Meses en Espanol Trivia Quiz

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The Romance languages are those that are directly descended from Colloquial Latin. The four most widely spoken are all represented in this quiz - Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Romanian.

Spanish evolved from Spain on the Iberian Peninsula to being the official language of 21 different countries, mostly throughout Central and South America.

It is the second most spoken language in the world after Mandarin Chinese and has an estimated 500 million native speakers with another million who are fluent in it as a second language. It is considered one of the easiest to learn for English speakers as it has many similarities in vocabulary and grammar.

The original Roman calendar is said to be from King Romulus in the 8th century BC and consisted of 10 months beginning in spring through autumn with no names allocated to wintertime. The months were named Martius, Aprilis, Maius, Juniius, Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November and December-the last six names are the Latin words for the numbers 5 through 10.

His successor created the 12-month calendar by adding January (Ianuarius) and February (Februarius) at the beginning to account for the two winter months and effectively made the last six months all named two months after their meaning. We still use the last four which have the prefixes for 7, 8, 9 and 10 although they are now month numbers 9, 10, 11 and 12.

Quintilis and Sextilis were renamed after Julius Caesar and Augustus respectively and became Iulius and Augustus. January (Ianuarius) and March (Martius) are named after the Gods Janus and March. There are different theories about February, April, May and June but no definitive answer.

The calendar months in the Romance languages are all similar to the Latin that is their root. Italian remains the closest language to original Latin while French has changed the most.

The Spanish months, in order, are:
Enero, Febrero, Marzo, Abril, Mayo, Junio, Julio, Agosto, Septiembre, Octubre, Noviembre, Diciembre.

Incorrect answers are:
Ianuarius (Latin), Fevrier (French), Martius (Latin), Avril (French), Maggio (Italian), Giugno (Italian), Luglio (Italian), Aout (French), Capidanne (Sardinian), Brumarel (Romanian), Sant'Andrìa (Sardinian), Dezembro (Portuguese).