Catalan

Examples

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• Personal memories galvanized citizens who, aided by a Mediterranean concept of sociability, embodied in Catalan the social solidarity of an entire community.

  Academic text (2003)

• Yet it remains an in-group phenomenon, for non-Catalans are rarely expected to speak Catalan even when they understand it.

  Academic text (2003)

• Barcelona is the center of "Catalan" culture, language, and politics.

  Academic text (1991)

• "English is at least her third language, her first two being Catalan and Castilian, in that order."

  Blog text (4)

• Since 1975, knowledge and use of Catalan has increased rapidly in Catalonia.

  Academic text (2003)

• Catalan was established as the exclusive language for government administration and primary-level public education.

  Academic text (2003)

• Today, younger people, although they also absorb Castilian, communicate in Catalan.

  Academic text (2003)

• As a vernacular, Catalan is locally used in commercial exchanges, religious functions, and the whole educational system.

  Academic text (2003)

• A diglossia emerged in Catalonia, in which Castilian became the public language and Catalan was left as the home vernacular.

  Academic text (2003)

• In 1983, the law of linguistic normalization, revised in 1998, assured the priority of Catalan on signage (Generalitat de Catalunya 1998).

  Academic text (2003)

Synonyms

C

Catalan language

vsCatalan

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A language similar to Spanish and French spoken in Catalonia, Andorra, and nearby parts of Spain, France, and Italy

is the shorter single-word name for the same language

Compounds

C

Catalan language

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A language similar to Spanish and French spoken in Catalonia, Andorra, and nearby parts of Spain, France, and Italy

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