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Catalonia ( Catalan: Catalunya; Spanish: Cataluña: Occitan: Catalonha) is a Spanish autonomous community. It is south of the eastern Pyrenees, and has a northern border with France . Catalonia is made up of four provinces: Barcelona, Tarragona, Girona ( Spanish: Gerona) and Lleida ( Spanish: Lérida ). It has a population of over seven million ...
The Catalan independence movement ( Catalan: independentisme català; [a] Spanish: independentismo catalán; Occitan: independentisme catalan) is a social and political movement (with roots in Catalan nationalism) which seeks the independence of Catalonia from Spain . The beginnings of separatism in Catalonia can be traced back to regionalist ...
The Catalan Countries ( Catalan: Països Catalans, Eastern Calatan: [pəˈizus kətəˈlans]) are those territories where the Catalan language is spoken. [1] [2] They include the Spanish regions of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, Valencian Community, and parts of Aragon ( La Franja) and Murcia ( Carche ), [3] as well as the Principality of ...
URL. ca.wikipedia.org. The Catalan Wikipedia ( Catalan: Viquipèdia) is the Catalan-language edition of Wikipedia. This edition was started in March 2001, and is the fourth-oldest edition of Wikipedia. It is the 17th largest edition by article count. [1] As of May 2013, it had over 400,000 articles. [2]
The current official category of "Catalans" is that of the citizens of Catalonia, an autonomous community in Spain [14] and the inhabitants of the Roussillon historical region in southern France, today the Pyrénées Orientales department, [15] also called Northern Catalonia [16] [17] [18] and Pays Catalan in French.
The main dialects of Catalan [1] [2] [3] The Catalan dialects feature a relative uniformity, especially when compared to other Romance languages; [4] both in terms of vocabulary, semantics, syntax, morphology, and phonology. [5] Mutual intelligibility between its dialects is very high, [6] [7] [8] estimates ranging from 90% to 95%. [9]
The Catalan language is a Romance language spoken in Catalonia, Valencian Community, the eastern part of Aragon, the Balearic Islands, a small zone of Murcia (all of them in Spain ), Andorra, North Catalonia (in France) and the Italian city of L'Alguer. Together, those places are often called the Catalan Countries.
