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.

President of the Generalitat Valenciana officialLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Statute of Autonomy of the Valencian Community language Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Rosalía nativeLanguage Catalan
Alicante region language Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Víctor hasLanguage Catalan
Martorell, Spain officialLanguage Catalan
subject surface form: Martorell
Elche officialLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Day of the Valencian Community languageOfOfficialName Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Ripoll usedInLanguage Catalan
University of Alicante nativeLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Amposta officialLanguage Catalan
Province of Castellón officialLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Jaume I University hasMottoLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Torrevieja hasCoOfficialLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Costa Brava languageUsed Catalan
Benidorm coOfficialLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Castellón de la Plana officialLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Empordà language Catalan
Cadaqués officialLanguage Catalan
autonomous community of Aragon officialLanguage Catalan
subject surface form: Aragon
La Tomatina language Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
King of Valencia languageUsed Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Tortosa officialLanguage Catalan
Santpedor officialLanguage Catalan
Gandia officialLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Têt River languageOfName Catalan
Marta (Spanish) usedInLanguage Catalan
subject surface form: Marta
Diada languageOfName Catalan
Catalan people ethnonymLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
Catalan people ethnicLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
Catalan people primaryLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
Casal Català hasPrimaryLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
Catalan cultural federation hasPrimaryLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
2014 Catalan self-determination referendum (non-binding consultation) languageOfBallot Catalan
subject surface form: 2014 Catalan self-determination referendum
#11S hasLanguage Catalan
Barcelonès officialLanguage Catalan
Maresme officialLanguage Catalan
Bages hasOfficialLanguage Catalan
Anoia officialLanguage Catalan
Berguedà language Catalan