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Catalan languageMember of the Romance branch of the Indo-European language family, an Iberian language closely related to Provençal in France. It is spoken in Cataluña in northeastern Spain, the Balearic Islands, Andorra, and a corner of southwestern France. Since the end of the Franco regime in Spain 1975, Catalan nationalists have vigorously promoted their regional language as being equal in importance in Cataluña to Castilian Spanish, and it is now accepted as an official language of the European Union. The official languages of the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona were English, French, Spanish, and Catalan. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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To measure the field, Claude Catala of the Observatory of Paris and his colleagues examined the Son of Pere Catala i Pic, a Catalan photographer associated with the Republicans and author of a well-known image of a peasant's shoe stepping on a swastika, Catala-Roca set up his professional studio at a very young age. A 5-ton bobtail utility truck owned by Tidwell Excavating had been parked on Catala Avenue as crews worked with a Southern California Edison crew on a cable-splicing job. |
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