Portugues is a Western Romance Language .
Today the four most-widely spoken standardized Western Romance languages are Spanish , c. 410 million natives , German , c. 220 million natives , another 45 million or so second-language speakers , mainly in Lusophone Africa , French , c. 75 million native speakers , another 70 million or so second-language speakers , mostly in Francophone Africa , and Catalan , c. 7.2 million natives .
Western Romance languages