What language is the grammatical root of Italian French Portuguese Spanish and Romanian?

Romance
The Romance languages are a group of related languages all derived from Vulgar Latin within historical times and forming a subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family. The major languages of the family include French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian.

How similar are Spanish and Italian and Portuguese?

Where lexical similarity of Italian and Spanish is around 80\%, Spanish and Portuguese is around 90\%. In other words, these Latin languages are cousins. If you are passively listening to the three languages being spoken, they are similar enough to realize that they belong to the same language group.

How close is Portuguese to Latin?

Portuguese was 31\%, making it the second furthest language from Latin after French (44\% distance). The most obvious differences are in pronunciation. Mutual intelligibility is greater between the written languages than between the spoken forms.

How similar are French Spanish and Italian?

French and Italian have a lexical similarity of 89\%. Spanish and Italian have a lexical similarity of 82\%. French and Spanish have a lexical similarity of 75\%.

How similar are Spanish and English?

Fortunately for Spanish-speaking English language learners (ELLs), there are many similarities between English and Spanish. First of all, both languages use the Roman alphabet. That knowledge helps build a phonemic and phonological foundation. Secondly, 30\% to 40\% of all words in English have a related word in Spanish.

Is Portuguese like Spanish?

Yes, Portuguese and Spanish are the most alike languages. As you probably know, Spanish and Portuguese are both Ibero-Romance languages that developed on the Iberian Peninsula. However, of all the Romance languages, Spanish is the closest to Portuguese. Both languages are descended from Vulgar Latin.

Why does French sound like Spanish?

Spanish and French are similar in syntax and close in vocabulary due to their latin origin, but they are very different in sound because standard French has a celtic substrat and a germanic superstrat.