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Treaty of the Pyrenees
Why did Spain give part of Catalonia to France?
French
What language began to influence Catalan?
1700
When did French become the official language of that part of Catalonia?
1789
When did France outlaw Catalan?
French Revolution
What upheaval had occurred in France just before the prohibition of patois?
Occitan, Flemish, and Basque
Besides Catalan, Alsatian, and Breton, what other patois were banned?
patois
What are French non standard languages called?
1833
When did the French obtain Algeria?
Northern Catalonia and Minorca
Where did the Algiers immigrants come from?
patuet
What was the Catalan immigrant's speech called?
around 100,000
How many Catalan speakers lived in Algiers by 1911?
1962
When did most Catalan speakers leave northern Catalonia?
French
What is the official language of France?
in public life and education
Where does the General Council want to promote Catalan?
General Council of the Pyrénées-Orientales
Who recognized Catalan as a departmental language?
Catalan
What language does the General Council want to promote?
Catalan
What declined in the 16th and 17th centuries?
War of Spanish Succession
Where did Catalan experience defeat?
1714
When was the war of Spanish Succession?
Spanish
What did the war in 1714 mandate as the proper language in documentation?
Catalan
Who was defeated in the War of Spanish Succession?
revival
What did the 19th century produce in Catalan literature?
Catalan literary revival
What is Renaixenca?
1833
When did Aribau write Ode to the Homeland?
1833
When did this revival period begin?
early 20th
In what century did Vedaguer, Oller, and Guimera wrte?
Catalan
Since the transition what language has been proclaimed mandatory in schools?
in all schools
Where is the teaching of Catalan mandatory?
Catalan
Since the transition, what is the official language?
mass media
Besides as an official and an educational language, where else is Catalan the prefered language?
Andorra
Where has Catalan always been the only language?
1993
When was the Andorran constitution produced?
Andorranization policies
What policies are the Andorrans enforcing?
Catalan medium education
What is an Andorran school policy?
Catalan
What is the only language of Andorra?
language shift processes
What kind of shifts are taking place in Catalan speaking areas?
60 or older
How old are most of the native language speakers in northern Catalonia?
2004
When was it determined that most native speakers in France are 60 or older?
30%
What percentage of primary students study Catalan as a foreign language?
Catalan
What do 15% of secondary school students study as a foreign language?
Spanish
What is Catalan being supplanted by in Alicante?
Italian
What is Catalan being replaced by in Alghero?
ingrained diglossic attitudes
What are the anti-Catalan attitudes in Valencia and Ibiza?
diglossic attitudes
What is another expression for bilingual attitudes?
Catalan
What is Spanish replacing in Alicante province?
Occitano-Romance
To what branch of Gallo-Romance languages is Catalan attributed?
linguists
Who disagrees with putting Catalan in the Occitano-Romance branch?
Spanish ones
What kind of linguists do not like placing Catalan in the Occitano-Romance category?
Occitan language
What is Catalan a variety of?
varying degrees
What are the degrees of similarity with Occitan and Gallo-Romance languages?
differences
What are there besides degrees of similarity with Occitan?
many traits
What does Catalan share with other Romance languages?
closely related
Why does Catalan share many traits with other Romance languages?
many traits
What does Catalan share with nearby Romance languages?
Iberian Peninsula
Where is the Catalan language mostly located?
Ibero-Romance group
In pronunciation what is Catalan different from?
Spanish and Portuguese
What are examples of Ibero-Romance languages?
Occitan
To what group is Catalan most closely related?
87%
What is the similarity between Catalan and Italian?
85%
Hoe similar is Catalan to Portuguese?
80%
What is the percent relationship of Catalan to Spanish?
76%
What is the relationship similarity to Ladin?
75%
How related is Sardinian to Catalan?
dialect of Spanish
What has Catalan often been considered?
Francoist
During what dictatorship was Catalan considered a dialect?
rest of Roman Hispania
What area was Roman Tarraconensis language different from?
Occitan
What language branch did Catalan share a history with?
Western Romance
What is Occitan a branch of?
Germanic
What is the origin of language elements found in Catalan and not in Spanish?
Latin origin
What is the origin of some Spanish words?
Germanic superstrate
What has different results in Spanish and Catalan?
Arabic element
What element in Spanish is more prominent than in Catalan?
Arabic loanwords
What language loanwords are found in both Spanish and Catalan?
Spanish
In which language is the Arabic element stand out more?
of Arabic origin
Where does the Catalan word alfabia come from?
Latin origin
What is the origin of the Spanish word teja?
Ibero-Romance and Gallo-Romance
What are the linguistic blocks Catalan lies between?
unique
What kind of linguistic choices does Catalan have?
lexical
What type of unique choices does Catalan have?
enyorar
What is the Catalan to miss somebody?
Catalan Countries
What are the Paisos Catalans
cultural affinity and common heritage
What is that determination based on?
no official status
What status does Catalan Countries have?
Various interpretations
What is the interpretation of the term?
Països Catalans
What is the term for Catalan Countries?
many monosyllabic words
How is Catalan different from other Romance languages?
consonant clusters
What other type of endings do Catalan words have?
obstruent
What kind of final devoicing does the language have?
couplets
What do many words feature?
Central Catalan
What is the standard pronunciation of Catalan?
standard pronunciation
What is Central Catalan?
standard pronunciation
What are the descriptions for?
section pronunciation
Where do you look for the pronunciation of different dialects?
Vulgar Latin
Where does Catalan get its vowel system?
seven
How many stressed phenoms are there?
Western Romance
Where is this a common feature?
Spanish
What is the exception to this common characteristic?
Dialects
What differs in vowel reduction?
three
How many reduced unstressed are vowels are there in Central Catalan?
/i/
What vowel stays distinct?