加泰隆尼亞語地區

Catalan Countries Països Catalans
Template:Catalan Countries(In darker grey, Catalan-speaking area) The concept of the Catalan Countries includes territories of the following sovereign states:
State	Territory
西班牙	加泰罗尼亚 巴伦西亚 巴利阿里群岛 阿拉贡 (for Western Strip) 穆尔西亚 (for Carche)
法國	Northern Catalonia in the Pyrénées-Orientales department
安道尔	Catalan is the official language
義大利	Alghero (撒丁大区)

加泰羅尼亞語地區（Països Catalans，東加泰羅尼亞語：[pəˈizus kətəˈɫans]，西加泰羅尼亞語：[paˈizos kataˈlans]）是指所有使用加泰羅尼亞語作為口語來使用的地區。

這個概念最早出現在19世紀後期，但其當時影響力從未超出一個加泰羅尼亞作家群體。直到1960年代晚期和1970年代初期，隨著弗朗哥體制在西班牙的逐漸瓦解，這一詞彙逐漸從文化概念變為政治概念。因此，長期以來受到抑制的加泰羅尼亞語文學也開始復活。

不同的定義

加泰羅尼亞語地區這一詞彙有不同的定義。大致可分為兩類，既有語言上的也有政治上的。 has different meanings depending on the context. These can be roughly classified in two groups: linguistic or political, the political definition of the concept being the widest, since it also encompasses the linguistic side of it.

就語言學方面來說，加泰羅尼亞語地區這一概念類似于英語的英語圈、法語的法語圈、葡萄牙語的葡萄牙語地區或西班牙語的西班牙語地區。

作為一個政治術語，它指的是加泰羅尼亞獨立運動所倡導獨立的地區。These, based on the linguistic fact, argue for the existence of a common national identity that would surpass the limits of each territory covered by this concept and would apply also to the remaining ones. These movements advocate for "political collaboration" amongst these territories. This often stands for their union and political independence. As a consequence of the opposition these political projects have received –notably in some of the territories described by this concept– some cultural institutions avoid the usage of Països Catalans in some contexts, as a means to prevent any political interpretation; in these cases, equivalent expressions (such as Catalan-speaking countries) or others (such as the linguistic domain of Catalan language) are used instead.

構成部份

Template:Catalan-speaking world Catalan is spoken in:

• the Spanish autonomous communities of
  • Catalonia — even though in the comarca of Val d'Aran, Occitan is considered the language proper to that territory;
  • Aragon, in a Catalan-speaking area named "La Franja" ("The Strip");
  • the Balearic Islands and
  • as Valencian, in the Valencian Community, with the exception of some western and southern comarques where Spanish is the only language spoken;
    • Carche, a small Valencian-speaking area in the Spanish autonomous community of Murcia;

• Andorra, a European sovereign state where Catalan is the national and only official language.

• most of the French department of the Pyrénées-Orientales, also called Le Pays Catalan (The Catalan Country) in French or Catalunya (del) Nord (Northern Catalonia) in Catalan;

• the Italian city of Alghero, in the island of Sardinia, where a variant of Catalan is spoken.

Catalan is the official language of Andorra, co-official with Spanish and Occitan in Catalonia, co-official with Spanish in the Balearic Islands and the Valencian Community —with the denomination of Valencian in the latter— and co-official with Italian in the city of Alghero. It is also part of the recognized minority languages of Italy along with Sardinian, also spoken in Alghero.

It is not official in Aragon, Murcia or the Pyrénées-Orientales, even though on 10 December 2007 the General Council of the Pyrénées-Orientales officially recognized Catalan, along with French, as a language of the department. In 2009, the Catalan language was declarated llengua pròpia (with Aragonese language) of Aragon.

The estelada, a separatist symbol, is often regarded as the flag of the Catalan Countries, especially the red-star version

Graffiti on Belfast's Falls Road

Graffiti in Argentona. It reads "for the unity of the language and the Països Catalans"

Graffiti in Vilassar de Mar, which reads "One nation, Països Catalans! One language, Catalan!"