance language.
Blue: Official language.
Green: Co-official or Regionally Official language.
Red: Significant Unofficial language.
Yellow: Significant Unofficial Regional language.

Romance languages, 20th c.

• French people
  • Walloons
• Italian people
  • Sammarinese
  • Sardinians
  • Sicilians
  • Swiss Italians
  • Corsicans
• Iberian peoples
  • Spanish peoples
    • Castillians
      • Cantabrians†
      • Andalucians†
      • Canarians†
    • Catalans
    • Galicians
    • Aragonese
  • Portuguese people
• Vlachs
  • Aromanians
  • Istro-Romanians
  • Megleno-Romanians
  • Romanians
    • Moldovans†
• Romansh people

†This group is often seen as separate from the above^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] See also

• Other European ethnic groupings:
  • Germanic peoples
  • Slavic peoples
  • Baltic peoples
  • The Finno-Ugric branch of Uralic peoples(not originating in Europe, but a major group of Europe)
  • The Oghuz branch of Turkic peoples (not originating in Europe, but a major group of Europe)
  • Celtic peoples