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)

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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.

Quart officialLanguage Catalan
Bordils officialLanguage Catalan
Campllong officialLanguage Catalan
Juià officialLanguage Catalan
Madremanya officialLanguage Catalan
Vilablareix officialLanguage Catalan
Salt officialLanguage Catalan
Alguaire officialLanguage Catalan
Vila-seca officialLanguage Catalan
Altafulla officialLanguage Catalan
Celrà officialLanguage Catalan
Alcarràs officialLanguage Catalan
Soses officialLanguage Catalan
Corbins officialLanguage Catalan
Sunyer officialLanguage Catalan
La Portella officialLanguage Catalan
Almenar officialLanguage Catalan
Teià officialLanguage Catalan
Pallejà officialLanguage Catalan
Ribera d'Ebre comarca officialLanguage Catalan
subject surface form: Ribera d'Ebre
La Granada officialLanguage Catalan
Cardedeu officialLanguage Catalan
Ciutat Vella district officialLanguage Catalan
subject surface form: Ciutat Vella
La Massana officialLanguage Catalan