southern europeans

was southern europe conquered by a dominant tribe in the early ages?
because most southern europeans i.e portuguese, spanish and italians share names and their languages are very similar especially portuguese and spanish.

they share names like
romano
galiano
fabrizio/fabricio
santos/dos santos
fernando/fernandes
nunes/nunez
rodrigo
ramos
lopez

Their languages have evolved from Latin.The iberian peninsula was colonised by the Romans for hundreds of years so the Romans imposed their language and culture on those barbarians, same thing happened when caeser conquered present day France. Latin is the ancestor of those languages - romance languages.

Nikama bantus. Kuna Mwangi malawi

They are called the Romance languages.

What are the 5 original Romance languages?

5 most popular Romance languages
Spanish.
Portuguese.
French.
Italian.
Romanian.

First there was the Visigoths followed by the Moors then the Romans. All of them must have left some form of heritage.

Then you have the Germanic languages.

I had made this observation. Germans are very good in spoken English but the English can barely utter a German word. This flow explains it

The English do not have to learn German. For what? The Germans on the other hand have to learn English: it is the language of international business.

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Slavic Languages.

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In short, southern europe is dominant, by Romance languages, North West by Germanic languages and North East by Slavic languages.

Ni Romance languages zote. Ka vile English Dutch German Swedish sound similar ju ni Germanic. Kiluhya kikuyu kikamba also some similarities ju ni Bantu