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[David Valls]

Dear Shawn

Catalan has very few dialectal differences, and there's also a continuum 
within the language, going up north in France to the very south in 
Spain. However, as with other dialects, Roussillonese or Northern 
Catalan dialect has some specific features not shared with other 
dialects across the border, in Spain. Some specific phonetic and syntax 
features, as well as some specific vocabulary, specially dealing with 
the fact that after more than 300 years of French rule, this Catalan has 
borrowed from the French language, while in the south, Catalan has 
borrowed from Spanish. However, there's mutual comprehension.

According to statistics ( https://www.idescat.cat/pub/?id=eulp&n=3646 ), 
only 11,8% of Catalan speakers in Spain do not switch to Spanish when 
someone addresses them into this language. So, perhaps you've talked to 
this 11,8%, which in Barcelona, believe me, it's much, much lower than 
11,8%. Sorry, but I don't get the relationship between being a foreigner 
and being addressed in Catalan. I've travelled quite a lot and in 
England people insisted me on English, in Japan insisted me on Japanese 
and so on. However, I can tell you of thousands of people who live in 
Catalonia for many years and insist on not speaking Catalan at all,  
this colonial behavior is one of the reasons -but not the only one-, why 
Catalan speakers must be bilinguals.

And yes, we are nice ;-) and the language in Southern Catalonia, 
Valencia and Balearic Islands is very alive, although not trouble free.

All the best,

David



El 10/2/2022 a les 14:31, Shawn Bedell ha escrit:
> Will definitely watch, but I used to live in Toulouse, and I took lots 
> of trips to Catalunya, where Catala is very alive and well. Is there a 
> great difference among the dialects when you cross the border or even 
> get into Barcelona (where people even sometimes insist on speaking 
> Catala over Spanish even to a foreigner, although most always very nice)?
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> On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 8:27 PM Mariona Miret <miretmariona at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>     Dear David,
>
>     Gràcies per compartir-lo.
>     It's heart-breaking. Every time I see it I feel the same.
>
>     I am glad that colleagues from all over the world can now
>     understand it, with subtitles in English and French.
>
>     Thank you for documenting the last speakers of Catalan in
>     Catalunya Nord.
>
>     Mariona
>
>     El dj., 10 febr. 2022 10.28, David Valls <davidvalls at gmail.com> va
>     escriure:
>
>         Dear all,
>          It's not on Australian languages -or perhaps, it is somehow-,
>         but I wish to share this documentary which I have co-directed.
>         It's about the last native speakers of the Catalan language
>         -and its local dialects- in Northen Catalonia (in the most
>         southern part of France). Now, we've got the English and
>         French subtitles:
>
>         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6rUG0xxXNM
>
>         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4ZHpq7Vpws
>
>         Thank you for your kind attention,
>         David Valls
>
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