The Catalan language

By Alex Gatius
Catalan is the language of Catalonia. Catalan is not, as some believe, a dialect of Spanish, but a language that developed independently from the Latin spoken by the Romans who colonised the Tarragona area.
Catalan is also spoken in other regions such as Valencia region and Baleares Islands and even a part of Italian country, the region of Alguer. All of these are inside the European Union.

Catalan is spoken by thousands of people each day, in fact this language has recently reached than 10 million speakers that is exactly the 72.4% of all the Catalan community.

But this seems not to be enough to make it an official language, at least at European level and not as a dialect. 

Language is a great asset of each society, we must ensure his survival because it is part of us, is our heritatge to the next people that will come after us, if we let it die, we will lose forever an essential part of us. 

This is a video about some statistics of Catalan as a language and its important for our country as all the languages all over the world.

If you are interested in learning a few words you can visit the Cambridge online Dictionary.

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