Catalan leid

Catalan
	català
Pronunciation	[kətəˈɫa](EC) ~[kataˈɫa](WC)
Native tae	Andorrae,Fraunce,Italy,Spain
Region	See; geographic distribution o Catalan
Ethnicity	Catalans
Native speakers	11.5 million (2009)
Leid faimily	Indo-European Italic Romance Wastren Gallo-Romance Occitano-Romance Catalan; ; ; ; ; ;
Early form	Old Catalan
Staundart forms	Catalan (regulatit bi theIEC) Valencian(regulatit bi theAVL)
Writin seestem	Latin(Catalan alphabet); Catalan Braille
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in	Latin Union Andorrae; Catalonie; Balearic Islands; Valencie Commonty;
Recognised minority; leid in	Fraunce(non-offeecial leid; o the depairtment; o thePyrénées-Orientales; an the ceety oPerpignan); Italy(offeecial leid o thecomune; oAlgheroinSardinie); Aragon(Spain)
Regulatit bi	Institut d'Estudis Catalans; Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua
Leid codes
ISO 639-1	ca
ISO 639-2	cat
ISO 639-3	cat
Linguasphere	51-AAA-e

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References

↑CatalanatEthnologue(16t ed., 2009)
↑^a ^bSome Iberian scholars may alternatively classify Catalan asIbero-Romance/East Iberie.
↑Laurie Bauer, 2007,The Linguistics Student’s Handbook,Edinburgh; also/kætəˈlæn/or/ˈkætələn/[1]