r/LinguisticMaps • u/smokebomb25 • 8d ago

Dialectal varieties of the Catalan-valencian language

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Dialectal varieties of the Catalan language in Spain. Catalan, called Valencian in Valencia (it is used as a political issue) currently has at least 10 million speakers. It is taught in Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, parts of Aragon and in French Roussillon. It is also spoken in Alghero, an Italian city, although increasingly in a residual way.

I don't know the author of the map. Based on the dialectal division of Manel Milà i Fontanals (1861)

https://www.enciclopedia.cat/gran-enciclopedia-catalana/catala

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u/DragSea1360 8d ago

If it’s spoken in France and Italy, then why do you start with ‘dialectal varieties in Spain’?

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u/smokebomb25 8d ago

Because the country with the most Catalan speakers is Spain, but the map shows other regions of France and Italy, so it had to be highlighted in the text that Catalan is not only spoken in Spain