| Latino-Faliscan | |
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| Latinian | |
| Geographic distribution | Originally Latium in Italy, then throughout the Roman Empire, especially in the western regions; now also throughout Latin America, Eastern Canada, and many countries in Africa |
| Linguistic classification | Indo-European
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| Proto-language | Proto-Latino-Faliscan |
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| Glottolog | lati1262 |
 Latino-Faliscan languages and dialects in different shades of blue. | |
The Latino-Faliscan or Latinian languages form a group of the Italic languages within the Indo-European family. They were spoken by the Latino-Faliscan people of Italy who lived there from the early 1st millennium BCE.
Latin and Faliscan belong to the group, as well as two others often considered dialects of archaic Latin:[citation needed] Lanuvian and Praenestine.
As the power of Ancient Rome grew, Latin absorbed elements of the other languages and replaced Faliscan. The other variants went extinct as Latin became dominant. Latin in turn developed via Vulgar Latin into the Romance languages, now spoken by more than 800 million people, largely as a result of the influence of the Roman Empire initially, and in later times the Spanish, French and Portuguese Empires.