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There is consensus amongst linguists that Valencian is the name of the Catalan language which is spoken in the Autonomous Community of Valencia, Spain. It is thus the official name for one of two co-official languages declared in the Valencian Statute of Autonomy: Valencian ( Catalan) and Castilian ( Spanish).
The word is also used to refer to dialect of this territory to differentiate it from Catalan as a whole, or from the Catalan of Barcelona. In this sense it can be considered a sub-dialect of the Western Catalan variety, which also includes the varieties of the Aragonese Fringe, Lleida province and most of Tarragona province.
Note that, for many in the Valencian Community, the use of the term is a statement of belief in the idea that there is a language called Valencian which is quite separate from Catalan. This belief, which is not supported by linguistic fact, derives from political viewpoints that rightly or wrongly see Catalonia as an overbearing or even imperialistic force.
One of the first few pages of Tirant lo Blanch, by Joanot Martorell Catalan was brought to the territories that became the Kingdom of Valencia during the Reconquista. Whilst Castile moved south conquering New Castile and Andalusia, the Aragonese and Catalan settlers from the Crown of Aragon came and conquered Valencia. Most of these settlers came from South-West Catalonia, and to this day Valencian is almost indistinguishable from the dialect of these people.
Since Valencian is the same language as Catalan, both names can be used almost interchangeably, with "Catalan" emphasising the pan-Catalan nature of the language, and "Valencian" emphasising local features. The choice to use one name or the other is more a matter of politics than anything else. Maria Josep Cuenca, lecturer at the Department of Catalan Language Studies (note the name) of the University of Valencia, in her book El valencià és una llengua diferent? (BooksEnthsiast.com), notes that the number of people identifying with their Autonomous Community rather than with Spain is actually greater in Castile-La Mancha than in the Valencian Community. This is perhaps surprising in a region that is supposed to be one of the països catalans or Catalan countries. There is obviously a complicated mixture of feelings of belonging due to various historical events, and the result is that Catalan in Valencia is normally called "Valencian" and is often held to be a separate language, whereas in the Balearic IslandsComunitat Autonoma de les Illes Balears Comunidad Autonoma de las Illes Balears Capital Palma de Mallorca Official languages Catalan and Castilian Area total % of Spain Ranked 17th 4 992 km² 1,0% Population Total (2003) % of Spain Density Ranked 14th 916, Aragonese Fringe , AlgheroAlghero L'Alguer in Catalan and S'Alighera in Sardinian), is a town of about 35,000 inhabitants. It lies in the province of Sassari in north-eastern Sardinia, Italy. It is the historical centre. The people speak an ancient Catalan dialect because Catalan and RoussillonRoussillon ( Catalan Rossell is one of the historical Catalan counties corresponding roughly to the present-day southern French departement of Pyrenees-Orientales (Eastern Pyrenees). It is also called French Catalonia, but only a minority (40%) of its inh the local dialects are at least as different from the speech of Barcelona as Valencian is, and yet it does not occur to these speakers to call their language anything but Catalan.
There is no mention of Valencian or Catalan or any language other than Spanish in the Spanish Constitution of 1978The Spanish Constitution of 1978 is the culmination of the Spanish transition to democracy. The purpose of this article: discussion of the constitution in Spain, its history, sources, impact, implications, debated issues, relationship with European Union. The Autonomy Statute refers to the vernacular language as valencià, a name used traditionally since the fifteenth century14th century 15th century 16th century other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500. Events Renaissance affects philosophy, science and art. The New Monarchs come to power i. There is a private institution called Lo Rat Penat that campaigns for Valencian as a separate language with a different written norm and has firmly supported the motivated attempts of a minority of Valencian sectors (often related to right-wing political parties) to split Valencian and Catalan norms apart. However, their theories are not supported by universities or Romance-language experts. Officially, the rules for Valencian are decided by the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua, which follows the same rules as for the rest of the Catalan language, set by the Institut d'Estudis Catalans.
The latest political controversy regarding Valencian occurred on the occasion of the approval of the European Constitution in 2004. The Spanish government supplied the EU with translations of the text into Basque, Catalan, Galician, and Valencian, but the Catalan and Valencian versions were identical. While professing the unity of the Catalan language, the Spanish government claimed to be constitutionally bound to produce distinct Catalan and Valencian versions because the Statute of the Autonomous Community of Valencia calls the regional language "Valencian", while that of Catalonia calls its regional language "Catalan".
Catalan/Valencian is not spoken as much in the capital city of Valencia as it is in its surrounding areas. Spanish is the everyday language of most people, and in much cases the one used if the language of the other person is not known. As in Barcelona, the main reason for this is that cities are more cosmopolitan and attract more immigrants, who are likely to speak only Spanish.
Valencian was the home language of the Borgia family.
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