Catalan
By Jose Ignacio Hualde
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- ISBN: 978-0-415-05498-0
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 19th March 1992
- Pages: 484
About the Book
Among the languages of Europe Catalan has a special status because it enjoys official recognition, along with Spanish, in a number of Spanish-speaking regions. These include Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands and the principality of Andorra. Also spoken in Roussillon, France, and in the town of Alghero, Sardinia, it therefore has a relatively large number of speakers. Catalan is also of importance within the Romance family of languages, because it constitutes a link between the Ibero-Romance and the Gallo-Romance branches. In its syntax and morphology it presents characteristics which will be familiar to readers with a knowledge of other Romance languages, especially Spanish. But there are a number of areas in which Catalan differs markedly, and this study explores them in depth.
