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Language code: roa

Technical information about ISO 639 language code roa

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The table below provides technical details for the Romance languages language, designated by the roa code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

roa

Name

Romance languages

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Iberian RomanceGallo-RomanceItalo-Dalmatian RomanceRhaeto-RomanceSardinianEastern Romance
Related languages
LatinFaliscanOscanUmbrianVenetic
Key facts
Descend from spoken (Vulgar) LatinAround 920 million native speakersShare grammatical gender, rich verb conjugations, and predominant SVO word orderClosely related Romance languages can show over 80 % lexical overlapSardinian is considered the most conservative Romance variety, while French is among the most innovating.
Sample phrase

Salve, quid agis?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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The Romance languages language, identified by the code roa, falls under the 'Collective' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Genetic' by its type.

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