Maybe it is just an English thing, but Romance languages are anything evolved from latin (predumably spread by the Roman empire, hence "romance"). Portuguese is

Maybe it is just an English thing, but Romance languages are anything evolved from latin (predumably spread by the Roman empire, hence "romance"). Portuguese is included in the list, fwiw. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages