The spectre of the Cartesian subject
When Latin lost many of its inflectional exponents and morphed into what is now modern French, the pronouns of Latin, which were used for emphasis only, became obligatory.
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The Romance languages are all the related languages derived from Vulgar Latin.
In 2007, the five most widely spoken Romance languages by number of native speakers were Spanish (385 million), Portuguese (210 million), French (75 million), Italian (60 million), and Romanian (23 million).
The Romance languages developed from Latin in the sixth to ninth centuries.
