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Catalan is a modern language and a subclass of Occitano-Romance. It is indigenous to Catalonia, the Valencian Community, Andorra, and the Franja del Ponent. The language is spoken in Spain, France, Andorra, and Italy. It has a native label of català or valencià. The regulatory body for the language is the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Catalan is a subject–verb–object, syllabic, nominative–accusative, and fusional language. It possesses grammatical gender in masculine and feminine forms. The language includes grammatical moods such as subjunctive, indicative, imperative, and conditional. It features tenses including simple present, present perfect, imperfect, and pluperfect. The language is divided into Eastern Catalan and Western Catalan. It uses the Catalan alphabet for writing.

There are 5,100,000 speakers, writers, or signers of Catalan. The language is part of the languages of Spain, Italy, and Andorra. It is categorized under the Catalan language and has related categories for films and music. The language is referenced by 5,117 other encyclopedia articles.