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Valencian (valencià) or the Valencian language (llengua valenciana) is the official, historical and traditional name used in the Valencian Community of Spain to refer to the Romance language also known as Catalan, either as a whole or in its Valencia-specific linguistic forms.
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Valencian or Valencian language is the official, historical and traditional name used in the Valencian Community of Spain to refer to the Romance language also known as Catalan, either as a whole or in its Valencia-specific linguistic forms.
Valencian ( valencià) is the historical, traditional, and official name used in the Valencian Community ( Spain) for the language spoken in this region, also known as Catalan ( català) in the Spanish Autonomous Communities of Catalonia, Aragon and the Balearic Islands; in the country of Andorra; in the southern French region of the Roussillon ...
Language family: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Western, Gallo-Romance, Occitano-Romance, Catalan, Western Catalan. Number of speakers: c. 2.4 million. Spoken in: Valencian Community and the Region of Murcia in Spain. First written: 14th century. Writing system: Latin script.
Valencian is classified as a Western dialect, along with the northwestern varieties spoken in Western Catalonia (provinces of Lleida and the western half of Tarragona). Central Catalan has 90% to 95% inherent intelligibility for speakers of Valencian.
Spanish (or Castilian) is the official language of Spain, while Valencian, that is, the varieties of Catalan spoken in the Community, is the language considered by the Statute of Autonomy as llengua pròpia ("native language"). Valencian is traditionally spoken in the densely populated coastal areas rather than inland, where many places have ...
2-Language: The Valencian is a romance language spoken in the Valencian Community, which is located on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. The Valencian Community has an extension of 23.305 km2 and a population of 4.692.449 inhabitants, according to the census made in 2005. There are three phonetically distinctive dialects: "Castellonenc" in the ...
