12 Facts About Valencian language

Valencian or Valencian language is the official, historical and traditional name used in the Valencian Community, and unofficially in the El Carche comarca in Murcia, to refer to the Romance language known as Catalan.

Some most important works of Valencian language literature experienced a golden age during the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Law of Use and Education of Valencian language develops this framework, providing for implementation of a bilingual educational system, and regulating the use of Valencian language in the public administration and judiciary system, where citizens can freely use it when acting before both.

Survey shows that, although Valencian is still the common language in many areas in the Valencian Community, where slightly more than half of the Valencian population are able to speak it, most Valencians do not usually speak in Valencian in their social relations.

One curiosity in the heartlands mentioned above, is that most of the children of immigrants go to public school and are therefore taught in Valencian language and are far more comfortable speaking this with their friends.

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However, some children of Valencian speakers go to private schools run by the Church where the curriculum is in Spanish and consequently this becomes their preferred language.

Valencian language vocabulary contains words both restricted to the Valencian language-speaking domain, as well as words shared with other Catalan varieties, especially with Northwestern ones.

Since Standard Valencian is based on the Southern dialect, words from this dialect are often used as primary forms in the standard language, despite other words traditionally being used in other Valencian dialects.

In other cases, Valencian language includes colloquial forms not present in the IEC standard.

Standard Valencian language is based on the standard of the Institute of Catalan Studies, used in Catalonia, with a few adaptations.

All the other autonomous communities in Spain, including the monolingual ones, have public-service broadcasters, with the Valencian language Community being the only exception despite being the fourth most populated.

Valencian language is classified as a Western dialect, along with the North-Western varieties spoken in Western Catalonia .