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Originally Posted by ila
A question for you nmlss, and I'm not being facetious here. Is Catalan considered a language on its own or is it considered a dialect of Spanish? If it is a dialect how does it differ from Spanish? If it is a language to what group of languages does it belong?
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I'll tell you. But first I have to tell you a little bit of Spanish History X.
Catalan is a real language. In Spain there are
nationalism from Catalonia (which demands independence) and the Spanish Nationalism (whick says "Spain is one, not fiftyone).
The spanish nationalism came from Franco's dictatorship, and the catalan one from the Civil War's anarchists. This is where this "Language war" started.
If you ask a reactionary spanish (which doesn't speaks catalan) he'll say "It's a dialect!!! In Spain we only talk one language, not fiftyone!!!"
If you ask a catalan (a person who SPEAKS catalan) or a spaniard with common sense they'll say "Of course it's a language"
I'll sum up!!: Catalan IS a
LANGUAGE, and it's spoken on the east cost of Spain, the zone of "
Catalan Countries" (Catalunya, València (well, they speak Valencian, but it comes from the same root as catalan) and Illes Balears). In these autonom communities it's the official language along with spanish, but in Andorra, the country in the Pyrinees, it's the oficial one.
Well, hope you can understand my words, I'm talking my third language, so probably I made lots of errors, hehe.
08-27-2008
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