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Catalan is a Gallo-Iberian member of the Italic subgroup of the Indo-European language family spoken by 6.4 million first-language speakers and as many as 10 million speakers in total. Catalan is also known as Català, Bacaves and Catalonian and is one of the group of western neo-Latin languages, together with French, Portuguese and Spanish, the most widely-spoken languages in the same family. Catalan is spoken in a large area (68,000 km2) in the east of Spain (Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, Valencia, the Franja - the area in Aragon bordering on Catalonia - and other municipalities in Murcia that border on Valencia), Andorra, the south of France (North Catalonia – the Department of Pyrénées Orientales) and in the Sardinian city of l'Alguer (Alghero). Catalan in all its variants is spoken over an area with a population of 10 million.

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• - Some animal sounds in Catalan.
  
• - Information on the history of Catalan language and literature, from the homepage of an exhibition held at the British Library in London.
  
• - Catalog of primary sources, manuscript and printed, for the study of medieval Catalan culture. The bilingual site (English and Catalan) is the result of collaboration among US and Spanish universities, and is hosted by the University of California at Berk
  
• - Overview of the situation of Catalan today, from Mercator, the Information Network of Minority Languages of the European Union, hosted by the University of Wales.
  
• - Information about the Catalan-speaking world. It includes a parallel-language (Spanish-Catalan or French-Catalan) listing of Catalan-speaking localities. Source: Luistxo Fernandez. Bilingual site (English and Basque).
  
• - Comprehensive grammar of the Catalan language, with sections on pronunciation, morphology, prepositions, and noun derivation. Some bilingual texts are also supplied. Trilingual site (English, Spanish, and Catalan).
  
• - Basic information on the history and present-day situation of Catalan, with a map.
  
• - Datasheet on the Catalan language, from the Eurolang pages devoted to minority languages used in the European Union.
  
• - Sociolinguistic study of the use of Catalan in Spain, France (area around Perpignan), and Italy (city of Alghero, in Sardinia). Trilingual site (Catalan, English, and French).
  
• - Sociolinguistic survey and guide to learning resources.
  
• - A very short overview by the Generalitat de Catalunya (the autonomous government of Catalonia) on the Catalan language and its legal framework, history and socio-linguistic situation.
  
• - Web links to literature, newspapers, magazines, radio, dictionaries, lessons, and meta lists in Catalan. Source: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  
• - Brief introduction and overview of the Catalan language, with a pronunciation guide and map. A "Babel site", by Dàvid Uhlár i Escandell.
  
• - The Journal of Catalan Studies is an on-line academic periodical established to promote the study of Catalan language, linguistics and culture through the publication of research articles, conferences and reviews. The Journal, with articles in English and
  
• - Site of the government-financed board devoted to the standardization of the Catalan language. Multilingual site [Catalan, English, French, and Spanish].
  
  

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