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Balearic (Catalan: balear)[a] is the collective name for the dialects of Catalan spoken in the Balearic Islands: mallorquí in Mallorca, eivissenc in Ibiza and menorquí in Menorca.
At the 2011 census, 861,232 respondents in the Balearic Islands claimed to be able to understand either Balearic or mainland Catalan, compared to 111,912 respondents who could not; proportions were similar on each of the islands.[1]
^ ab"2011 census, from Institut Balear d'Estadística, Govern de les Illes Balears". Caib.es. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
^ abSome Iberian scholars may alternatively classify Catalan as Iberian Romance/East Iberian.
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