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In what was the first Catalan book printed on the Iberian Peninsula?
movable type
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When were Castille and Aragon united?
1479
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After 1479, what language became more valued?
Spanish
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When did Catalan literature begin a downward trend?
16th century
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What language began to supersede Catalan?
Spanish
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At this time what classes became bilingual?
urban and literary
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When was the Treaty of the Pyrenees?
1659
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What part of Catalonia did Spain give to France?
northern part
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Why did Spain give part of Catalonia to France?
Treaty of the Pyrenees
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What language began to influence Catalan?
French
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When did French become the official language of that part of Catalonia?
1700
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When did France outlaw Catalan?
1789
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What upheaval had occurred in France just before the prohibition of patois?
French Revolution
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Besides Catalan, Alsatian, and Breton, what other patois were banned?
Occitan, Flemish, and Basque
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What are French non standard languages called?
patois
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When did the French obtain Algeria?
1833
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Where did the Algiers immigrants come from?
Northern Catalonia and Minorca
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What was the Catalan immigrant's speech called?
patuet
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How many Catalan speakers lived in Algiers by 1911?
around 100,000
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When did most Catalan speakers leave northern Catalonia?
1962
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What is the official language of France?
French
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Where does the General Council want to promote Catalan?
in public life and education
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Who recognized Catalan as a departmental language?
General Council of the Pyrénées-Orientales
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What language does the General Council want to promote?
Catalan
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What declined in the 16th and 17th centuries?
Catalan
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Where did Catalan experience defeat?
War of Spanish Succession
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When was the war of Spanish Succession?
1714
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What did the war in 1714 mandate as the proper language in documentation?
Spanish
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Who was defeated in the War of Spanish Succession?
Catalan
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What did the 19th century produce in Catalan literature?
revival
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What is Renaixenca?
Catalan literary revival
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When did Aribau write Ode to the Homeland?
1833
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When did this revival period begin?
1833
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In what century did Vedaguer, Oller, and Guimera wrte?
early 20th
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Since the transition what language has been proclaimed mandatory in schools?
Catalan
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Where is the teaching of Catalan mandatory?
in all schools
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Since the transition, what is the official language?
Catalan
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Besides as an official and an educational language, where else is Catalan the prefered language?
mass media
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Where has Catalan always been the only language?
Andorra
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When was the Andorran constitution produced?
1993
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What policies are the Andorrans enforcing?
Andorranization policies
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What is an Andorran school policy?
Catalan medium education
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What is the only language of Andorra?
Catalan
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What kind of shifts are taking place in Catalan speaking areas?
language shift processes
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How old are most of the native language speakers in northern Catalonia?
60 or older
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When was it determined that most native speakers in France are 60 or older?
2004
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What percentage of primary students study Catalan as a foreign language?
30%
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What do 15% of secondary school students study as a foreign language?
Catalan
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What is Catalan being supplanted by in Alicante?
Spanish
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What is Catalan being replaced by in Alghero?
Italian
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What are the anti-Catalan attitudes in Valencia and Ibiza?
ingrained diglossic attitudes
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What is another expression for bilingual attitudes?
diglossic attitudes
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What is Spanish replacing in Alicante province?
Catalan
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To what branch of Gallo-Romance languages is Catalan attributed?
Occitano-Romance
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Who disagrees with putting Catalan in the Occitano-Romance branch?
linguists
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What kind of linguists do not like placing Catalan in the Occitano-Romance category?
Spanish ones
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What is Catalan a variety of?
Occitan language
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What are the degrees of similarity with Occitan and Gallo-Romance languages?
varying degrees
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What are there besides degrees of similarity with Occitan?
differences
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What does Catalan share with other Romance languages?
many traits
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Why does Catalan share many traits with other Romance languages?
closely related
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What does Catalan share with nearby Romance languages?
many traits
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Where is the Catalan language mostly located?
Iberian Peninsula
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In pronunciation what is Catalan different from?
Ibero-Romance group
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What are examples of Ibero-Romance languages?
Spanish and Portuguese
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To what group is Catalan most closely related?
Occitan
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What is the similarity between Catalan and Italian?
87%
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Hoe similar is Catalan to Portuguese?
85%
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What is the percent relationship of Catalan to Spanish?
80%
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What is the relationship similarity to Ladin?
76%
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How related is Sardinian to Catalan?
75%
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What has Catalan often been considered?
dialect of Spanish
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During what dictatorship was Catalan considered a dialect?
Francoist
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What area was Roman Tarraconensis language different from?
rest of Roman Hispania
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What language branch did Catalan share a history with?
Occitan
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What is Occitan a branch of?
Western Romance
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What is the origin of language elements found in Catalan and not in Spanish?
Germanic
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What is the origin of some Spanish words?
Latin origin
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What has different results in Spanish and Catalan?
Germanic superstrate
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What element in Spanish is more prominent than in Catalan?
Arabic element
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What language loanwords are found in both Spanish and Catalan?
Arabic loanwords
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In which language is the Arabic element stand out more?
Spanish
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Where does the Catalan word alfabia come from?
of Arabic origin
[ "Catalan_language\n\nThe same happens with Arabic loanwords. Thus, Catalan alfàbia \"large earthenware jar\" and rajola \"tile\", of Arabic origin, contrast with Spanish tinaja and teja, of Latin origin; whereas Catalan oli \"oil\" and oliva \"olive\", of Latin origin, contrast with Spanish aceite and aceituna. How...
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What is the origin of the Spanish word teja?
Latin origin
[ "Catalan_language\n\nThe same happens with Arabic loanwords. Thus, Catalan alfàbia \"large earthenware jar\" and rajola \"tile\", of Arabic origin, contrast with Spanish tinaja and teja, of Latin origin; whereas Catalan oli \"oil\" and oliva \"olive\", of Latin origin, contrast with Spanish aceite and aceituna. How...
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What are the linguistic blocks Catalan lies between?
Ibero-Romance and Gallo-Romance
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What kind of linguistic choices does Catalan have?
unique
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What type of unique choices does Catalan have?
lexical
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What is the Catalan to miss somebody?
enyorar
[ "Catalan_language\n\nSituated between two large linguistic blocks (Ibero-Romance and Gallo-Romance), Catalan has many unique lexical choices, such as enyorar \"to miss somebody\", apaivagar \"to calm down somebody\", or rebutjar \"reject\"." ]
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What are the Paisos Catalans
Catalan Countries
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What is that determination based on?
cultural affinity and common heritage
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What status does Catalan Countries have?
no official status
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What is the interpretation of the term?
Various interpretations
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What is the term for Catalan Countries?
Països Catalans
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How is Catalan different from other Romance languages?
many monosyllabic words
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What other type of endings do Catalan words have?
consonant clusters
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What kind of final devoicing does the language have?
obstruent
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What do many words feature?
couplets
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What is the standard pronunciation of Catalan?
Central Catalan
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What is Central Catalan?
standard pronunciation
[ "Catalan_language\n\nCentral Catalan is considered the standard pronunciation of the language. The descriptions below are mostly for this variety. For the differences in pronunciation of the different dialects, see the section pronunciation of dialects in this article." ]
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What are the descriptions for?
standard pronunciation
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