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Catalan language, Romance language spoken in eastern and northeastern Spain—chiefly in Catalonia and Valencia—and in the Balearic Islands. It is also spoken in the Roussillon region of France, in Andorra (where it is the official language), and in the city of Alghero, Sardinia, Italy. Catalan is spoken by some 9,000,000 people in Spain and some 125,000 in France, as well as by some 30,000 in Andorra and some 40,000 in Alghero, Linguistically, there are two main dialect groups in modern Catalan: the western dialects, including West Catalan and Valencian; and the eastern group, including East Catalan, Balearic, and Roussillonnais and ...(100 of 637 words)

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