What's the difference between Spanish and Catalan? Does Catalonia speak Spanish?

Spanish is not a small language! ! It is the third largest language in the world (the first two are Chinese and English), referred to as "Spanish". In Central and South America, most countries use Spanish, and many non-Spanish-speaking countries like the United States also have many Spanish users. Spanish name Espa? Ol itself means no national boundaries. ...

As one of the six working languages of the United Nations, Spanish is widely used not only in Spain, but also in other parts of the world: in 19 countries in Latin America (except Brazil and Haiti); Four states in the United States also use Spanish as the common language, and have their own Spanish radio stations, TV stations, newspapers and magazines. The Philippines in Asia also uses Spanish in part; It is also Equatorial Guinea in Africa, and Spanish is also spoken in Western Sahara. Nearly 400 million people around the world speak Spanish.

Beautiful Spanish is known as "the language of dialogue with God". Long before China joined the WTO, Spanish became more and more popular. Now, it is more and more widely used in China. Therefore, learning Spanish has gradually become a foreign language that people attach importance to.

Spanish belongs to the Indo-European family >: Romantics > It is generally believed that Spanish has 29 letters, including five vowel letters A, E, I, O, U, 1 semi-vowel letter Y. However, due to historical reasons, a considerable number of Arabic words in Spanish, such as almohada and some words with similar structures, are basically derived from Arabic. With the development of the times, the connection of the whole world is increasing day by day, and the Spanish vocabulary is constantly enriched and updated. In the Spanish words, it is "Un espa? Hello, Spanish? Olers generally refers to a Spaniard, but different Spanish-speaking countries and regions in the world also have their own distinctive dialects. Almost every Spanish-speaking country has its own Spanish vocabulary. For example, chevere is a typical Venezuelan Spanish word. To the delight of China people, there are some China words in Spanish. For example, in Peru, when people say "Vamos al Chifa", it means "let's eat Chinese food". I saw many "Chifa" in Lima in 2003, which turned out to be Chinese restaurants. I guess they used our meal as a restaurant (insert Qifa in Peru). For another example, Dominicans say "Chaofán", which often means "fried rice" in China.

Castilian also means Spanish.

If you look for Spanish audio-visual materials on an international website like ReaLOnePlay, you can't find Spanish options in the drop-down menu of language selection anyway ... No Spanish materials? It's impossible. Spanish is such an important and widely used language because these websites express Spanish in Castilian instead of Spanish.

Castilla means Castellano in Spanish, and there is a Chinese translator named Castilla. It is said that Spanish originated from Castilian in Spain, so people also call pure Spanish Castilian, which is Castilian in English.

history

Spanish is developed from vulgar Latin and influenced by Basque and Arabic. The typical feature of Spanish pronunciation is the weakening and palatalization of consonants. The same phenomenon can be found in most Romanesque languages.

Medieval consonant systems are better preserved in Jewish-Spanish. This language was used by the descendants of Jews who were expelled from Spain in the15th century.

Spanish in the world

Spanish is the official language of the African Union, the European Union and the United Nations. In the 2nd/10th century, Spanish was used as the official language in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Tobago and Western Sahara.

There are many different Spanish dialects in Spain and Spain America. The pronunciation of Castilla dialect in northern Spain is usually considered as the standard pronunciation of Spanish.

In America, the first Spaniards brought their localism. Today, you can still find that there are obviously different dialect accents in different parts of the United States.

Catalan (hereinafter referred to as Canadian), also called Valencia in some areas, belongs to the Indo-European Romance family and is one of the official languages of Spain. About 65,438+0,200,000 users are located in Spain, France, Andorra and Italy, most of which are in Spain.

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Catalan is the official language of Andorra. It is also one of the official languages of Catalonia, Rilke and Valencia. Although Argonne uses Catalan, it is not the official language of Argonne. It was not until 1990 that Catalan gained some legal recognition in Argonne. Catalan is not the official language in other regions where Catalan is spoken.

geographical distribution

It is estimated that the number of Catalan speakers ranges from 4 million to12 million.

