Indo-European family
Catalan
1500 CE – today Living
Catalan (1500 CE – today) is a living Indo-European language. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Italic → … → Vulgar Latin → Old Catalan → Catalan.
See Catalan on the interactive map- Speakers
- 4.1M (4,100,000)
- ISO 639-3
- cat
- Glottocode
- stan1289
Includes Valencian. Around 9 million people speak it including L2 speakers.
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
- Proto-Italicc. 1,500 BCE – 700 BCE
- Proto-Latino-Faliscanc. 1,000 BCE – 700 BCE
- Old Latinc. 700 BCE – 100 BCE
- Latin100 BCE – 300 CE
- Vulgar Latin300 CE – 800 CE
- Old Catalanc. 900 CE – 1500 CE
- Catalan1500 CE – today