General
Catalan（加泰罗尼亚语） IPA: [ˈkʰæ.təˌlæn] (català IPA: [kə.tə'la] or [ka.ta'la]) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra, and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencia (in the latter with the name of Valencian), and in the city of L'Alguer in the Italian island of Sardinia. It is also spoken, although with no official recognition, in the autonomous communities of Aragon (in La Franja) and Murcia (in El Carxe) in Spain, and in Northern Catalonia, a historical region of Catalonia in southern France, which is more or less equivalent to the département of the Pyrénées-Orientales. china3view
Catalan is spoken in:
Catalonia (Catalunya), in Spain.
Valencian Community (Comunitat Valenciana), in Spain, where it's called Valencian.
An adjacent strip (Franja de Ponent) of Aragon, Spain, in particular the comarques of Ribagorça, Llitera, Baix Cinca, and Matarranya.
Balearic Islands (Illes Balears i Pitiüsses), in Spain.
Andorra (Principat d'Andorra).
Northern Catalonia (Catalunya Nord) (unofficial names), in France.
The city of Alghero (l'Alguer) on Sardinia.
A small region in Murcia, Spain, known as Carxe in Catalan.
All these areas may be known as Catalan Countries (Catalan: Països Catalans), a denomination based on cultural affinity and common heritage, that have also had a subsequent political interpretation but no official status
External Links:
Institutions
- Institut d'Estudis Catalans
- Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua
- Secretaria de Política Lingüística de la Generalitat de Catalunya
About the Catalan language
- Ethnologue report for Catalan
- Catalan resources in the Web
- GRAMÀTICA CATALANA A Catalan grammar
Dictionaries and phrasebooks
- Catalan English Dictionary from Webster's Online Dictionary - the Rosetta Edition
- Diccionari Català de l'IEC
- Diccionari Català-Valencià-Balear d'Alcover i Moll
- Online Catalan dictionary from Enciclopèdia Catalana
- Diccionari Invers de la Llengua Catalana
- DACCO. Open source English-Catalan / Catalan-English dictionary project.
- Catalan phrasebook on Wikitravel
- Learn Catalan!. An introduction for the Catalonia-bound traveler.
- Interc@t. Set of electronic resources for learning the Catalan language and culture.
- SisHiTra Online Spanish-Catalan / Catalan-Spanish text and web translator.
- Traductor Online Catalan to English, French and Spanish and back translator.
Catalan-language media - Televisió de Catalunya
- Radiotelevisió valenciana
- Catalunya Ràdio
- RNE Ràdio 4 Catalunya
- El Periódico
- Diari El Punt — Catalan-language daily newspaper
- VilaWeb The main Catalan online newspaper
- Catalan Wikibooks
Catalan-language web searching
- Yahoo! Català Searching in Catalan
- Nosaltres.com
- Google (Catalan language)
Catalan-language online encyclopedia
- (Catalan) Enciclopèdia Catalana
- Viquipèdia (Wikipedia in Catalan)
All information is from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language
