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African Romance

African Romance is an extinct Romance language

Romance languages

The Romance languages are a branch of the Indo-European languages comprising all the languages that descend from Latin language, the language of ancient Rome....
that was once spoken in the Africa Province

Africa Province

File:Roman Africa.JPGThe Roman province of Africa was established after the Romans defeated Carthage in the Third Punic War. It roughly comprised the territory of present-day northern Tunisia, north-eastern Algeria and the Mediterranean Sea coast of modern-day western Libya along the Syrtis Minor....
during the Roman Empire

Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
. Little is known about this language that may have been spoken until the 17th century.

It is believed that African Romance evolved from Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
as it was spoken in North Africa and it was subsequently supplanted by Arabic after the Muslim conquest.

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African Romance is an extinct Romance language

Romance languages

The Romance languages are a branch of the Indo-European languages comprising all the languages that descend from Latin language, the language of ancient Rome....
that was once spoken in the Africa Province

Africa Province

File:Roman Africa.JPGThe Roman province of Africa was established after the Romans defeated Carthage in the Third Punic War. It roughly comprised the territory of present-day northern Tunisia, north-eastern Algeria and the Mediterranean Sea coast of modern-day western Libya along the Syrtis Minor....
during the Roman Empire

Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
. Little is known about this language that may have been spoken until the 17th century.

It is believed that African Romance evolved from Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
as it was spoken in North Africa and it was subsequently supplanted by Arabic after the Muslim conquest.

See also

Other Romance languages spoken in North Africa before the European colonization were the Mediterranean Lingua Franca
Mediterranean Lingua Franca

The Lingua franca of the Mediterranean or Sabir was a pidgin language used as a Lingua franca in the Mediterranean Basin from the 11th to the 19th century and is the original basis for the word lingua franca....
, a pidgin with Arabic and Romance influences, and Ladino
Ladino

Ladino may refer to:*Ladino - Sephardic language, the Judaeo-Spanish primarily spoken among Sephardic Jews, or for the written form used in religious texts and translations...
, a dialect of Spanish brought by Sephardic Jews.
Africa Province
Africa Province

File:Roman Africa.JPGThe Roman province of Africa was established after the Romans defeated Carthage in the Third Punic War. It roughly comprised the territory of present-day northern Tunisia, north-eastern Algeria and the Mediterranean Sea coast of modern-day western Libya along the Syrtis Minor....
Romance-speaking African countries
Romance-speaking African countries

Romance-speaking African countries are those whose official or main languages are Romance language ones, namely French language, Portuguese language, or Spanish language, or countries which have significant populations that speak a Romance language....
British Romance
British Romance

British Romance, British Vulgar Latin or British Latin are terms used for the Vulgar Latin spoken in southern Great Britain in Late Antiquity....
, similar extinct geographic potential variety