Knowra Catalan language Catalan language Catalan is a Romance language spoken mainly in northeastern Spain, the Balearic Islands, Andorra, and parts of southern France and Sardinia. It has distinct regional varieties and official status in several territories.
Romance languages : A branch of Indo-European languages descended from spoken Latin. Catalan shares Latin ancestry with Spanish, French, Italian, and other languages in this family.
Vulgar Latin : The forms of spoken Latin from which the Romance languages developed. Catalan emerged as spoken Latin changed in the eastern Pyrenees and nearby regions.
Official languages of Andorra : The languages recognized for official use by the state of Andorra. Catalan is Andorra's sole official language and the language of its state institutions.
Spanish language : A Romance language descended from spoken Latin and spoken across Spain and much of the Americas. Spanish shares territory with Catalan but is a separate language with its own grammar and standards.
Catalan dialects : Regional varieties of Catalan, commonly grouped into Eastern and Western dialect blocs. Their differences account for variation in pronunciation, vocabulary, and some grammatical forms.
Old Catalan : The medieval stage of Catalan, documented in texts from around the eleventh century onward. Its surviving documents show the language taking recognizable written form.
Language policy in Catalonia : Public measures governing language use and promotion in Catalonia. Catalan is promoted in education and public life alongside Spanish, which is also official.
Occitan language : A Romance language spoken in southern France and neighboring regions. Occitan is Catalan's closest major linguistic relative, though the languages have distinct standards.
Catalan orthography : The conventions for writing Catalan, including its spelling rules and use of diacritics. Its standardized spelling represents sounds and grammatical distinctions across regional varieties.
Homilies of Organyà : A collection of sermons among the earliest substantial surviving texts in Catalan. The sermons provide early evidence of Catalan prose and religious writing.
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