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habarakhe4 wrote: > > How far does a language have to change until it is no longer a Romance language? I would > say that my conlang Tahian (Germanic sound shifts and Uralic vowel harmony) has gone > that far, but what about Rhaeto-Romance? Are there any essential components of > "Romance" without which it is no longer Romance? Romance languages, *by definition* are those languages derived from Latin. If it's derived from Latin, it's a Romance language, no matter how weird it gets. So, no there's no way for a Romance language to stop being a Romance language. Dan