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)[1]
Leid faimily	Indo-European Italic Romance Wastren Gallo-Romance[2] Occitano-Romance[2] Catalan
Early form	Old Catalan
Staundart forms	Catalan (regulatit bi the IEC) Valencian (regulatit bi the AVL)
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 the Pyrénées-Orientales an the ceety o Perpignan)  Italy (offeecial leid o the comune o Alghero in Sardinie)  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

Catalan Inglis pronunciation: /ˈkætəlæn/^[3] (autonym: català [kətəˈɫa] or [kataˈɫa]) is a Romance leid, the naitional leid o Andorrae, an co-offeecial leid o the Spaingie autonomous communities o Balearic Islands, Valencia (unner the name Valencian) an Catalonie. It is spak in the sooth-wast neuk o Fraunce an aw. It is spak an unnerstuid bi as mony as 12 million fowk.

1. ↑ Catalan at Ethnologue (16t ed., 2009)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Some Iberian scholars may alternatively classify Catalan as Ibero-Romance/East Iberie.
3. ↑ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh; also /kætəˈlæn/ or /ˈkætələn/[1]