Catalan language
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- The Catalan language has a rich literary tradition that includes works from famous poets and writers.
Examples
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In Catalonia, the Catalan language has a written history that predates by at least 500 years the appearance of French in Quebec.
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I mean, apparently it may be just a simple coincidence, but in, in, in the Catalan language, the word bagaria means county.
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Along with Castellano, they also speak Valencian, which is based on the Catalan language.
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In the following three decades, the Catalan language in Olot and throughout Catalonia went underground (Pallach 2000).
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Beginning in 1979, the democratically elected municipal council in Olot gave the Catalan language priority in the public life of the city (L'Olot 1979).
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Barca has been seen as a bastion of Catalan identity dating back to the three decades of dictatorship when Catalans could not openly speak, teach, or publish in their native Catalan language.
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In Catalonia, the Catalan language is taught in schools as a vital part of the region's culture.
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Many people in Andorra speak the Catalan language fluently alongside Spanish and French.
Synonyms
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6.1
A language similar to Spanish spoken in Catalonia and nearby parts of Spain
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a direct composition: 'Catalan' specifying the variety or origin and 'language' naming a spoken system, so a learner who knows both words will understand it as the language associated with Catalonia. This adjectival + noun pattern (X language = the language of X) is cross-linguistically common and therefore immediately transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
Catalan language comes from Catalan, the people of Catalonia, and language, meaning the way they speak. It grew from 'Latin', so today Catalan language means the language spoken in Catalonia and nearby areas.