Catalan - Catalan (English spelling)

Japanese: カタルニャ語 - カタルニャご(英語表記)Catalán
Catalan - Catalan (English spelling)
A Romance language. It was originally derived from Latin, which was rooted in the area stretching from the eastern end of the Pyrenees to the Mediterranean coast. It is currently spoken in the Catalonia region of Spain, most of the Valencia region, the Balearic Islands, Andorra (as the official language of the Principality), the Roussillon region of France, and the town of Alghero in northwestern Sardinia (where it was transplanted in the 14th century). The total speaker population is estimated at about 7 million. While Catalan shares characteristics with other Romance languages ​​of the Iberian Peninsula (Spanish, Portuguese), it also shares some commonalities with Occitan, a language of southern France with which it is geographically and historically closely related (such as the loss of unstressed Latin final vowels, except for -a).

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
ロマンス語に属する言語。元来ピレネー山脈東端から地中海岸にかけての地域に根づいたラテン語を源として形成されたもので,現在ではスペインのカタルニャ地方のほか,バレンシア地方の大部分,バレアレス諸島,アンドラ(同公国の公用語として),フランスのルーシヨン地方,サルデーニャ島北西部の町アルゲロ(14世紀に移植される)で使用されている。全言語人口は約700万人と推定される。カタルニャ語はイベリア半島の他のロマンス語(スペイン語,ポルトガル語)と共通の特徴を有する一方,地理的・歴史的につながりの深い南フランスのオック語との共通点(‐aを除くラテン語の非強勢語末母音の脱落など)も少なからず示している。

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