Catalan Romance Italic European Indo Natural Languages Linguistics

Catalan Romance Italic European Indo Natural Languages Linguistics

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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Catalan - 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.
The Catalan Language in Catalonia - Sociolinguistic survey and guide to learning resources.
Catalan Countries / Països Catalans - 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).
Euromosaic - Catalan - 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).
Easy Catalan - Brief introduction and overview of the Catalan language, with a pronunciation guide and map. A "Babel site", by Dàvid Uhlár i Escandell.
PhiloBiblon's BITECA (Bibliografia de Textos Catalans Antics) - 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
TERMCAT - Coordination Centre for Terminological Activities in the Catalan Language - Site of the government-financed board devoted to the standardization of the Catalan language. Multilingual site [Catalan, English, French, and Spanish].
The Catalan Language - 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.
Journal of Catalan Studies / Revista Internacional de Catalanística - 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

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