Catalan Language

Catalan (; autonym: català; Eastern Catalan: [kətəˈla]), known in the Valencian Community and Carche as Valencian, is a Western Romance language derived from Vulgar Latin. It is the official language of Andorra, and a co-official language of three autonomous communities in eastern Spain: Catalonia, the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands. It also has semi-official status in the Italian comune of Alghero. It is also spoken in the Pyrénées-Orientales department of France and in two further areas in eastern Spain: the eastern strip of Aragon and the Carche area in the Region of Murcia. The Catalan/Valencian-speaking territories are often called …

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UAP: University of Alberta Press · 13 April 2023 English

"The contributors to National Literature in Multinational States discuss the multiplicity and even incoherence of the idea of the nation, which presumes that the audience, the language, the territory, and …

Jerry White, in his chapter on the French Catalan-language author Joan Daniel Bezsonoff, offers the


CLD: Centre for Law and Democracy · 24 February 2023 English

For current purposes, we focus on four basic attributes of PSB: independence from government; a clear mandate to serve all of the people of the country; accountability to the people; …

Broadcasting to devote 50% of transmission time to Catalan language programming.31 In Ecuador, print, radio and


UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 30 June 2022 English

Proceedings of the international symposium, “Language Planning in Capitals and Urban Environments,” held March 25–26, 2010 at the University of Ottawa, with sponsorship from the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute, …

Catalan their own language (Subirats 2002). The Catalan language now faces new challenges in the Barcelona language, raises doubts as to whether the Catalan language will have a sufficient demographic base to prospects of the weakest language in the city, Catalan. Language policy measures seem to be insufficient. catalana” [The international capital of the Catalan language], in I. Marí (ed.), Plurilingüisme europeu


RSC: Royal Society of Canada · 24 November 2020

8 The Royal Society of Canada | La Société royale du Canada Roland Le Huenen | 1945-2020 Élu 2003, Division des lettres et sciences humaines Roland Le Huenen, éminent spécialiste …

the leading expert outside Spain in medieval Catalan language and literature, he was enlisted in the struggle struggle to preserve the Catalan language, a minority language spoken by about eight million people in


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 2016 English

How the parliaments of minority national communities and central parliaments express identities and treat self-determination claims.

Language of Catalonia Protection for the Catalan language has been one of Parliament’s key objectives Catalan identity and thus protection for the Catalan language is crucial for Catalonia’s construction as in all the resolutions and motions on the Catalan language approved during the period, the inseparable First, the normalization and defence of the Catalan language is the issue that has produced by far the legislature to the next. Safeguarding the Catalan language is found- ed on two main considerations: first


Canadian Heritage · 30 September 2013 English

The combined efforts to maintain and develop the vitality of 22 Decline and Prospects of the English-Speaking Communities… the Francophone communities outside Quebec and of the Anglophone minority within Quebec, …

clockwise in Quadrant 1 with the case of the Catalan language minority in Spain, whose strong demo- graphic


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 March 2013 English

An examination of the use of own tax rates by subnational governments in a federal setting.

contested. Among others, the duty to know the catalan language (sections 34 and 50.5) was merely softened


Ministère de Éducation de l'Ontario · 9 August 2010 English

Introduction “Twenty-first century skills, technology and learning” is a term used to signal educational change in policies and practices, and has been widely and loosely defined in terms of the …

the jurisdiction’s efforts to preserve the Catalan language and culture. The Catalan education system program is viewed as a key means of preserving Catalan language as well as increasing parental involvement


CNFS: Consortium national de formation en santé · 29 April 2009 English

By way of contrast, the Swedish-speaking population of Finland is estimated at 5.5% of the total.29 Despite the predominance of Finnish-speakers in Finland, the country has made a national-level commitment …

33 complaints about the failure to use the Catalan language in Catalan official institutions (these complaints insist on their right to be served in the Catalan language. Official Language Community Development Bureau


CNFS: Consortium national de formation en santé · 29 April 2009 French

Comparaisons internationales: Un aperçu de l’accès aux soins de santé pour les communautés de langue officielle en situation minoritaire au Canada, en Espagne, en Belgique et en Finlande Comparaisons internationales: …


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