Latin America
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".
Related Terms
- Americas
- Romance languages
- Spanish language
- Portuguese language
- French language
- Francisco Bilbao
- Michel Chevalier
- Saint-Simonianism
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Latin America
- Wikipedia's article - Latin America
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