CATALAN LANGUAGE

member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. It is spoken by about 8 million people in Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, and part of Aragon in Spain, in the region of Roussillon in SE France, the city of Alghero in Sardinia, and in the tiny nation Andorra (where it is the official tongue). Like the other Romance languages, Catalan is descended from Latin. It is written in the Roman alphabet. It is also the medium of a noteworthy literature.

See W. J. Entwistle, The Spanish Language, Together with Portuguese, Catalan and Basque (2d ed. 1962); J. Gili, Introductory Catalan Grammar (3d ed. 1967).

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books on: Catalan Language  - 2596 results

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Catalan: A Comprehensive Grammar
Book by Max W. Wheeler, Alan Yates, Nicolau Dols; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: Catalan Language--Grammar
...bibliographical references and index. 1. Catalan language Grammar. I. Yates, Alan. II...syntax of the modern standard Catalan language. In preparing it we have had...situation, and prospects of the Catalan language are significantly different...
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The Catalan Clitic System: A Diachronic Perspective on Its Syntax and Phonology
Book by Susann Fischer; Mouton de Gruyter, 2002
Subjects: Catalan Language--Clitics
...index. ISBN 3 11 017613 0 1. Catalan language - Clitics. I. Title. II. Series...object clitics for the Romance language Catalan has been presented. Catalan...showing me how wonderful the Catalan language and culture are. And finally...
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The Politics of Language in the Spanish-Speaking World: From Colonisation to Globalisation
Book by Clare Mar-Molinero; Routledge, 2000
Subjects: Language And Education, Language And Languages--Political Aspects, Language Planning, Nationalism, Spanish Language--Political Aspects
...Franco pero al reves? Catalan language education policies...in nineteenth century Catalan nationalism. The role of language as a link with the past...for the non-Castilian languages. As we will see later, Catalan in particular benefited...
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Language Ideological Debates
Book by Jan Blommaert; Mouton de Gruyter, 1999
Subjects: Language And Languages--Political Aspects, Sociolinguistics
...of cherishing the language in the context...history of Spanish- Catalan political relations...show how some language ideological debates...the latter is the Catalan case documented...a parallel Welsh-language structure of forms...Urla 1987), the Catalans (Woolard 1989...
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The Battle over Spanish between 1800 and 2000: Language Ideologies and Hispanic Intellectuals
Book by José Del Valle, Luis Gabriel-Stheeman; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Latin America--Intellectual Life--19th Century, Latin America--Intellectual Life--20th Century, Spain--Intellectual Life--19th Century, Spain--Intellectual Life--20th Century, Spanish Language--Political Aspects, Spanish Language--Social Aspects
...identification between language and nation became...the emergence of Catalan, Basque and Galician...nation. The equation language=nation on which...movements (Basque, Catalan, Galician and Spanish...ultimately incorporate Catalan (1907b:523; 1906d...centrality of a common language as an intra-historical...
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journal articles on: Catalan Language  - 227 results

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The Catalan Rule of the Templars: A Critical Edition and English Translation from Barcelona, Archivo De laCorona De Aragon, Cartas Reales, MS 3344
Journal article by David Hook; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 101, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Catalan Rule of the Templars: A Critical Edition and English Translation from Barcelona, Archivo de laCorona de Aragon, Cartas Reales, MS 3344 (Book)--Book reviews
The Catalan Rule of the Templars: A Critical Edition...MS 3344. by David Hook The Catalan Rule of the Templars: A Critical Edition...ritual text, are in Latin), found in a Catalan manuscript. An important aspect of this...
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Cultural and Linguistic Influence on Brain Organization for Language and Possible Consequences for Dyslexia: a Review
Journal article by Barbro B. Johansson; Annals of Dyslexia, Vol. 56, 2006
Subjects: Brain, Dyslexia, Language acquisition, Languages, Learning, Linguistics
...Different Alphabetical Languages (English, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, and German...group of Spanish-Catalan bilinguals that acquired the second language before the age of...either Spanish or Catalan as a first language, and who were exposed...
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The Frequency Effect in Second-language Visual Word Recognition
Journal article by Wouter Duyck, Dieter Vanderelst, Timothy Desmet, Robert J. Hartsuiker; Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Vol. 15, 2008
Subjects: Cognition & reasoning, Data bases, Frequencies, Language, Models, Phonetics
...the dominant language. Gollan et al...contrast, comparing Catalan-Spanish with Spanish-Catalan bilinguals in...their nondominant language than in their...their dominant language than monolinguals...that Spanish-Catalan bilinguals yielded...
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Fabula: A Bilingual Multimedia Authoring Environment for Children Exploring Minority Languages
Journal article by Viv Edwards, Lyn Pemberton, John Knight, Frank Monaghan; Language, Learning & Technology, Vol. 6, 2002
Subjects: Computer assisted instruction--Planning, Computer-assisted instruction--Planning, Europe, Fabula (Multimedia authoring software)--Usage, Language and languages, Second languages--Study and teaching
...languages of lesser diffusion." The language pairs we currently cater for...Irish/English, Basque/French, Catalan/Spanish and Frisian/Dutch...languages of lesser diffusion." The language pairs used in the development...Irish/English, Basque/French, Catalan/Spanish and Friesian/Dutch...
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PSYCHOLINGUISTICS: A Cross-Language Perspective
Journal article by Elizabeth Bates, Antonella Devescovi, Beverly Wulfeck; Annual Review of Psychology, 2001
Subjects: Aphasia--Research, Language acquisition--Research, Psycholinguistics--Research
...8-30 months of age, with instruments that are now available in more than a dozen languages Afrikaans, American Sign Language, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English (British and New Zealand), Finnish, French (Canadian), Greek, Hebrew...
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magazine articles on: Catalan Language  - 80 results

