Balearic Catalan

Balearic
Balearic
Majorcan, Minorcan, Ibizan
balear ; mallorquí, menorquí, eivissenc
Native to	Spain
Region	Balearic Islands
Speakers of any Catalan; dialect in the islands	746,792 (2001)
Language family	Indo-European Italic Romance Western Romance Gallo-Romance Occitano-Romance Catalan Eastern Insular Balearic; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Proto-Indo-European Proto-Italic Old Latin Vulgar Latin Proto-Romance Old Occitan Old Catalan ; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Majorcan; Minorcan; Ibizan;
Writing system	Catalan alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
IETF	ca-u-sd-esib
	The Catalan-speaking territories with the Balearic Islands in red (■)
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Balearic (Catalan: balear [bəleˈa]) is the collective name for the dialects of Catalan spoken in the Balearic Islands: mallorquí in Mallorca, eivissenc in Ibiza and menorquí in Menorca.

At the 2011 census, 861,232 respondents in the Balearic Islands claimed to be able to understand either Balearic or mainland Catalan, compared to 111,912 respondents who could not; proportions were similar on each of the islands.^[1]

^ ^a ^b "2011 census, from Institut Balear d'Estadística, Govern de les Illes Balears". Caib.es. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
^ ^a ^b Some Iberian scholars may alternatively classify Catalan as Iberian Romance/East Iberian.

[ibestat-1] "2011 census, from Institut Balear d'Estadística, Govern de les Illes Balears". Caib.es. Retrieved 2022-06-30.

[alternative_classification-2] Some Iberian scholars may alternatively classify Catalan as Iberian Romance/East Iberian.

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Balearic
Majorcan, Minorcan, Ibizan
balear mallorquí, menorquí, eivissenc
Native to	Spain
Region	Balearic Islands
Speakers of any Catalan dialect in the islands	746,792 (2001)^[1]
Language family	Indo-European Italic Romance Western Romance Gallo-Romance^[2] Occitano-Romance^[2] Catalan Eastern Insular Balearic
Early forms	Proto-Indo-European Proto-Italic Old Latin Vulgar Latin Proto-Romance Old Occitan Old Catalan
Dialects	Majorcan Minorcan Ibizan
Writing system	Catalan alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
IETF	`ca-u-sd-esib`
The Catalan-speaking territories with the Balearic Islands in red (■)
This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA.