Northern Catalan
Dialect of Catalan spoken in Roussillon, France / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Northern Catalan (Catalan: català septentrional),[lower-alpha 1] also known as Rossellonese (rossellonès),[lower-alpha 2] is a Catalan dialect mostly spoken in Northern Catalonia (roughly corresponding with the region of Roussillon), but also extending in the northeast part of Southern Catalonia in a transition zone with Central Catalan.[1][2] All speakers of Catalan from North Catalonia are at least natively bilingual with French.[3]
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Northern Catalan | |
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Roussillonese | |
català septentrional rossellonès | |
Native to | France |
Region | Northern Catalonia |
Ethnicity | Catalans |
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Catalan alphabet | |
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ISO 639-3 | – |
IETF | ca-FR |
The areas of French Oriental Pyrenees where Catalan is spoken in ■ orange. |
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