Valencian language

Valencian
Valencian
valencià
Pronunciation	Template:IPA- or Template:IPA-va-
Native to	Spain
Region	Valencia, Murcia (Carche) ; See also geographic distribution of Valencian
Ethnicity	Valencians
Native speakers	2.4 million (2004)
Language family	Indo-European Italic Romance Western Gallo-Romance Occitano-Romance Valencian Western Valencian Valencian; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Valencian orthography (Latin script)
Official status
Official language in	Spain: Valencian Community
Regulated by	RACV
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	val

Valencian (valencià) is the historical, traditional, and official name used in the Valencian Community (Spain) for the language spoken in this region.

In linguistics "Valencian" is also used to identify this distinctive variant spoken in central and southern Valencia which has gained its own currency within the idioma valenciano.

Language or dialect?

The official authorities, which are the government of the Valencian Community and the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua, accept Valencian as a dialect of Catalan. The Real Acadèmia de Cultura Valenciana and several associations disbelieve this opinion. They believe Valencian is a language in its own. They also accuse the official authorities of mixing Valencian with Catalan. This is done by approaching the Valencian ortography and grammar to the Catalan one.

References

↑ Míriam Luján; Carlos D. Martínez; Vicente Alabau, Evaluation of several Maximum Likelihood Linear Regression variants for language adaptation (PDF), Proceedings of the sixth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008, the total number of people who speak Valencian is 7,200,000, (...). The Valencian idioma is spoken by 27% of all Valencian speakers. citing Vilajoana, Jordi, and Damià Pons. 2001. Valencian, Language of Europe. Generalitat Valenciana, Department de Cultura. Govern de les Illes Balears, Conselleria d’Educació i Cultura.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Some Iberian scholars may alternatively classify Valencian as Iberian Romance/East Iberian.
↑ Wheeler, Max H. (2006). "Valencian". Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-08-044299-0.

[1] Míriam Luján; Carlos D. Martínez; Vicente Alabau, Evaluation of several Maximum Likelihood Linear Regression variants for language adaptation (PDF), Proceedings of the sixth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008, the total number of people who speak Valencian is 7,200,000, (...). The Valencian idioma is spoken by 27% of all Valencian speakers. citing Vilajoana, Jordi, and Damià Pons. 2001. Valencian, Language of Europe. Generalitat Valenciana, Department de Cultura. Govern de les Illes Balears, Conselleria d’Educació i Cultura.

[alternative_classification-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Some Iberian scholars may alternatively classify Valencian as Iberian Romance/East Iberian.

[3] Wheeler, Max H. (2006). "Valencian". Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-08-044299-0.

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