6? 1 Catalan is spoken in the following regions:

6? 1 Catalonia, Spain.

6? 1 Aragon, Spain, especially comarques in Baixa Ribagor? One, Ilitra? 6? 1baixinca and Matarranya.

6? 1 Balearic Islands, Spain

6? 1 Andorra.

6? 1 In some parts of the Spanish archipelago of Valencia, the local language is called Valencia.

6? 1 Catalonia * * and China in northern France.

6? 1 L 'Alguere, Sardinia, Italy.

6? 1A A small region of Murcia, Spain, which is called Erkas in Castilian and Elca in Catalan.

history

Catalan is spoken on both sides of the East Pyrenees (roussillon, Empress, Salou, Cerda, Urger, pallas, Ribagol? A) It evolved from the vulgar Latin in the 9th century. It shares many characteristics with Gaul Romance and Iberian Romance. It can be said that in the beginning, it was just a special dialect of Oaksey Tan. Catalan spread to the south through the Spanish territorial recovery movement, and spread to Barcelona and tarragona, Lerida and Tortosa, the ancient kingdom of Valencia, the Balearic Islands and L 'Alguere (or Alghero) in Sardinia at different stages.

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The Canadian alphabet consists of [[Latin letters]], using all 26 letters and 10 variants with [[phonetic symbols]].

Catalan alphabet

A a B b C c D d E e F f G g H h I i J j K k L l M m N n O o

P p Q q R r S s T t U u V v W w X x Y y Z z

Accessory phonetic symbol

à ? é è í ? ó ò ú ü

example

Some common Catalan phrases (pronounced in the central dialect-Barcelona):

6? 1 Catalan: Català /k? 0? 5t？ 0? 5? 0? 4l/

6? 1 hello: hola/? 0? 4? 0? 0l？ 0? 5/

6? 1 Goodbye: adéu/? 0? 5? 0? 40? 7w/ (singing. ); adéu siau /？ 0? 5? 0? 40? 7w si？ 0? 4aw/ (pl。 )

6? 1 excuse me: si us plau /sis? 0? 4pl w/

6? 1 Thank you: gràcies/? 0? 4grɑ si？ 0? 5s/； mercès /m？ 0? 5r？ 0? 4s？ 0? 7s/

6? 1 sorry: perdó /p? 0? 5r？ 0? 4? o/

6? 1 that: aquest/? 0? 5? 0? 4k？ 0? 7t/ (masc。 ); aquesta /？ 0? 5? 0? 4k？ 0? 7st？ 0? 5/ (finite element. )

6? 1 How much? :quant val？ /? 0? 4kwɑ m？ 0? 4bɑl/； Quantum mechanics? /? 0? 4kwɑ n？ 0? 4tes/

6? 1 Yes: sí/? 0? 4si/

6? 1 no: no/? 0? 4no/

6? 1 I don't understand: No ho entec/? 0? 4no w？ 0? 5n？ 0? 4te？ 0? 7/

6? 1 Where is the bathroom? :on és el bany？ /? 0? 4on？ 0? 4ez？ 0? 5l？ 0? 4βa？ 0? 9/; In El Lavabo? /? 0? 4on？ 0? 4ez？ 0? 5l？ 0? 4l？ 0? 5? 0? 4ββu/

6? 1 General Toast: Salute! /s？ 0? 5? 0? 4 lut/；

6? Do you speak English? Can you speak English? /k？ 0? 5 ? 0? 4 pal? 0? 5 l？ 0? 5n？ 0? 4gl？ 0? 7s/

6? Do you speak Catalan? Do you speak Catalan? /k？ 0? 5 ? 0? 4 pal? 0? 5l k？ 0? 5t？ 0? 5? 0? 4 ft

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Common phrases in different languages

Catalan Institute

Pompeii Fabra

Catalan literature

French

Italian

Spanish

Catalonia name

New Catalan top-level domain name. Valencia is the official name of one of the local languages used in Valencia autonomous region in history, and it is one of the important dialect variants of Catalan.

It can be said that Valencia mainly speaks Catalan.