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2. Catalan language - Wikipedia

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   The word Catalan is derived from the territorial name of Catalonia, itself of disputed etymology.The main theory suggests that Catalunya (Latin: Gathia Launia) derives from the name Gothia or Gauthia ('Land of the Goths'), since the origins of the Catalan counts, lords and people were found in the March of Gothia, whence Gothland > Gothlandia > Gothalania > Catalonia theoretically derived.

3. Catalan grammar - Wikipedia

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   Word order is freer than in English. [1] Some distinctive features of Catalan among Romance languages include the general lack of masculine markers (like Italian -o), a trait shared with French and Occitan; and the fact that the remote preterite tense of verbs is usually formed with a periphrasis consisting of the verb "to go" plus infinitive.

4. Lists of spelling-to-sound correspondences in Catalan

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   These are lists of spelling-to-sound correspondences in the Catalan language. The two main standard forms ( Standard Catalan and Standard Valencian ) are used as primary transcriptions norms of their respective spelling forms.

5. Catalan orthography - Wikipedia

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   Catalan is a pluricentric language; the pronunciation of some of the letters is different in Central Eastern Catalan and Valencian . Apart from those variations, the pronunciation of most consonants is fairly straightforward and is similar to French, Occitan or Portuguese pronunciation.

6. List of calques - Wikipedia

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   Examples of Romance language expressions calqued from foreign languages include: French lune de miel , Catalan lluna de mel , Spanish luna de miel , Portuguese lua-de-mel , Italian luna di miele and Romanian luna de miere calque English honeymoon

7. Catalan verbs - Wikipedia

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   About 86 percent of Catalan verbs belong to this group. Examples include estimar ("to love"), esperar ("to wait" and "to hope"), menjar ("to eat") and pensar ("to think"). This is the only open verb class; new verbs incorporated into the language are likely to follow this conjugation model.

8. Catalan syntax - Wikipedia

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   The neutral order of sentences is shown by the examples for each of the above types: subject, verb (and complements) for type 1; subject, verb and attribute for type 2; no subject for type 3 and verb followed by a noun phrase for type 4. In general, however, Catalan is an SVO language.

9. Languages of Catalonia - Wikipedia

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   According to the linguistic census elaborated by the Government of Catalonia corresponding to 2008, 45.92% of citizens over 15 years old declared Spanish as their [only] habitual language of use, versus 35.64% for Catalan, with 11.95% of complete bilinguals; a larger number claims Catalan as "their own language" (37.25% Catalan compared to 46. ...