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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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.

Catalonia officialLanguage Catalan
Valencian Community officialLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Valencian Community hasCoOfficialLanguageStatusFor Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Figueres hasLanguage Catalan
King of Aragon languageUsed Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
Jaime usedInLanguage Catalan
Joan Miró nativeLanguage Catalan
Joan Miró ethnicGroup Catalan
Ernest usedInLanguage Catalan
Senyera languageOfName Catalan
Catalan diaspora associatedWithLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
Catalan independence movement usesLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
Estelada languageOfName Catalan
Camp Nou languageOfName Catalan
Oriol Vinyals nativeLanguage Catalan
La Rambla languageOfName Catalan
Gil hasLanguageOfOrigin Catalan
Antonio usedInLanguage Catalan
Corts of Valencia languageOfWorkOrName Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
County of Barcelona languageUsed Catalan
this entity surface form: Old Catalan
Generalitat of Valencia officialLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Girona officialLanguage Catalan
Lleida officialLanguage Catalan
Tarragona officialLanguage Catalan
Santiago Calatrava languageSpoken Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Murcian Spanish influencedBy Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
City of Arts and Sciences languageOfName Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
University of Valencia nativeNameLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
University of Valencia languageOfInstruction Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Province of Valencia officialLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
eastern Spain languageSpoken Catalan
subject surface form: Eastern Spain
this entity surface form: Valencian
eastern Spain languageSpoken Catalan
subject surface form: Eastern Spain
Torres de Quart languageOfOfficialName Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Central Market of Valencia languageOfSignage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Capcir hasRegionalLanguage Catalan
Sardinian language influencedBy Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
lenga d'òc closelyRelatedTo Catalan
Modernisme català language Catalan