| SO WHAT IS CATALAN ANYWAY? Catalan is the native tongue and nationality of the people of an area that has a total population of about 10,000,000 people around the Barcelona area. Unfortunately, the awareness of the Catalan language in the United States is very low, despite being taught at major universities such as U.C. Berkeley, the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C., as well as Oxford in the United Kingdom. So if you're one of the Americans that have seen this page and thought to yourself "Cata-what?", then just click on the map of Neo-Latin languages below to start learning more about this intriguing and beautiful language. |