Catalan/Valencian
català/valencià
Pronunciation	[kətəˈla]/[valensiˈa]
Native to	Spain, Andorra, France, Italy
Native speakers	4.1 million  (2012) Total number of speakers: More than 10 million (L1 plus L2; 2018)
Language family	Indo-European Italic Romance Western Romance Gallo-Romance Occitano-Romance Catalan/Valencian
Early forms:	Old Catalan Catalan/Valencian
Standard forms	Catalan (regulated by the IEC) Valencian (regulated by the AVL)
Writing system	Latin (Catalan alphabet) Catalan Braille
Official status
Official language in	Andorra Also in 3 communities of Spain:  Balearic Islands  Catalonia  Valencian Community (as Valencian)
Recognised minority language in	Alghero (Sardinia, Italy)  Aragon (Spain) Pyrénées-Orientales (France)
Regulated by	Institut d'Estudis Catalans Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua
Language codes
ISO 639-1	ca
ISO 639-2	cat
ISO 639-3	cat
Linguasphere	51-AAA-e
Territories where Catalan is spoken and is official      Territories where Catalan is spoken but is not official      Territories where Catalan is not historically spoken but is official
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Where Catalan is spoken.

The Catalan language is a Romance language spoken in Catalonia, Valencian Community, the eastern part of Aragon, the Balearic Islands, a small zone of Murcia (all of them in Spain), Andorra, North Catalonia (in France) and the Italian city of L'Alguer. Together, those places are often called the Catalan Countries.