| Proto-Romance | |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction of | Romance languages |
| Region | Roman Empire |
Reconstructed ancestors | |
| Lower-order reconstructions |
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Proto-Romance is the result of applying the comparative method to reconstruct the latest common ancestor of the Romance languages. To what extent, if any, such a reconstruction reflects a real état de langue is controversial. The closest real-life counterpart would have been (vernacular) Late Latin.