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Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries
6 9

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
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Alphabets
27 9

Phonology

How Many Vowels
5 2

How Many Consonants
23 13

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
5 4

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks 6

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 69

Dialect 2
Valencian

Where They Speak
Spain

How Many People Speak
2,400,000.00 54

Dialect 3
Ribagorçan

Where They Speak
Spain

How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00 40

Total No. Of Dialects
8 8

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
9.20 million 55

Speaking Population
0.12 % 55

Native Speakers
4.10 million 70

Second Language Speakers
5.10 million 50

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
32 30

Signed Forms
Signed Catalan

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
ca

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
-

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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.

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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.

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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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