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.

Berguedà officialLanguage Catalan
Osona languageUsed Catalan
Baix Llobregat languageUsed Catalan
Orfeó Català uses Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
Mallorcan nobility usedLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
Flags of Catalonia symbolize Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
Pompeu Fabra ethnicGroup Catalan
Pompeu Fabra fieldOfWork Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
Gorg hasLanguage Catalan
Les Corts languageOfficial Catalan
Badal hasLanguage Catalan
Sabadell officialLanguage Catalan
Vallès Oriental language Catalan
Moianès officialLanguage Catalan
Eusebi Güell ethnicGroup Catalan
Via Laietana languageOfName Catalan
Mataró officialLanguage Catalan
Garraf officialLanguage Catalan
Eixample languageUsed Catalan
Portlligat languageUsed Catalan
Plaça del Pi hasLanguage Catalan
CREI languageOfWork Catalan
Batlló family language Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
El Raval neighborhood languageUsed Catalan
subject surface form: El Raval
Besòs languageOfName Catalan
Catalan Company languageUsed Catalan
Pyrénées-Orientales department hasRegionalLanguage Catalan
subject surface form: Pyrénées-Orientales
Llívia officialLanguage Catalan
Cerdanya valley hasLanguage Catalan