dimecres, 13 de novembre del 2013

Catalan surpassed the ten million people in 2012

The dissemination and advanced learning Catalan in 2012 despite a hostile environment and the Catalan language for the first time surpassed the ten million speakers . This is the main conclusion of the report prepared CRUSCAT network of the Institut d' Estudis Catalans, commissioned by Omnium Cultural institutions and Platform for the Language . The study was released Wednesday and it establishes that Catalan health worsens not only but " progress on the road to linguistic normality " . That means that in that year the numbers of speakers of Catalan increased to 10.1 million , representing 72% of the population of the Catalan language ( Catalan , Catalan-speaking area of the Valencian Community , Balearic Islands , Andorra , the French region of Pyrenees - Orientales and the eastern fringe of Aragon ) .

The report also notes that 12.8 million people claim to understand Catalan , which means 91.7% of the population, and 7.3 million say they can write it ( 52.6 % ) . The report notes , however , which remain " imbalances " between different areas studied .

According to Muriel Casals , President of Omnium Cultural , the report reveals that there are negative points are " obsessive result of a policy against Catalan". Casals has addressed deficiencies observed oral competition in Valencia and Alicante and has blamed certain policies of the Generalitat Valenciana .

The Report of the Catalan language situació , prepared for the sixth consecutive year in Europe also includes Catalan is a language that occupy the middle and sixteenth place of the languages ​​of the EU-27 as the number of speakers , and seventh position in terms of those who have it as a second or third language, according to the Eurobarometer 2012. He adds that in this geographical area has a strong attraction of new speakers , which ranked seventh .

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