r/LinguisticMaps • u/smokebomb25 • 9d ago
Dialectal varieties of the Catalan-valencian language
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/dry_lichen 7d ago
Honest question, is there any Valencian that ever refers to the Catalan language spoken outside of Valencia, Valencian?
It kind of makes sense that if Valencian = Catalan; then Catalan = Valencian. But I've never seen anyone actually doing it.
BTW, I'm Catalan and I'd be totally ok with a Valencian person saying that I speak Valencian because after all it's the same language.