Given the question: Given the following passage "According to Ethnologue, the lexical similarity between Catalan and other Romance languages is: 87% with Italian; 85% with Portuguese; 80% with Spanish; 76% with Ladin; 75% with Sardinian; and 73% with Romanian.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: Portuguese is a?
The answer is:
Romance languages