Francesca Munoz, the principal at Sant Miquel primary school near Barcelona, is fighting a linguistic crusade that has fuelled a remarkable recovery of the local Catalan tongue – and of the ...

Many separatists say their Catalan language is what makes them feel most different from the rest of Spain. The language was prohibited during years of dictatorship, but now it's ubiquitous in schools.

Catalan is the language spoken in the Països Catalans (Catalonia, Valencia and Balearic Islands), in Spain, as well as in three other European states: France, Italy and Andorra. The territory where it ...

Throughout history, the language and culture of Catalonia have been suppressed. Spanish dictator Franco outlawed the speaking of Catalan between 1939 and 1975. That oppression of the language and ...

The history of the Blaugrana is about more than just football and it is tightly interwoven with the cause of Catalan ...

A version of this article appears in print on March 11, 2010, Section A, Page 10 of the New York edition with the headline: Trumpeting the Catalan Language, by Law, in Small Type on the Big Screen.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez ’s bid to have Catalan added as an official European Union language is running into problems, complicating his effort to draw the support of a separatist ...