Where are Catalan, Galician and Basque spoken in Spain?

Catalan is official in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, and called Valencian in the Valencian Community; Galician is official in Galicia and very close to Portuguese; Basque, related to no known language, is official in the Basque Country and north Navarre. Aranese is also official in Catalonia.

Where each language is spoken

  1. Catalan (català) — and Aranese Catalan is official in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands. In the Val d'Aran, Aranese, a form of Occitan, is a third official language of Catalonia.
  2. Valencian (valencià) The region's statute calls its language Valencian; the Valencian academy holds that Valencian and Catalan are one language with two names.
  3. Galician (galego) Very close to Portuguese: in the Middle Ages they were one language.
  4. Basque (euskara) Not from Latin; related to no known language. San Sebastián is also Donostia, and both names are official.
  5. Basque, in the north Official only in the Basque-speaking north of Navarre.
  • Article 3 of the 1978 Constitution makes Castilian the official language of the State and says the other Spanish languages are also official in their autonomous communities, in line with their statutes.
  • Six autonomous communities have at least one official language besides Castilian: Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, the Valencian Community, Galicia, the Basque Country and Navarre.
  • Catalan is official in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands and is the only official language of Andorra; in the Valencian Community the language is called Valencian.
  • Aranese, a form of Occitan from the Val d'Aran, is official in all of Catalonia under the 2006 statute, giving the region three official languages.
  • Galician is official in Galicia and very close to Portuguese; a Galician and a Portuguese speaker understand each other fairly well.
  • Basque is official in the Basque Country and part of Navarre. It does not come from Latin and no related language is known; linguists call it a language isolate.
  • Asturian and Aragonese are protected by law but not official.
En España no se habla solo español.

In Spain not only Spanish is spoken.

El catalán es oficial en Cataluña y en las Islas Baleares.

Catalan is official in Catalonia and in the Balearic Islands.

El gallego es oficial en Galicia, en el noroeste de España.

Galician is official in Galicia, in the north-west of Spain.

El euskera es oficial en el País Vasco y en una parte de Navarra.

Basque is official in the Basque Country and in part of Navarre.

No se conoce ninguna lengua pariente del euskera.

No language related to Basque is known.

More about The languages of Spain

Sources

  1. The languages of Spain — Las lenguas de España
  2. Las lenguas de España — The languages of Spain
  3. Constitución Española (BOE-A-1978-31229), artículo 3 — Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado