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.

fallas languageOfTerm Catalan
subject surface form: Fallas
this entity surface form: Valencian
La Plantà hasLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Junta Central Fallera languageUsed Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
L'Umbracle languageOfName Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Ágora languageOfName Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Manises officialLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Costa del Azahar region language Catalan
subject surface form: Costa del Azahar
this entity surface form: Valencian
Burjassot-Paterna campus languageOfInstruction Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry languageOfInstruction Catalan
subject surface form: Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Valencia
this entity surface form: Valencian
Faculty of Biological Sciences languageOfInstruction Catalan
subject surface form: Faculty of Biological Sciences (University of Valencia)
this entity surface form: Valencian
Acequia de Mestalla languageOfName Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Segre River languageOfName Catalan
Consulado del Mar languageOfOperation Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
UPV languageOfInstruction Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Valencia campus languageOfEnvironment Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Granotas languageOfOrigin Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Gandia campus languageOfInstruction Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Micalet nativeNameLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
El Miguelete nativeNameLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Nou Mestalla languageOfName Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Sert languageOfOrigin Catalan
GATCPAC languageOfWork Catalan
Alcoy campus languageOfInstruction Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Puerta del Palau languageOfName Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Pere Balaguer languageOfWorkOrName Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Barrio del Carmen languageUsed Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Mercat neighborhood languageUsed Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Gironella officialLanguage Catalan
Orihuela localLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Sergi languageOfOrigin Catalan
Sergi usedInLanguage Catalan
Torrent hasOfficialLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Torrent hasLocalLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Ontinyent hasOfficialLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Captain General of Valencia officeHolderTitleLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Sagunto officialLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Requena hasOfficialLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Alzira hasOfficialLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Conflent historicalLanguage Catalan
Port of Alicante languageUsed Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
flag of Valencia officialLanguageName Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Retirada (mass flight to France in early 1939) hasLanguage Catalan
subject surface form: Retirada
1957 Valencia flood languageOfName Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Catalan militias language Catalan
Reus hasLanguage Catalan
Río Turia languageOfName Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian