Catalan leid

Catalan
	català
Pronunciation	[kətəˈɫa] (EC) ~ [kataˈɫa] (WC)
Native tae	Andorrae, Fraunce, Italy, Spain
Region	See; geographic distribution o Catalan
Ethnicity	Catalans
Native speakers	11.5 million (2009)
Leid faimily	Indo-European Italic Romance Wastren Gallo-Romance Occitano-Romance Catalan; ; ; ; ; ;
Early form	Old Catalan
Staundart forms	Catalan (regulatit bi the IEC) Valencian (regulatit bi the AVL)
Writin seestem	Latin (Catalan alphabet); Catalan Braille
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in	Latin Union Andorrae; Catalonie; Balearic Islands; Valencie Commonty;
Recognised minority; leid in	Fraunce (non-offeecial leid; o the depairtment; o the Pyrénées-Orientales; an the ceety o Perpignan); Italy (offeecial leid o the comune; o Alghero in Sardinie); Aragon (Spain)
Regulatit bi	Institut d'Estudis Catalans; Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua
Leid codes
ISO 639-1	ca
ISO 639-2	cat
ISO 639-3	cat
Linguasphere	51-AAA-e

Catalan Inglis pronunciation: /ˈkætəlæn/^[3] (autonym: català [kətəˈɫa] or [kataˈɫa]) is a Romance leid, the naitional leid o Andorrae, an co-offeecial leid o the Spaingie autonomous communities o Balearic Islands, Valencia (unner the name Valencian) an Catalonie. It is spak in the sooth-wast neuk o Fraunce an aw. It is spak an unnerstuid bi as mony as 12 million fowk.

References

↑ Catalan at Ethnologue (16t ed., 2009)
1 2 Some Iberian scholars may alternatively classify Catalan as Ibero-Romance/East Iberie.
↑ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh; also /kætəˈlæn/ or /ˈkætələn/