Talk:Demographics of Andorra

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[edit] Portuguese

How do there come to be so many Portuguese in a country not terribly near Portugal and where the official language is Catalan? - Jmabel | Talk 00:33, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

The reason is Portuguese posters keep writing that Portuguese is widely spoken in Andorra. Portugal (unlike Spain and France) has no historical links to Andorra nor is it in close geographic proximity to Portugal. The use of Portuguese by a tiny minority of residents is insignificant and would warrant also including English for the British residents who reside there. As a matter of fact if you include every language ever spoken by anyone who ever set foot in Andorra, the list would be endless. Historically and culturally, only Catalan, Spanish and French are significant in the context of this article and should be included. This is meant to be an encyclopedia not a forum for nationalist pandering and self-deification.

[edit] Nationality

I gather that Andorra follows ius sanguinis rather than ius soli. Reference it in the article. --84.20.17.84 11:11, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ethnic groups

Firstly, citation is needed for those figures. I think those figures may actually be for legal nationality/citizenship rather than ethnic group. I am not sure there even exists such an ethnic group as "Andorrans" (they have no wiki page), but rather they should be counted as Catalans. However, someone with more knowledge of this topic than me is undoubtedly needed. If no one else shows any interest in this, I shall simply change "Andorrans" to "Catalans" and leave it at that. Static Sleepstorm 09:56, 29 April 2007 (UTC)