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Valencian
valencià
Pronunciation
[valensiˈa,ba-]
Native to
Spain
Region
Valencian Community, Region of Murcia (Carche) See also geographic distribution of Catalan
Ethnicity
Valencians
Native speakers
2.4 million (2004)[1]
Language family
Indo-European
Italic
Latino-Faliscan
Romance
Italo-Western
Western
Gallo-Romance[2]
Occitano-Romance[2]
Catalan
Western Catalan[3]
Valencian
Early forms
Proto-Indo-European
Proto-Italic
Old Latin
Vulgar Latin
Old Occitan
Old Catalan
Writing system
Valencian orthography (Latin script)
Official status
Official language in
Spain
Valencian Community
Recognised minority language in
Spain
Carche, Region of Murcia
Regulated by
Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua (AVL)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
–
ISO 639-6
vlca
Glottolog
None
IETF
ca-valencia
Map of the Valencian Community, Valencian speaking areas in green
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Verbs (Conjugation)
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History
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History of Valencia
Crown of Aragon
Principality of Catalonia
Kingdom of Majorca
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Catalan Constitutions
Valencian Law
Treaty of the Pyrenees
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Geo-political divisions
Andorra
Aragon (La Franja)
Balearic Islands
Ibiza
Majorca
Minorca
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Murcia (El Carxe)
Occitania
Sardinia (L'Alguer)
Valencia See Catalan Countries
Government and politics
General Council of Andorra (Politics)
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Generalitat of Catalonia (Politics)
General Council of the Pyrénées-Orientales (Politics)
Generalitat of Valencia (Politics) See Catalan and Valencian nationalism
Traditions and symbols
Cuisine
Myths and legends
Symbols
Traditions
Caganer
Castells
Correfoc
Falles
Fogueres de Sant Joan
Gegants i capgrossos
Moros i cristians
Muixeranga
Diada de Sant Jordi
Sardana
Tió de Nadal
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Pa amb tomàquet
Paella
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Rumba catalana
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Valencian[a] (valencià)[b] or the Valencian language[4] (llengua valenciana)[c] is the official, historical and traditional name used in the Valencian Community of Spain to refer to the Romance language
also known as Catalan,[d][5][6][7][8][9] either as a whole[e] or in its Valencia-specific linguistic forms.[f][10][11] The Valencian Community's 1982 Statute of Autonomy and the Spanish Constitution officially recognise Valencian as the name of the regional language.[4][12]
Valencian displays transitional features between Ibero-Romance languages and Gallo-Romance languages. According to philological studies, the varieties of this language spoken in the Valencian Community and El Carche cannot be considered a single dialect restricted to these borders: the several dialects of Valencian (Alicante's Valencian, Southern Valencian, Central Valencian or Apitxat, Northern Valencian or Castellon's Valencian and Transitional Valencian) belong to the Western group of Catalan dialects.[13][14]
There is a political controversy within the Valencian Community regarding its status as a glottonym or as an independent language, since official reports show that the majority of the people in the Valencian Community consider it as a separate language, different from Catalan, although the same studies show that this percentage decreases among younger generations and people with higher studies.[15][16] According to the 2006 Statute of Autonomy, Valencian is regulated by the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua,[4] following the legacy established by the Castelló norms,[17] which adapt Catalan orthography to Valencian idiosyncrasies.
Some of the most important works of Valencian literature experienced a golden age during the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Important works include Joanot Martorell's chivalric romance Tirant lo Blanch, and Ausiàs March's poetry. The first book produced with movable type in the Iberian Peninsula was printed in the Valencian variety.[18][19] The earliest recorded chess game with modern rules for moves of the queen and bishop was in the Valencian poem Scachs d'amor (1475).
^Luján, Míriam; Martínez, Carlos D.; Alabau, Vicente. Evaluation of several Maximum Likelihood Linear Regression variants for language adaptation(PDF). Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008. p. 860. the total number of people who speak Catalan is 7,200,000, (...). The Valencian dialect is spoken by 27% of all Catalan speakers. citing Vilajoana, Jordi, and Damià Pons. 2001. Catalan, Language of Europe. Generalitat de Catalunya, Department de Cultura. Govern de les Illes Balears, Conselleria d'Educació i Cultura.
^ abSome Iberian scholars may alternatively classify Catalan as Iberian Romance/East Iberian.
^Wheeler 2006.
^ abc"Ley Orgánica 1/2006, de 10 de abril, de Reforma de la Ley Orgánica 5/1982, de 1 de julio, de Estatuto de Autonomía de la Comunidad Valenciana" (PDF). Generalitat Valenciana. 10 April 2006. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
^"Valenciano, na". Diccionario de la Real Academia Española (in Spanish). Real Academia Española. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
^«Otra sentencia equipara valenciano y catalán en las oposiciones, y ya van 13.» 20 minutos, 7 January 2008.
^Decreto 84/2008, de 6 de junio, del Consell, por el que se ejecuta la sentencia de 20 de junio de 2005, de la Sala de lo Contencioso-Administrativo del Tribunal Superior de Justicia de la Comunitat Valenciana.
^"no trobat". sindicat.net.
^"La AVL publica una 'Gramàtica Valenciana Bàsica' con las formas más "genuinas" y "vivas" de su tradición histórica". 20minutos.es. Europa Press. 22 April 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
^Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua (9 February 2005). "Acord de l'Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua (AVL), adoptat en la reunió plenària del 9 de febrer del 2005, pel qual s'aprova el dictamen sobre els principis i criteris per a la defensa de la denominació i l'entitat del valencià" (PDF) (in Valencian). p. 52. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
^Institut d'Estudis Catalans. "Resultats de la consulta:valencià". DIEC 2 (in Valencian). Retrieved 23 February 2016. 2 6 m. [FL] Al País Valencià, llengua catalana.
^"Dictamen sobre los Principios y Criterios para la Defensa de la Denominación y entidad del Valenciano" (PDF). It is a fact the in Spain there are two equally legal names for referring to this language: Valencian, as stated by the Statute of Autonomy of the Valencian Community, and Catalan, as recognised in the Statutes of Catalonia and Balearic Islands.
^Alcover, Antoni Maria (1983). Per la llengua (in Catalan). Barcelona: Secció de Filologia Catalana, Universitat de Palma. p. 37. ISBN 9788472025448. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
^Moll, Francesc de Borja (1968). Gramàtica catalana: Referida especialment a les Illes Balears [Catalan grammar: Referring especially to the Balearic Islands] (in Catalan). Palma de Mallorca: Editorial Moll. pp. 12–14. ISBN 84-273-0044-1.
^Baròmetre d'abril 2014 (PDF) (Report). Presidència de la Generalitat Valenciana. 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 April 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
^"Casi el 65% de los valencianos opina que su lengua es distinta al catalán, según una encuesta del CIS" [Almost 65% of Valencians think that their language is different from Catalan, according to a CIS survey]. La Vanguardia. 9 December 2004. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
^"Ley 7/1998, de 16 de septiembre, de Creación de la Academia Valenciana de la Lengua" (in Spanish). pp. 34727–34733 – via Boletín Oficial de España.
^Trobes en llaors de la Verge Maria ("Poems of praise of the Virgin Mary") 1474.
^Costa Carreras & Yates 2009, pp. 6–7.
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