Northern Catalan
Roussillonese
català septentrional
rossellonès
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RegionNorthern Catalonia
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IETFca-FR
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Northern Catalan (Catalan: català septentrional),[a] also known as Rossellonese (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]

Phonetics

Phonetic features of Northern Catalan include:

Morphology

Some subdialects keep the singular masculine definite article lo, as in North-Western Catalan and many varieties of Occitan.

Northern Catalan has a large body of words imported from French and Occitan.[4] It also features some grammatical forms and structures that are typical of Occitan, such as the use of a lone post-verbal pas, rather than a lone preverbal no to express basic negation (Northern Catalan canti pas vs. Central Catalan no canto, 'I don't sing' or 'I'm not singing'); pas is also used in some other Catalan dialects for emphasis but always with no before the verb (Central Catalan no canto pas, 'I do not sing' or 'I am not singing').

Notes

  1. ^ Catalan pronunciation: [kətəˈla səptəntɾiuˈnal]
  2. ^ Catalan pronunciation: [rusəʎuˈnɛs]

References

  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.
  4. ^ Hawkey, James (2018-04-12). Language Attitudes and Minority Rights: The Case of Catalan in France. Springer. pp. 29–37. ISBN 978-3-319-74597-8.
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