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History of Catalan. The Catalan language originated from Vulgar Latin in the Pyrenees Mountains between France and Spain. It diverged from the other Romance languages in the 9th century. [1] At that time, Catalan spread quickly throughout the Iberian peninsula when the Catalan counts conquered Muslim territory. [1]
The lands of what today is known as Catalonia, in Spain, were first settled during the Middle Palaeolithic era. Like the rest of the Mediterranean side of the Iberian Peninsula, the area was occupied by the Iberians and several Greek colonies were established on the coast before the Roman conquest.
Jul 1, 2022 · The Latin dialect of the 'Tarraconense' Latin was never a uniform language across all the domains ruled by Rome's "Capitoline Wolf". Professor Manuel Sanchis Guarner, when explaining the origin of the dialects of Catalan, stressed the importance of the phenomenon of the substrate, meaning the influence of pre-Roman (in the Catalan case, northern Iberian) indigenous languages in the formation ...
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Apr 9, 2024 · Apr. 8, 2024, 3:50 AM ET (MSN) Relief for Spain's socialists as Catalan amnesty bill clears parliamentary hurdle. Show More. Catalan language, Romance language spoken in eastern and northeastern Spain —chiefly in Catalonia and Valencia —and in the Balearic Islands.
Nov 22, 2012 · Thu 22 Nov 2012 12.47 EST. Catalan is not, as some believe, a dialect of Spanish, but a language that developed independently out of the vulgar Latin spoken by the Romans who colonised the...
The Catalan Wikipedia (Catalan: Viquipèdia en català) is the Catalan-language edition of the Wikipedia free online encyclopedia. It was created on March 16, 2001, just a few minutes after the first non-English Wikipedia, the German edition.
