Valencian language
Valencian (valencià) is the historical, traditional, and official name used in the Valencian Community (Spain) for the language spoken in this region, also known as Catalan (català) in the Spanish Autonomous Communities of Catalonia, Aragon and the Balearic Islands; in the country of Andorra; in the southern French region of the Roussillon; and in the Italian city of Alghero on the island of Sardinia.
| Valencian | |
|---|---|
| valencià | |
| Pronunciation | [valensiˈa] or [ba-] |
| Native to | Spain |
| Region | Valencia, Murcia (Carche) See also geographic distribution of Catalan |
| Ethnicity | Valencians |
Native speakers | 2.4 million (2004)[1] |
| Catalan orthography (Latin script) | |
| Official status | |
Official language in | In Spain:
 Valencian Community |
| Regulated by | Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
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In linguistics "Valencian" is also used to identify this distinctive variant spoken in central and southern Valencia which has gained its own currency within the Catalan domain.
Language or dialect? change
The official authorities, which are the government of the Valencian Community and the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua, accept Valencian as a dialect of Catalan. The Real Acadèmia de Cultura Valenciana and several associations disbelieve this opinion . They believe Valencian is a language in its own. They also accuse the official authorities of mixing Valencian with Catalan. This is done by approaching the Valencian ortography and grammar to the Catalan one.
References change
- ↑ Míriam Luján; Carlos D. Martínez; Vicente Alabau, Evaluation of several Maximum Likelihood Linear Regression variants for language adaptation (PDF), Proceedings of the sixth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008,
the total number of people who speak Catalan is 7,200,000, (...). The Valencian dialect is spoken by 27% of all Catalan speakers.
citing Vilajoana, Jordi, and Damià Pons. 2001. Catalan, Language of Europe. Generalitat de Catalunya, Department de Cultura. Govern de les Illes Balears, Conselleria d’Educació i Cultura. - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Some Iberian scholars may alternatively classify Catalan as Iberian Romance/East Iberian.
- ↑ Wheeler, Max H. (2006). "Catalan". Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-08-044299-0.
