In Which Country/Countries Is Catalan Spoken?

Question

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Answer 1

The Autonomous Community of Catalonia (Catalan: Comunitat Autònoma de Catalunya; Spanish: Comunidad Autónoma de Cataluña; Aranese: Comunautat Autonoma de Catalonha), known throughout history simply as Catalonia, is today one of the 17 autonomous communities that constitute the Kingdom of Spain. Its territory corresponds to most of the historic territory of the former Principality of Catalonia.

The term Catalan Countries (Catalan: Països Catalans) includes all territories where the Catalan language is spoken. This concept first appeared at the end of the 19th century and later was popularized by the Valencian writer Joan Fuster, in his book Nosaltres els valencians ("We, the Valencians") (1962) with a very strong sense of Catalan identity. Nowadays, the term is politically charged, and also tends to be closely associated with Catalan nationalism and Catalan independentism.

The "Catalan Countries" are sometimes referred to by Catalan nationalists el pi de les tres branques (the three-branched pine, in Catalan), for its territory can be roughly divided in three parts:

The former Principality of Catalonia, comprising:
the current Spanish Autonomous Community of Catalonia (Catalan: Catalunya or Catalunya del Sud)
Northern Catalonia (or Pays Catalan), in France (Catalan: Catalunya (del) Nord)
The former kingdom of Majorca : the Balearic Islands (Catalan: Illes Balears i Pitiüsses)
The former kingdom of Valencia: Land of Valencia (Catalan: País Valencià)
All of these were part of the Catalan-Aragonese Confederacy; all were outside of Aragon proper.

In addition, the term also often embraces

La Franja in Aragon (a Catalan-speaking region that is part of Aragon proper)
Andorra (geographically adjacent, linked by language, but never under the same political dominion in the period where a distinct Catalan language has existed.)
This territory does not coincide exactly with the places where Catalan is the native language. For example, in the north-western region of Catalonia known as Val d'Aran, a dialect of Occitan, Aranese, is spoken and considered the native language, although Spanish and Catalan are also spoken. In western and south-western areas of Valencia, only Spanish is spoken. There are also some Catalan-speaking places outside the "Catalan Countries", such as El Carxe in Murcia and the city of Alghero (L'Alguer) on the island of Sardinia.


The autonomous community of Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² with an official population of 7,083,600 (2006). Immigrants from outside Spain represent 12.2% of the total population .

Official languages are Catalan and Spanish (also known as Castilian). In the Aran Valley, Aranese (Occitan) is also official.

Answer 2

Simple...Spain is where it is spoken. As well as Euskera, Castilian (known as Spanish), and Catalan. There are other languages as well but the ones listed here are the 4 main languages of Spain.

Catalan

Catalan is abother of the Romance languages spoken in Spain, with its earliest literary text, the Homilies d'Organya, dating back to about the middle of 12th century. In the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries, Catalan literature flourished, first under the influence of Provençal literature and later as the producer of its own thematic and formal resources. From the 16th to the 18th centuries it underwent a period of decline, in which the Spanish royalty and other political upheavals imposed different restrictions. Until it emerged in the 19th century with the movement known as the Renaixença, Renaissance.

Its modern linguistic normalization was brought about with the creation in 1907 by Prat de la Riba of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans, whose principal pursuit was higher scientific research of all the elements of the Catalan culture. And it is at this famed Institut where Pompeu Fabra effected the regulation and grammatical systematization of the Catalan; thus unifying norms for its spelling (1913).

Both Castillian and Catalan (since 1979) are the official languages of Catalunya and the Balearic Islands (since 1983). Catalan is also spoken in some areas of Aragon and Murcia and, outside Spain, in the French Roussillon region, the Principality of Andorra and in the Italian city of Alguer (Sardinia). It is the mother tongue of some 5 to 6 million persons. Furthermore many Castillian or Spanish speaking people who live in any of the aforementioned areas speak and understand it.

Answer 3

To my understanding Spain for sure; but France had a small area off near Marseilles where some Catalans had created a small colony that still exists to this day that speaks Catalan as well still.

Answer 4

Mostly in Catalunia, a little in France, and whereever Catalans are found in the world. I've run into people all over Latin America speaking Catalan, and in some major cities in other parts of the world.

Answer 5

Mainland Spain

Answer 6

Andorra, the Balearic Islands, Valencia, and Catalonia. Spain has the majority of active Catalan speakers. It is spoken or understood by as many as 12 million people who live not only in Andorra and Spain, but also in parts of south western France (most of Pyrénées Orientales) and in the city of Alghero in Sardinia, Italy. Yay wikipedia.

Answer 7

Xabier is quite perfect -he's conscious of-, yet there is a few thing else to be pronounced. you will no longer have any project right here in Barcelona, the biggest catalan city, talking basically Spanish. we are thoroughly bilingual, there are a number of non-catalan people residing, reading and working, and in case you basically understand and talk Spanish it potential no project in any respect. besides, catalan isn't so complicated and in simple terms being right here for a on an identical time as you will learn some hassle-loose products with out any subject like "carrer" meaning "calle", or "highway","plaça" instead of "plaza", "eating place" as in French or English, etc. maximum videos are in Spanish and a few in unique variations, so are magazines, newspapers, television classes..., what else? besides, do as you like it. In Madrid people basically talk Spanish.

Answer 8

Spain, Andorra, France

Answer 9

Spain

Answer 10

Spain