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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

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

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

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

27
Rank: 9 (Overall)
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18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

23
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

5
Rank: 4 (Overall)
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2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
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3 88

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

440,000.00
Rank: 35 (Overall)
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1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Valencian

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Spain

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

2,400,000.00
Rank: 19 (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Ribagorçan

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Spain

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

8
Rank: 8 (Overall)
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0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

9.20 million
Rank: 55 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

4.10 million
Rank: 70 (Overall)
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0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

5.10 million
Rank: 28 (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

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

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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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

Not Available

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.