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A Country in Spain
Magazine article by David T. Gies; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 18, Winter 1994
Subjects: European Union--History, Language and languages--Political aspects, Nationalism--Analysis, Spain--Politics and government
...extended the influence of the Catalan language. By the 13th century, the local...Generalitat, the suppression of the Catalan language, and the closing of the University...of contemplative lyric in the Catalan language which, however, seemed to fall...
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The Cultures of Citizenship: Exploring the Ties between Media Literacy, Blogging and Democracy
Magazine article by Michael Lithgow; Our Schools, Our Selves, Vol. 17, Fall 2007
Subjects: Acculturation, Canada, Cultural values, Language arts, Literacy programs, Social networks, Weblogs
...example, radio stations were built in the borderlands of near-by Romania to broadcast Catalan language programs into Catalan communities (as the Catalan language had been outlawed by the Franco government. Rodriguez 2001). After Francos death, Catalan...
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Babel all'Italiana
Magazine article by Patricia Corbett; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 273, May 1994
Subjects: Ethnic groups--Italy, Italy, Language and languages, Language policy--Italy
...to use their own languages when and how they...minorities: Albanian, Catalan, Franco-Provencal...French zones, a Catalan nucleus in Sardinia...regions official language from 1561 until...speak catala, or Catalan. Separatist agitation...as the official language. Lawmakers have...
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Modern Languages: More Than Half of the World's Languages Could Be Extinct by the End of the Century, and Many May Not Last beyond 2050. but an Unikely Saviour Is at Hand: Far from Bringing about Cultural Homogenisation, as Many Had Predicted, the Internet Seems to Be Keeping Endangered Languages Alive
Magazine article by Charlie Furniss; Geographical, Vol. 79, April 2007
Subjects: English language--Influence, Indigenous peoples--History, Indigenous peoples--Social aspects, Internet--Forecasts and trends, Internet--Usage, Language and languages--Forecasts and trends, Language and languages--Protection and preservation, Linguistic change--Forecasts and trends
...multilingualism. In Europe, in particular, there is now strong support for such policies, and in this climate, such languages as Catalan, Basque and Saami have been revitalised. One of the most successful attempts to support a minority language has...
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The New Linguistic Order
Magazine article by Joshua A. Fishman; Foreign Policy, Winter 1998
Subjects: English language--Usage
...American northwest have formed Internet discussion groups in an attempt to pass on Native American languages to younger generations. In the Basque, Catalan, and Galician regions of Spain, such movements are fiercely political and frequently involve...
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newspaper articles on: Catalan Language  - 111 results

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Football: LAMPS: I'LL NEVER QUIT BLUES FOR BARCELONA; Midfielder Vows to Snub Catalan Giants.And Knock Them out of Europe
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), December 20, 2005
...us when we go to the Nou Camp." While both Lampard and his Catalan fiancee Elen will be cheering for the Blues, his in-laws may...in Premiership games so far this season SOUNDS GOOD IN ANY LANGUAGE: Lampard hears the news he is runner-up to Ronaldinho at the...
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'We Must Learn the Language Lessons of Catalonia'
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), March 22, 2006
...will hear of the importance of language legislation in the Catalan experience. Catrin Dafydd- chair...rights have provided a basis for language policy and legislation for over...that can be learned from the Catalan case is that strong legislation...
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Saving a Language with Chutzpah
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 21, 2005
...sterling17.99) SEVERAL European languages - Finnish, Irish, Welsh, Catalan - returned to life in the 19th...struck a fatal blow to the language, wiping out millions of native...Katz who used to teach the language at Oxford and now heads an...
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Business and Society; Spanish as a Global Language
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, March 19, 2007
...friends speak to one another in Catalan), I am encouraged in perfecting the language by the thought that Spanish is the fourth most spoken language in the world after Mandarin...is described as the official language of some twenty countries and...
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Watch Your Language
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), February 28, 2007
...Asia) 171 Lithuanian 160 Swahili/Kiswahili (Africa) 164 Sign Language 135 Malay/Bahasa (Malaysia) 130 Slovak 128 Dutch 126 Latvian...Berber (North Africa) Bosnian Breton (France) Bulgarian Burmese Catalan (Europe) Cebuano/Visayan (Philippines) Chechen Chichewa (Central...
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encyclopedia articles on: Catalan Language  - 14 results

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Catalan Language
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CATALAN LANGUAGE member of the Romance group...tongue). Like the other Romance languages , Catalan is descended from Latin. It is...W. J. Entwistle, The Spanish Language, Together with Portuguese, Catalan and Basque (2d ed. 1962); J...
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Catalan Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CATALAN LITERATURE like the Catalan language, developed in close connection with that of Provence...cent. court chroniclers gave a fixed form to Catalan prose, and the language became an expressive literary medium in the works...
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Spanish Language
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...exclamation point ( ) at the beginning of an exclamation. Bibliography See W. J. Entwistle, The Spanish Language, Together with Portuguese, Catalan and Basque (2d ed. 1962); Y. Malkiel, Linguistics and Philology in Spanish America (1972); J. Amastae...
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Basque Language
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...only as part of the sentence or phrase and not as a separate item. See W. J. Entwistle, The Spanish Language, Together with Portuguese, Catalan, and Basque (2d ed. 1962). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used...
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Portuguese Language
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...from some of the indigenous South American and African languages. See W. J. Entwistle, The Spanish Language, Together with Portuguese, Catalan and Basque (2d ed. 1962); E. B. Williams, From Latin to Portuguese (2d ed. 1962); M. E. de Alvelos...
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