Catalan

E5109

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

All labels observed (21)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (52)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Romance language
language
ancestor Vulgar Latin
closelyRelatedTo French
Occitan
Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese

Spanish
coOfficialIn Alghero
Aragon
surface form: Aragon (La Franja)

Balearic Islands
Catalonia
Valencian Community
countryWhereCoOfficial Spain
countryWhereOfficial Andorra
hasDialect Catalan self-linksurface differs
surface form: Alguerese Catalan

Balearic Islands
surface form: Balearic

Catalan self-linksurface differs
surface form: Central Catalan

Catalan self-linksurface differs
surface form: Northwestern Catalan

Catalan self-linksurface differs
surface form: 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 Catalan self-linksurface differs
surface form: Standard Catalan

Catalan self-linksurface differs
surface form: Standard Valencian
ISO639-1Code ca
ISO639-2Code cat
ISO639-3Code cat
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
primaryRegion Alghero
Andorra
Balearic Islands
Catalonia
Occitanie
surface form: Roussillon

Valencian Community
Aragon
surface form: eastern Aragon
recognizedMinorityLanguageIn France
Italy
Sardinia
regulator Institut d’Estudis Catalans
surface form: Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua

Institut d’Estudis Catalans
spokenIn Andorra
France
Italy
Sardinia
Spain
subfamily Gallo-Romance languages
Gallo-Romance languages
surface form: Occitano-Romance languages

Ibero-Romance languages
surface form: Western Romance languages
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystem Latin alphabet

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

El Vendrell officialLanguage Catalan
co-principality of Andorra officialLanguage Catalan
subject surface form: Co-Principality of Andorra
municipality of Son Servera officialLanguage Catalan
subject surface form: Son Servera
municipality of Santanyí officialLanguage Catalan
subject surface form: Santanyí
La Selva officialLanguage Catalan
Pals officialLanguage Catalan
Peralada officialLanguage Catalan
Balaguer, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain officialLanguage Catalan
subject surface form: Balaguer
Olot officialLanguage Catalan
Banyoles officialLanguage Catalan
Pitiusas officialLanguage Catalan
Martorell officialLanguage Catalan
Ripoll (municipality in Catalonia) officialLanguage Catalan
subject surface form: Ripoll
Llançà officialLanguage Catalan
La Jonquera officialLanguage Catalan
Begur officialLanguage Catalan
comarca of Baix Ebre officialLanguage Catalan
subject surface form: Baix Ebre
comarca of Bages officialLanguage Catalan
subject surface form: Bages
municipality of Santpedor officialLanguage Catalan
subject surface form: Santpedor
IRL officialLanguage Catalan
subject surface form: Institut Ramon Llull
Berga officialLanguage Catalan
Gallifa officialLanguage Catalan
Rubí officialLanguage Catalan
Sentmenat officialLanguage Catalan
Selva officialLanguage Catalan
Alella officialLanguage Catalan
Òrrius officialLanguage Catalan