Spanish came first. The Spanish language is really Vulgate Latin, spoken by the lower classes in Rome as far back as the days of Cicero and Julius Caesar.

French and Italian have a lexical similarity of 89%. Spanish and Italian have a lexical similarity of 82%. French and Spanish have a lexical similarity of 75%.

Italian is a Romance language, a descendant of Vulgar Latin (colloquial spoken Latin). According to the Ethnologue, Lexical similarity is 89% with French, 87% with Catalan, 85% with Sardinian, 82% with Spanish, 80% with Portuguese, 78% with Ladin, 77% with Romanian.

Romance languages, group of related languages all derived from Vulgar Latin within historical times and forming a subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family. The major languages of the family include French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian, all national languages.

Origins of Spanish and Italian Spanish and Italian are both Romance languages. That means that they are derived from Latin which was the language of the Roman Empire. All these languages are mutually intelligible to a certain extent thanks to their common origins.

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Analytic Summary. The Slavs living in Moldova are geographically dispersed, with a slight concentration in the Dniester region, along the Eastern border with Ukraine. In the Dniester region, Russians and Ukrainians comprise about 53% of population, whereas Romanians account for about 40% (REGIONAL = 1, GROUPCON = 2).

Christianity first reached Dacia (roughly coextensive with modern Romania) under the Roman Empire at least as early as the 4th century ad. By the late 9th century, the Vlachs (i.e., ethnic Romanians) appear to have accepted a Slavonic liturgy and Bulgarian ecclesiastical jurisdiction.

Most Christians in Italy adhere to the Catholic Church, whose headquarters are in Vatican City, Rome. Christianity has been present in the Italian Peninsula since the 1st century….Demography.

Although the dominant religion in Italy is Catholicism, Italian citizens also belong to other religious minorities. In 2018, the largest share of individuals who were not belonging to the Roman Catholic Church were Protestants.

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