Principality of Catalonia, Kingdom of Valencia, Balearic islands, Sardinia
Era
9th–16th century, evolved into Modern Catalan by the 16th century[1]
Language family
Indo-European
Italic
Latino-Faliscan
Romance
Italo-Western
Western
Gallo-Romance
Occitano-Romance
Old Catalan
Early forms
Old Latin
Vulgar Latin
Proto-Romance
Old Occitan
Writing system
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3
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Glottolog
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Old Catalan, also known as Medieval Catalan, is the modern denomination for Romance varieties that during the Middle Ages were spoken in territories that spanned roughly the territories of the Principality of Catalonia, the Kingdom of Valencia, the Balearic Islands, and the island of Sardinia; all of them then part of the Crown of Aragon. These varieties were part of a dialect continuum with what today is called Old Occitan that reached the Loire Valley in the north and Northern Italy in the east. Consequently, Old Catalan can be considered a dialect group of Old Occitan,[citation needed] or be classified as an Occitano-Romance variety side by side with Old Occitan (also known as Old Provençal).[2]
The modern separation of Catalan and Occitan should not be confused with a clear separation between the languages in the mindset of their speakers historically. The dialects of Modern Catalan were still considered to be part of the same language as the dialects of Occitan in the 19th century, when Catalans still could call their language Llengua llemosina, using the name of the Limousin dialect as a metonymy for Occitan.
^Ferrando i Francès, Antoni; Nicolás Amorós, Miquel (2005). Història de la llengua catalana. Barcelona: UOC. pp. 173–177. ISBN 9788490290545. Retrieved 30 March 2019.
^Juge, Matthew. "The Position of Catalan in the Romance Language Family: Evidence from the Algherese Dialect". Retrieved 30 March 2019.
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