Answer:
The Romans spoke Latin, which influenced later Romance languages.
Step-by-step explanation:
Latin was originally a dialect spoken by the people who lived in the Lazio region (central Italy), it prevailed throughout Europe as the official language of the Roman Empire. With the fall of the Empire, the Latin language managed to resist its abandonment by other languages and the forms of vulgar Latin that were spoken in the provinces under Roman rule constituted the Romance languages.