Latinbased

Latinbased is an adjective used to describe something that derives from Latin or uses the Latin alphabet, and more broadly something associated with the Latin language family.

In linguistics, Latinbased commonly refers to Romance languages, the descendants of Vulgar Latin that developed after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Examples include Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Catalan. These languages typically share a Latin-derived lexicon, gendered nouns, and a system of verb conjugation, though they differ in pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary.

The term also describes writing systems that employ the Latin script. The Latin alphabet, originating in ancient Rome, is now widespread and is used with various diacritics and digraphs to represent sounds across languages. Latinbased writing is contrasted with scripts such as Cyrillic, Arabic, or Han characters.

Beyond languages, Latinbased can appear in terminology and naming that relies on Latin roots or in educational contexts where Latin-derived vocabulary is used for sciences and medicine.

As a label, Latinbased is descriptive rather than a strict phylogenetic category, and its applicability may vary among linguistic traditions. Related topics include the Latin alphabet, Romance languages, and Latin etymology.