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.

Flix officialLanguage Catalan
Ascó officialLanguage Catalan
Ginestar officialLanguage Catalan
Miravet hasOfficialLanguage Catalan
Tivissa officialLanguage Catalan
Vinebre officialLanguage Catalan
Baix Camp officialLanguage Catalan
Garrigues languageUsed Catalan
Le Barcarès localLanguage Catalan
Matemale languageRegion Catalan
Baix Ebre officialLanguage Catalan
Baix Ebre languageUsed Catalan
Alcover hasOfficialLanguage Catalan
sassaresu developedFrom Catalan
subject surface form: Sassaresu
sassaresu hasLinguisticInfluenceFrom Catalan
subject surface form: Sassaresu
this entity surface form: Catalan language
Italic hasDescendant Catalan
Cullera officialLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Batea hasOfficialLanguage Catalan
Bot officialLanguage Catalan
Vinaròs languageOfficial Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Renaixença mainSubject Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
Joan Maragall nativeLanguage Catalan
Joan Maragall ethnicGroup Catalan
Gandesa hasOfficialLanguage Catalan
Baix Aragó languageUsed Catalan
Latn isUsedForWriting Catalan
Enric Sagnier ethnicGroup Catalan