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.

Terra Alta officialLanguage Catalan
.ad languageOfUse Catalan
Castellón, Spain languageUsed Catalan
subject surface form: Castellón de la Plana
this entity surface form: Valencian
Eva usedInLanguage Catalan
Miquel hasLanguage Catalan
Margarida hasLanguage Catalan
Roderic usedIn Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
Maria usedInLanguage Catalan
Western Romance hasStandardLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Standard Catalan
Rafael usedInLanguage Catalan
Ferreries languageUsed Catalan
Es Castell usesLocalVariant Catalan
this entity surface form: Menorquí Catalan
Peninsular Spanish influencedBy Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
Port of Ibiza hasLanguage Catalan
Magaluf hasLanguage Catalan
Serra languageOfOrigin Catalan
Mahón officialLanguage Catalan
Eivissa nativeNameLanguage Catalan
Eivissa officialLanguage Catalan
Cobi languageOfPromotion Catalan
Badalona officialLanguage Catalan
Pau Gasol languageSpoken Catalan
Santanyí languageOfficial Catalan
Ciutadella de Menorca usesLanguageVariant Catalan
this entity surface form: Menorquí Catalan
Alaior hasOfficialLanguage Catalan
Roderic Llançol i de Borja languageOfWorkOrName Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Laura usedInLanguage Catalan
Es Mercadal usesLanguageVariety Catalan
this entity surface form: Menorquí (Menorcan Catalan)
Formentera officialLanguage Catalan
Formentera regionalLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Balearic Catalan
Felanitx officialLanguage Catalan
Prades nativeLanguage Catalan
Alcúdia officialLanguage Catalan
Manacor hasOfficialLanguage Catalan
Gerard languageOfUse Catalan