Northern Catalan

Northern Catalan
Roussillonese
català septentrional
rossellonès
Native toFrance
RegionNorthern Catalonia
EthnicityCatalans
Early forms
Catalan alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3
IETFca-FR
A map of the French department of Oriental Pyrenees with most of the areas highlighted but for the middle north.
The areas of French Oriental Pyrenees where Catalan is spoken in orange.
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Northern Catalan (Catalan: català septentrional),[a] also known as Roussillonese (rossellonès),[b] is a Catalan dialect mostly spoken in Northern Catalonia (roughly corresponding with the region of Roussillon), but also extending in the northeast part of Southern Catalonia in a transition zone with Central Catalan.[1][2] All speakers of Catalan from North Catalonia are at least natively bilingual with French.[3]


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  1. ^ Argenter, Joan A.; Lüdtke, Jens (2020-04-06). Manual of Catalan Linguistics. de Gruyter. pp. 382–383. ISBN 978-3-11-045040-8.
  2. ^ Feldhausen, Ingo (2010-11-25). Sentential Form and Prosodic Structure of Catalan. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 5. ISBN 978-90-272-8759-5.
  3. ^ Kircher, Ruth; Zipp, Lena (2022-07-07). Research Methods in Language Attitudes. Cambridge University Press. p. 342. ISBN 978-1-108-49117-4.