Latin America

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Latin America

Latin America (Spanish: América Latina or Latinoamérica; Portuguese: América Latina; French: Amérique latine) is a region of the Americas consisting of countries where Romance languages are predominantly spoken.

Pronunciation

  • English: /ˈlætɪn əˈmɛrɪkə/
  • Spanish: [aˈmeɾika laˈtina]
  • Portuguese: [ɐˈmeɾikɐ lɐˈtinɐ]
  • French: [ameʁik latin]

Etymology

The term "Latin America" was first used in an 1856 conference with the title "Initiative of America: Idea for a Federal Congress of the Republics" (Spanish: Iniciativa de la América. Idea de un Congreso Federal de las Repúblicas), by the Chilean politician Francisco Bilbao. The idea that a part of the Americas has a linguistic affinity with the Romance cultures as a whole can be traced back to the 1830s, in the writing of the French Saint-Simonian Michel Chevalier, who postulated that this part of the Americas was inhabited by people of a "Latin race", and that it could, therefore, ally itself with "Latin Europe".

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