Some people, ( mainly in Spanish / Catalan ), use the BCN acronym.

* Catalan people

Category: Catalan people

A small proportion of people in Alghero speak a Catalan dialect, introduced when Catalan invaders repopulated the town after capturing the city from the Genoese in 1353 and subsequently expelling the indigenous population.

The epicentre of the Catalan earthquake of 1428 that killed hundreds of people was near Camprodon.

Category: Dominican Republic people of Catalan descent

As of 2001, most people in the Val d ' Aran spoke Spanish ( 38. 78 %) as their native language, followed by Aranese ( 34. 19 %), then Catalan ( 19. 45 %) with 7. 56 % having a different native language.

Category: Puerto Rican people of Catalan descent

Category: Puerto Rican people of Catalan descent

Romanization in the area was extremely slow, even though eventually the native language gave way, and the people in Cerdanya ended up speaking Catalan, a language derived from Latin.

Category: Puerto Rican people of Catalan descent

Category: Puerto Rican people of Catalan descent

Today, more than half a million people a year attend musical performances in the Palau that range from symphonic and chamber music to jazz and Cançó ( Catalan song ).

Category: Puerto Rican people of Catalan descent

Category: Puerto Rican people of Catalan descent

Category: Mexican people of Catalan descent

Category: Cuban people of Catalan descent

Also, people in Roussillon, with their distinct Catalan culture, might object to being incorporated into a very large Languedoc region where their identity could become diluted.

Category: Puerto Rican people of Catalan descent

# REDIRECT Catalan people

Some people wrongly apply this name only to the Council as if it were the same as Cabinet only ; however, Generalitat de Catalunya is the ( autonomous ) Catalan system as a whole.

It has two main dialectal branches ( Eastern and Western Catalan ) and several subdialects, being spoken by about 12 million people ( ranking the seventy-fifth most spoken language in the world ), mostly in five variants: Central Catalan, Northern Catalan, North-Western Catalan, Valencian and Balearic.

Catalan influence can be seen in the cuisine here with dishes like brandade made from a purée of dried cod wrapped in mangold leaves.

* the plural form of nouns in-i ( ghjanni or polti ' doors ') like in Corsican and Italian, and not in-s like in Sardinian ( jannas, portas ), French, Spanish, Catalan, etc.

In about the year 1500 many Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese lutenists adopted vihuela de mano, a viol-shaped instrument tuned like the lute, but both instruments continued in coexistence.

Currently, the festivals of moros y cristianos ( Castilian ), moros i cristians ( Catalan ), mouros e cristãos ( Portuguese ) and mouros e cristiáns ( Galician ), these meaning " Moors and Christians ", recreate the fights as colorful parades with elaborate garments and lots of fireworks, especially on the central and southern towns of the Land of Valencia, like Alcoi, Ontinyent or Villena.

While the official languages are Catalan and Spanish, other major languages like English, Italian, German, French and Dutch can also be heard extensively in the summer due to mass tourism.

Miró's surrealist origins evolved out of " repression " much like all Spanish surrealist and magic realist work, especially because of his Catalan ethnicity, which was subject to special persecution by the Franco regime.

Some contemporary Catalan authors, such as Josep Pla, Jaume Fàbrega or Eliana Thibaut i Comalada, and others like Colman Andrews, have suggested that, besides Catalonia proper, this cuisine takes in the Balearic and Valencian cuisines, but this opinion is challenged as politicised, and is not widespread, nor is supported by either the Catalan, Balearic or Valencian government.

Catalan nationalists in Roussillon would like the Pyrénées-Orientales department to secede from Languedoc-Roussillon and become a region in its own right, under the proposed name of " Catalunya Nord " ( Northern Catalonia ), as part of the Països Catalans ( Catalan Countries ), a new country.

Regional identification is most pronounced today in cultures linked to regional languages and non-French-speaking traditions-French language itself being only a dialect of Langue d ' oïl, the mother language of many of the languages to-be-mentioned, which became a national vehicular language, like ( in alphabetical order ): Alsatian, Arpitan, Basque, Brezhoneg ( Breton ), Burgundian, Corsu ( Corsican ), Català ( Catalan ), Francique, Gallo, Lorrain, Norman, Occitan, Picard, Poitevin, Saintongeais, etc., and some of these regions have promoted movements calling for some degree of regional autonomy, and, occasionally, national independence ( see, for example, Breton nationalism, Corsica and Occitania ).

Catalan Kiko Veneno and Joaquín Sabina are popular performers in a distinctly Spanish-style rock music, while Sephardic musicians like Aurora Moreno, Luís Delgado and Rosa Zaragoza keep alive-and-well Andalusian Sephardic music.

El castellano ( Castilian ) by contrast, is more often used when contrasting the language with other regional languages of Spain: official languages like Basque, Catalan and Galician or unofficial ones like Aragonese, Asturian, Extremaduran, Leonese and so on.

One example of the pronunciation is the a at the end of the word that is pronounced like an e. The local dialect, properly known as North-Western Catalan is part of the Western Catalan block, and as such, shares some features with Valencian ( whose dialects are also part of that group ).

The Bishop ," Unamuno gestured to the Archbishop of Salamanca, " whether you like it or not, is Catalan, born in Barcelona.

Additionally, the popularisation of the compulsory national educational system and the development of modern mass media, both controlled by the State and in Spanish language, and heavily reduced the number of speakers of Basque, Catalan and Galician, as happened during the second half of the 20th century with other European minority languages which were not officially protected like Scottish Gaelic or French Breton.

This has been cited both as a symptom of having large sectors in the average populace disengaged or at odds with the politics of identity in Catalonia, and, alternatively, as a symptom of fatigue among Catalan nationalists who would like to see bolder steps towards political autonomy or independence.

Some distinctive features of Catalan among Romance languages include the general lack of masculine markers ( like Italian-o ), a trait shared with French and Occitan ); and the fact that the preterite tense of verbs is usually formed with a periphrasis consisting of the verb " to go " plus infinitive.

Publishing in Catalan never ceased completely, though, even though only a few notable authors like Salvador Espriu did publish in this language in the first years of the Franco dictatorship.

Some literary awards in Catalan had been established as early as 1947 ( Premi Joanot Martorell ) and many other contests followed, like the Premi Carles de la Riba ( 1950 ), the Victor Català ( 1953 ) or the Lletra d ' Or ( 1956 ).

Andorran folk music has similarities to the music in nearby regions of France and Spain, but is especially Catalan in character, especially in the presence of dances like the sardana.

The system allows visitors to use their Smart phones to read about all the main artefacts in languages like French, Spanish, Portrugese, Japanese, Russian, Belarusian, Indonesian, Czech, Esperanto, Finnish and Catalan as well as some support for languages such as more unusual offerings like Anglo Saxon, Latin and Cossack.