Raistlin Majere Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Spain uciprotour-cycling.c Joined 6912 days ago 455 posts - 424 votes 7 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish*, Catalan*, FrenchA1, Italian, German Studies: Swedish
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INTRODUCTION
Catalan is a language of the Romance language, closely related to Occitan. Its origins can be traced to the ancient language Limousin, or "Llemosí".
The first text in Catalan, the "Homílies d'Organyà", was written between 1080 and 1095. It was a series of religious sermons.
Catalan is spoken by 9 million people in Catalunya, el País Valencià, Rousillon, Andorra, la Franja de Ponent and in the small Sardinian city of L'Alguer. Of these 9 million, 6 million live in Catalunya.
USEFULNESS
Ehmmm... Well, it's not really very useful unless you're planning to live in Catalunya, because (unfortunately) most Catalans tend to switch to Spanish when treating business matters. But it is really very useful as an introduction to Romance language, for it is possibly the easiest of them.
CHIC FACTOR
Catalan has the charm of those minoritary Romance languages like Corsican or Occitan. It's really nice to speak!
ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE
Of Catalan language, none. However, Catalan companies such "La Caixa" or "Banc Sabadell" are doing well in business abroad.
TRAVEL OPPORTUNITIES
You can travel to Catalunya ;).
SPEAKERS
9 million.
VARIATIONS
Catalan has two main varieties: Western and Eastern Catalan. There are only minor changes in the way some vowels are pronounced and some lexical differences. And Valencian is not a different language from Catalan!
GRAMMAR
As said above, probably the easiest Romance language. It has inherited directly the logicality and grammatical correctness of its "Ancestor Tongue" Latin.
VOCABULARY
Very similar to that of French.
SPELLING
Except for some vowels in the Eastern Dialect, the spelling of Catalan is quite logical and regular.
LINKS
I haven't found any yet, but I'll edit this part when I find them.
Edited by Raistlin Majere on 11 July 2005 at 6:47am
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administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7136 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map
| Message 2 of 19 18 May 2005 at 6:56am | IP Logged |
Raistlin, I would love to add a profile for Catalan, but I need more material to publish it and I don't know anything about the language outside of Jordi Savall's works.
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Raistlin Majere Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Spain uciprotour-cycling.c Joined 6912 days ago 455 posts - 424 votes 7 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish*, Catalan*, FrenchA1, Italian, German Studies: Swedish
| Message 3 of 19 18 May 2005 at 8:11am | IP Logged |
What kind of information would you need?
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administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7136 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map
| Message 4 of 19 18 May 2005 at 8:13am | IP Logged |
The same as in the French, German, Spanish or Italian profiles.
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Al-Malik Bilingual Heptaglot Senior Member United Kingdom arabicgenie.com Joined 6894 days ago 221 posts - 294 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German*, Spanish, Arabic (Written), Dutch, French, Arabic (classical) Studies: Mandarin, Persian
| Message 5 of 19 18 May 2005 at 11:40am | IP Logged |
my post has become obsolete and has hence been removed
Edited by Al-Malik on 21 May 2005 at 1:16pm
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Raistlin Majere Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Spain uciprotour-cycling.c Joined 6912 days ago 455 posts - 424 votes 7 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish*, Catalan*, FrenchA1, Italian, German Studies: Swedish
| Message 6 of 19 18 May 2005 at 1:47pm | IP Logged |
Ehmmm... No, not really :P. Thanks, Al-Malik, I'll correct that.
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1204grandine Triglot Groupie Italy Joined 6947 days ago 88 posts - 78 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, Catalan Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Greek
| Message 7 of 19 11 July 2005 at 1:28am | IP Logged |
Raistlin,Catalan is also official language in Andorra.
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1204grandine Triglot Groupie Italy Joined 6947 days ago 88 posts - 78 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, Catalan Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Greek
| Message 8 of 19 16 November 2005 at 1:28am | IP Logged |
Oh,I'm sorry...You already have written it...
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