Catalan

E5109

Romance language language

Catalan is a Romance language spoken primarily in Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, and parts of eastern Spain and southern France.

Aliases (14)

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Romance language → language →
ancestor	Vulgar Latin →
closelyRelatedTo	French → Occitan → Portuguese → Spanish →
coOfficialIn	Alghero → Aragon (La Franja) → Balearic Islands → Catalonia → Valencian Community →
countryWhereCoOfficial	Spain →
countryWhereOfficial	Andorra →
hasDialect	Alguerese Catalan → Balearic → Central Catalan → Northwestern Catalan → Roussillonese Catalan → Valencian →
hasGrammaticalFeature	definite articles el and la → subject–verb–object basic word order → two grammatical genders →
hasPhonologicalFeature	vowel reduction in unstressed syllables (in many dialects) →
hasStandardForm	Standard Catalan → Standard Valencian →
ISO639-1Code	ca →
ISO639-2Code	cat →
ISO639-3Code	cat →
languageFamily	Indo-European languages →
primaryRegion	Alghero → Andorra → Balearic Islands → Catalonia → Roussillon → Valencian Community → eastern Aragon →
recognizedMinorityLanguageIn	France → Italy → Sardinia →
regulator	Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua → Institut d’Estudis Catalans →
spokenIn	Andorra → France → Italy → Sardinia → Spain →
subfamily	Gallo-Romance languages → Occitano-Romance languages → Western Romance languages →
writingDirection	left-to-right →
writingSystem	Latin alphabet →

Referenced by (105)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Andorra → Balearic Islands → Barcelona → Catalonia → Generalitat of Valencia ("Valencian") → Girona → Ibiza → Lleida → Mallorca → Minorca → Province of Valencia ("Valencian") → Santpedor → Tarragona → Terra Alta → Val d’Aran → Valencia ("Valencian") → Valencian Community ("Valencian") →	officialLanguage
Antoni → Antonio → Emma → Ernest → Eva → Gabriel → Jaime → Paula → Pol →	usedInLanguage
Camp Nou → City of Arts and Sciences ("Valencian") → Estelada → La Rambla → Senyera →	languageOfName
Catalan ("Central Catalan") → Catalan ("Northwestern Catalan") → Catalan ("Roussillonese Catalan") → Catalan ("Alguerese Catalan") →	hasDialect
Eastern Spain ("Valencian") → Eastern Spain → Junípero Serra → Santiago Calatrava ("Valencian") →	languageSpoken
Castellón de la Plana ("Valencian") → County of Barcelona ("Old Catalan") → King of Aragon ("Catalan language") → Parliament of Catalonia →	languageUsed
General Council → Joan Miró → José Carreras → Oriol Vinyals →	nativeLanguage
Aragonese language ("Catalan language") → Occitan → lenga d'òc →	closelyRelatedTo
Claude → Figueres → World War I poetry →	hasLanguage
Corts of Valencia ("Valencian") → Jaume Plensa → Josep Lluís Sert →	languageOfWorkOrName
Nicholas ("Catalan language") → Pablo →	hasLanguageOfUse
Kingdom of Valencia ("Valencian") → Kingdom of Valencia →	hasOfficialLanguage
Capcir → Southern France →	hasRegionalLanguage
Catalan ("Standard Catalan") → Catalan ("Standard Valencian") →	hasStandardForm
Latin → Vulgar Latin →	influenced
Murcian Spanish ("Catalan language") → Sardinian language ("Catalan language") →	influencedBy
Balearic Islands ("Balearic Catalan") → Occitanie →	regionalLanguage
Catalan diaspora → Catalan independence movement ("Catalan language") →	usesLanguage
Sermo Vulgaris →	ancestorOf
Catalan diaspora ("Catalan language") →	associatedWithLanguage
Google Translate →	availableLanguage
Aragon →	coOfficialLanguage
Valencia ("Valencian") →	demonym
Joan Miró →	ethnicGroup
Catalonia →	hasCoOfficialLanguageStatus
Valencian Community ("Valencian") →	hasCoOfficialLanguageStatusFor
Catalonia →	hasDistinctLanguage
Wiktionary →	hasEditionInLanguage
Gil →	hasLanguageOfOrigin
Aragonese language →	hasLexicalInfluenceFrom
Ibero-Romance languages ("Catalan language") →	hasMajorLanguage
Gallo-Romance languages ("Catalan language") →	hasPart
Wikiversity →	hasVersionInLanguage
Modernisme català →	language
La Diada →	languageOfExpression
University of Valencia ("Valencian") →	languageOfInstruction
Torres de Quart ("Valencian") →	languageOfOfficialName
Catalan Revolt →	languageOfRegion
Central Market of Valencia ("Valencian") →	languageOfSignage
.ad →	languageOfUse
Iberian Peninsula →	languagesSpoken
Ibiza ("Ibizan Catalan (Eivissenc)") →	languageVariant
Alghero ("Algherese Catalan") →	localVariantOfCatalan
Gallo-Romance languages ("Catalan language") →	majorLanguage
University of Valencia ("Valencian") →	nativeNameLanguage
Institut d’Estudis Catalans ("Catalan language") →	officialLanguageRegulated
Barcelona Metro →	primaryLanguageOfSignage
Alghero →	recognizedMinorityLanguage
Sardinia ("Catalan (Algherese)") →	recognizedRegionalLanguage
Occitan ("Catalan language") →	sharesFeatureWith
Institut d’Estudis Catalans ("Catalan alphabet") →	writingSystemStandardized