Catalan

E5109

Catalan is a Romance language spoken primarily in Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, and parts of eastern Spain and southern France.

All labels observed (21)

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Romance language
language
ancestor Vulgar Latin
closelyRelatedTo French
Occitan
Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese

Spanish
coOfficialIn Alghero
Aragon
surface form: Aragon (La Franja)

Balearic Islands
Catalonia
Valencian Community
countryWhereCoOfficial Spain
countryWhereOfficial Andorra
hasDialect Catalan self-linksurface differs
surface form: Alguerese Catalan

Balearic Islands
surface form: Balearic

Catalan self-linksurface differs
surface form: Central Catalan

Catalan self-linksurface differs
surface form: Northwestern Catalan

Catalan self-linksurface differs
surface form: Roussillonese Catalan

Valencian
hasGrammaticalFeature definite articles el and la
subject–verb–object basic word order
two grammatical genders
hasPhonologicalFeature vowel reduction in unstressed syllables (in many dialects)
hasStandardForm Catalan self-linksurface differs
surface form: Standard Catalan

Catalan self-linksurface differs
surface form: Standard Valencian
ISO639-1Code ca
ISO639-2Code cat
ISO639-3Code cat
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
primaryRegion Alghero
Andorra
Balearic Islands
Catalonia
Occitanie
surface form: Roussillon

Valencian Community
Aragon
surface form: eastern Aragon
recognizedMinorityLanguageIn France
Italy
Sardinia
regulator Institut d’Estudis Catalans
surface form: Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua

Institut d’Estudis Catalans
spokenIn Andorra
France
Italy
Sardinia
Spain
subfamily Gallo-Romance languages
Gallo-Romance languages
surface form: Occitano-Romance languages

Ibero-Romance languages
surface form: Western Romance languages
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystem Latin alphabet

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Claude hasLanguage Catalan
Vulgar Latin influenced Catalan
Catalan hasDialect Catalan self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Central Catalan
Catalan hasDialect Catalan self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Northwestern Catalan
Catalan hasDialect Catalan self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Roussillonese Catalan
Catalan hasDialect Catalan self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Alguerese Catalan
Catalan hasStandardForm Catalan self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Standard Catalan
Catalan hasStandardForm Catalan self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Standard Valencian
Latin influenced Catalan
Barcelona officialLanguage Catalan
Gabriel usedInLanguage Catalan
Valencia officialLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Valencia demonym Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian
Andorra officialLanguage Catalan
Sermo Vulgaris ancestorOf Catalan
Occitanie regionalLanguage Catalan
Occitan closelyRelatedTo Catalan
Occitan sharesFeatureWith Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
Sardinia recognizedRegionalLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan (Algherese)
Ibero-Romance languages hasMajorLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
Ibiza, Spain officialLanguage Catalan
subject surface form: Ibiza
Ibiza, Spain languageVariant Catalan
subject surface form: Ibiza
this entity surface form: Ibizan Catalan (Eivissenc)
Pol usedInLanguage Catalan
Minorca officialLanguage Catalan
Mallorca officialLanguage Catalan
Aragonese language closelyRelatedTo Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
Balearic Islands regionalLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Balearic Catalan
Aragon coOfficialLanguage Catalan
Nicholas hasLanguageOfUse Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
Pablo hasLanguageOfUse Catalan
Emma usedInLanguage Catalan
Gallo-Romance languages hasPart Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
Gallo-Romance languages majorLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
Institut d’Estudis Catalans officialLanguageRegulated Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan language
Institut d’Estudis Catalans writingSystemStandardized Catalan
this entity surface form: Catalan alphabet
Santpedor, Spain officialLanguage Catalan
subject surface form: Santpedor
Alghero localVariantOfCatalan Catalan
this entity surface form: Algherese Catalan
Antoni usedInLanguage Catalan
Paula usedInLanguage Catalan
Kingdom of Valencia hasOfficialLanguage Catalan
this entity surface form: Valencian