Catalan has also become the language of the local government here ... Language educators from other countries look to Catalonia as an example but for some local parents the system isn’t working.

A vivid example of the difference is the Catalonian ban on bullfighting ... Though students will be practicing Spanish in Barcelona, they can also practice Catalan. This fall, the Catalan language ...

The former president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, described this as an example of “linguicide” by Spain. “Hatred of the Catalan language is a constant among many Spaniards,” he said.

Spain has revived a push for Basque, Catalan and Galician to be made official EU languages, despite a less-than-enthusiastic ...

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 ...

Loss of visibility of web content in the Catalan language, a reality For several months, web pages in Catalan have been losing the place in search engine results in favour of versions of the same ...

“Next week, we begin a second level in this offensive to defend Catalan as an official language in the EU,” Aragonès told the press after an event held at Bologna University, El Periódico ...

rule. The use of Catalan - a language as close to regional languages of southern France like Occitan as it is to Castilian Spanish - has equal status with Castilian. Read more country profiles ...

Adding a new language requires unanimous support among the 27 member states -- far from secured in this case. Speaking on Catalan television network 3Cat on Tuesday, Spain's foreign minister Jose ...