ISO 639-3 · catcat
Indo-European family
Catalan
català
Catalan is a language of the Occitano-Romance branch (Indo-European), spoken in Andorra, Spain, France and Italy. Wikidata counts 4.9 m first-language speakers (2021) and 5.1 m who speak it as a second language. Wikidata describes it as “Western Romance language”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
cat- ISO 639-1
ca- Glottocode
stan1289- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 2 Provincial
- Centre point
- 41.50, 2.00
- Wikipedia
- 216 language editions
4.9 mfirst-language speakers
5.1 msecond-language speakers
4countries
2scripts
9levels in the tree
2EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Catalan · català |
|---|---|
| Also called | Valencian, Catalan-Valencian-Balearic, Català, Valencià, East Iberian |
| L1 speakers | 4,873,396 (2021) |
| L2 speakers | 5,100,000 (2012) |
| Written in | Catalan alphabet, Catalan Braille |
| Official in | Andorra |
| Grammatical genders | 2 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 2 Provincial2
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Catalan
The branches above Catalan, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
