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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Andorra, Balearic Islands, Catalonia, Latin Union, Spain, Valencian Community
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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6
Rank: 9 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language
Andorra, France, Italy, Spain
1.4 Second Language
Spain
1.5 Speaking Continents
Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Aragon, France, Italy, Spain
1.7 Regulated By
Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua, National Languages Committee
1.8 Interesting Facts
  • Catalan is 6th most largely spoken Romance language.
  • Catalan went through a golden age in low middle ages, reaching a peak of maturity and cultural richness.
1.9 Similar To
Spanish Language, Occitan Language, Italian Language, French Language
1.10 Derived From
Latin
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
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27
Rank: 9 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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23
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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5
Rank: 4 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Hola
3.2 Thank You
Gràcies
3.3 How Are You?
Com estàs?
3.4 Good Night
Bona nit
3.5 Good Evening
Bona nit
3.6 Good Afternoon
Bona tarda
3.7 Good Morning
Bon dia
3.8 Please
Sisplau
3.9 Sorry
Perdó!
3.10 Bye
Adéu
3.11 I Love You
T'estimo
3.12 Excuse Me
Dispensi!
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Caló
4.1.1 Where They Speak
France, Portugal, Spain
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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440,000.00
Rank: 35 (Overall)
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4.2 Dialect 2
Valencian
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Spain
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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2,400,000.00
Rank: 19 (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Ribagorçan
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Spain
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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8
Rank: 8 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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9.20 million
Rank: 55 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
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4.10 million
Rank: 70 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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5.10 million
Rank: 28 (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
català
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Català, Catalán, Catalan-Valencian-Balear, Catalonian, Valencian
5.3.4 French Name
catalan; valencien
5.3.5 German Name
Katalanisch
5.4 Pronunciation
[kətəˈɫa] (EC) ~ [kataˈɫa] (WC)
5.5 Ethnicity
Catalan people
6 History
6.1 Origin
c. 1028
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Romance
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Catalan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Catalan, Standard Valencian
6.3.3 Language Position
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Catalan
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
ca
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
cat
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
cat
7.3 ISO 639 3
cat
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
stan1289
7.6 Linguasphere
51-AAA-e
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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Know Alphabets in Catalan

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Catalan Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Catalan Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Catalan. Catalan phonology gives Catalan vowels and Catalan consonants. There are 5 vowels and 23 consonants in Catalan language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Catalan is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Catalan language is given in detail in this section.

All Catalan countries

Want to explore all Catalan countries? About Catalan language serves you with all Catalan Speaking Countries. Countries that use Catalan as official language are called as Catalan countries.

  • Countries that use Catalan as their National Language are: Andorra, France, Italy, Spain.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Catalan as second language are: Spain.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Catalan greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Catalan Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Catalan language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Catalan language.Learn Catalan greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Hola
  • Thank you: Gràcies
  • Good Morning: Bon dia
  • Good Evening: Bona nit
  • Good Afternoon: Bona tarda

All Catalan Language Codes

Get to know all Catalan language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Catalan Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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