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.

MNAC languageOfName Catalan
Province of Alicante languageUsed Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
County of Besalú language Catalan
this entity surface form: Old Catalan
Cerdanya language Catalan
Valencian territory of the Crown of Aragon hasOfficialLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Llibre dels fets language Catalan
this entity surface form: Old Catalan
Ludovic hasLanguageOfUse Catalan
Catalan Countries traditionalLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
Catalan Countries nativeLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
Pere Milà ethnicGroup Catalan
Raimón hasLanguage Catalan
Bossòst officialLanguage Catalan
Autonomous community of Catalonia hasDistinctLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
La Ribera languageUsed Catalan
County of Girona language Catalan
this entity surface form: Old Catalan
Pere de Queralt nativeLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
Aran Valley officialLanguage Catalan
coat of arms of the Generalitat Valenciana languageOfName Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Palau de la Generalitat Valenciana nativeLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
European Union NUTS-2 region ES52 (Comunitat Valenciana) hasOfficialLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Reapers' War languageOfName Catalan
Catalan institutions usedLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
Pau Claris ethnicGroup Catalan
Pau Claris nativeLanguage Catalan
Alicante officialLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Arteta languagesSpoken Catalan
subject surface form: Mikel Arteta
Gironès languageUsed Catalan
Onyar languageOfToponym Catalan
Ter nameLanguage Catalan
Barri Vell languageUsed Catalan
Gironès comarca languageUsed Catalan
subject surface form: Gironès
Segrià comarca officialLanguage Catalan
subject surface form: Segrià
Benimàmet languageUsed Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Jordi Mollà nativeLanguage Catalan
Mercader ethnicGroup Catalan
subject surface form: Ramón Mercader
Valencian Spanish influencedBy Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
Valencian Spanish hasSubstrate Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian language
Valencian Spanish coexistsWith Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian language
Deià, Majorca, Spain hasOfficialLanguage Catalan
subject surface form: Deià
Falles associatedWith Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian language
La Cremà hasLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian