About Catalan Language | Catalan | Alphabets in Catalan

Countries

Andorra, Balearic Islands, Catalonia, Latin Union, Spain, Valencian Community

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 9 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Andorra, France, Italy, Spain

Second Language

Spain

Speaking Continents

Europe

Minority Language

Aragon, France, Italy, Spain

Regulated By

Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua, National Languages Committee

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.

Similar To

Spanish Language, Occitan Language, Italian Language, French Language

Derived From

Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 9 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 2 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 13 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 4 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks

Rank: 6 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Hola

Thank You

Gràcies

How Are You?

Com estàs?

Good Night

Bona nit

Good Evening

Bona nit

Good Afternoon

Bona tarda

Good Morning

Bon dia

Please

Sisplau

Sorry

Perdó!

Bye

Adéu

I Love You

T'estimo

Excuse Me

Dispensi!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Caló

Where They Speak

France, Portugal, Spain

How Many People Speak

440,000.00

Rank: 69 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Valencian

Where They Speak

Spain

How Many People Speak

2,400,000.00

Rank: 54 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Ribagorçan

Where They Speak

Spain

How Many People Speak

4,000,000.00

Rank: 40 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 8 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

9.20 million

Rank: 55 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.12 %

Rank: 55 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

4.10 million

Rank: 70 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

5.10 million

Rank: 50 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

català

Alternative Names

Català, Catalán, Catalan-Valencian-Balear, Catalonian, Valencian

French Name

catalan; valencien

German Name

Katalanisch

Pronunciation

[kətəˈɫa] (EC) ~ [kataˈɫa] (WC)

Ethnicity

Catalan people

History

Origin

c. 1028

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Romance

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Catalan

Standard Forms

Standard Catalan, Standard Valencian

Language Position

Rank: 30 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Signed Catalan

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

cat

ISO 639 2/B

cat

ISO 639 3

cat

ISO 639 6

cat

Glottocode

stan1289

Linguasphere

51-AAA-e

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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.