South America's only languages are Portuguese and Spanish.
It may also be considered a subcontinent of the Americas , which is the model used in nations that speak Romance languages .	subcontinent	subcontinent	Americas	Americas	Romance languages	Romance languages
The five most widely spoken Romance languages by number of native speakers are Spanish -LRB- 410 million -RRB- , Portuguese -LRB- 250 million -RRB- , French -LRB- 80 million -RRB- , Italian -LRB- 60 million -RRB- , and Romanian -LRB- 25 million -RRB- .	most widely spoken Romance languages	List of languages by number of native speakers	Spanish	Spanish language	Portuguese	Portuguese language	French	French language	Italian	Italian language	Romanian	Romanian language
