Quels sont les pays catalans ?
Quels sont les pays catalans ?
Les Pays catalans (en catalan : Països Catalans) désignent les territoires de culture catalane où le catalan est parlé. Ces territoires sont actuellement répartis entre l'Andorre, l'Espagne, la France (Pyrénées-Orientales) et l'Italie (L'Alguer en Sardaigne).
What is the origin of the Catalans?
- The Catalans ( Catalan, French and Occitan: catalans; Spanish: catalanes, Italian: catalani) are a Romance ethnic group native to Catalonia of mediterranean and Pyrenean descent, having its roots in the Pyrenees mountains. The current official category of "Catalans" is that of the citizens of Catalonia,...
How many Catalans live in the Pays Catalan?
- At least 100,000 Catalan speakers live in the Pays Catalan in France. An indeterminate number of Catalans emigrated to the Americas during the Spanish colonial period and to France in the years following the Spanish Civil War.
What language is closest to Catalan?
- It is the language closest to Occitan, and it also shares many features with other Romance languages such as Spanish, French, Portuguese, Aragonese, and Italian. There are a number of linguistic varieties that are considered dialects of Catalan, among them, the dialect group with the most speakers, Central Catalan .
What happened to the Catalans in Spain and France?
- In France, strong assimilationist policies integrated many Catalans into French society, while in Spain a Catalan identity was increasingly suppressed in favor of a Spanish national identity. The Catalans regained autonomy during the Spanish Second Republic from 1932 until Francisco Franco 's nationalist forces retook Catalonia by 1939.
