What is Italic languages?
{{Infobox language family | name = Italic | region = Originally the [[Italian peninsula]], parts of today's [[Austria]] and [[Switzerland]], today [[southern Europe]], [[Latin America]], [[Canada]], and the official languages of half the countries of [[Africa]]. | familycolor = Indo-European | fam2 = [[Italo-Celtic]] ? | protoname = [[Proto-Italic language|Proto-Italic]] | child1 = [[Latino-Faliscan languages|Latino-Faliscan]] (including [[Romance languages|Romance]]) | child2 = [[Osco-Umbrian languages|Osco-Umbrian]] (Sabellic) | child3 = [[Venetic language|Venetic]]? | child4 = [[Sicels#Language|Sicel]]? | child5 = [[Lusitanian language|Lusitanian]]?<ref name=Prosper2009>{{cite journal|last1=Prósper|first1=Blanca Maria|last2=Villar|first2=Francisco|title=Nueva Inscriptión Lusitana Procedente de Portalegre|journal=EMERITA, Revista de Lingüística y Filología Clásica (EM)|year=2009|volume=LXXVII|issue=1|pages=1–32|url=http://emerita.revistas.csic.es/index.php/emerita/article/view/304/313|accessdate=11 June 2012}}</ref>{{Sfn|Villar|2000|p=}} | iso5 = itc | glotto = ital1284 | glottorefname = Italic | map = | mapcaption = Detailed distribution of languages in [[Italy]], during the 5th century BC. ([[North Picene language|North Picene]] is an [[unclassified language]], and [[Etruscan language|Etruscan]] and [[Rhaetian language|Rhaetic]] are classified as [[Tyrsenian languages]], and are not [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] like the rest of the languages on the map.) | ancestor = | glottoname = | notes = }} The '''Italic languages''' are a branch of the [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European language family]]. They were first spoken in [[Italy]]. The main language was [[Latin]], which eventually turned into the [[Romance languages]] spoken today. The [[Roman Empire]] spread Latin to much of [[Western Europe]]. Today, the main Italic languages spoken are [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[French language|French]], [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], [[Italian language|Italian]], and [[Romanian language|Roman