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Catalan IPA: [ˌkʰætəlˈæn] (català IPA: [kə.tə'la] or [ka.ta'la]) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra and one of several co-official languages in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands. Spain has the majority of active Catalan speakers. It is spoken or understood by approximately 7 million people (although approximately only half of them have it as a mother language) who live not only in Andorra and Spain but also in parts of southwestern France (most of Pyrénées Orientales) and in the city of Alghero in Sardinia, Italy.
