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Valencian government finally accepts Catalan and Valencian are the same language

After about thirty court sentences declaring that Catalan and Valencian are the same language, the Valencian Government has -implicitly- accepted it. In Valencia, the Partido Popular has long been playing meanly with the linguistic issue, trying to gain politic support among the “blaverisme” movement while depicting Catalans (and thus the Catalan language) as a menace [...]

Catalan in the European institutions

Last week, Catalan MEP Oriol Junqueras tabled a block of 17 parliamentary questions in respect of each of the Spanish government’s failures to comply with agreements concerning Catalan: 5 questions to the European Council, 4 to the Commission, 3 to the Parliament and 5 to the Ombudsman.

As the Horitzó Europa think-tank recently pointed out, the [...]

Normal presence of Catalan in cinemas gets closer than ever

The Catalan Government, through its Minister of Culture, Joan Manel Tresserras, has long been working on a new law to make it possible for Catalan citizens to choose whether they want to watch a film in Catalan, Spanish or in its original version. Nowadays, 89,3% of film projections in Catalan cinemas are in [...]

Forget about administrative agreements: Catalan must be official

The Spanish Government is playing the victim when it comes to making Catalan a normal language in Europe. As Ireland did with gaelic, Spain could simply ask the Council of Europe to accept Catalan as just another official language in the Union. The petition would need to be unanimously approved by all member [...]

Google books welcomes Catalan

Good news came yesterday as the Catalan version of Google Books (a search engine for digitalized books) was officially presented at the National Library of Catalonia (BNC). More than 35.000 books from the National Library have been digitalized within the framework signed by both parts in 2007. By this agreement the National Library [...]

Catalan Wikipedia ranked third in quality

The Catalan Wikipedia has now more than 175.000 articles.

The Catalan Wikipedia (Viquipèdia) is growing steadily both in number of articles and quality. If just a few months ago surpassed the 175.000 articles, now it has obtained the third place in a ranking that evaluates the excellence of the Wikipedias [...]

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