French is a language with a long history, which developed from the spoken Latin.

Italian Studies at Stockholm university consist of five main areas: Italian Literature, Italian Linguistics, Italian Second Language Acquisition, Italian Historical Linguistics and Italian Philology.

Research in Classics at Stockholm University chiefly concerns language, textual criticism and philological studies.

Latin American studies is an interdisciplinary research area with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean.

Research in Portuguese at Stockholm University focuses on the languages, literatures and cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world.

Spanish, as an academic subject, contains a broad range of research-fields, in both linguistics and the study of literature, and both represent important and successful areas of research activity