Catalan
How many people are native Catalan speakers?
About 4.1 million speakers natively speak Catalan, mainly in Spain and in Andorra, where Catalan is the official language.
How many people speak Catalan in the world?
Around 10 million people speak Catalan, mostly in the Spanish autonomous communities of the Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencia, where the language is known as Valencian.
Origins of Catalan
Catalan is a Romance language but developed differently to Spanish and Portuguese and is more similar to Italian especially in terms of vocabulary and pronunciation.
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