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If the Romance languages that serve as official national languages have a very dynamic presence on the Internet and in specialized forms of communication, the situation is different for the twenty or so other Neo-Latin languages, which are much less widely known. The Oïl languages, Occitan, Sardinian, Corsican, Ladin, Romansh, Aragonese, Franco-Provençal, Venetian, and so many other languages spoken from the Iberian Peninsula to the Balkans, and from the Ardennes to Sicily, have lately been undergoing a sort of renaissance, thanks to the voluntary action of their speakers, who are supported by regional bodies and certain international and even national organizations. However, each of these languages is in a different situation, according to its number of speakers, its degree of concentration or dispersion, the available forms of institutional support, and so on. This article takes a quick look at how these languages are faring in today’s knowledge society.