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	Catalan language - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		According to the Ethnologue, its specific classification is a member of the East Iberian branch of the Ibero-Romance branch of the Gallo-Iberian branch of the Western branch of the Italo-Western branch of the Romance branch of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language famiily.
		Catalan developed by the 9th century from Vulgar Latin on both sides of the eastern part of Pyrenees mountains (counties of Rosselló (Roussillon), Empuries, Besalú, Cerdanya, Urgell, Pallars and Ribagorça).
		Catalan was exported in the 13th century to Balearic Islands and the newly created Valencian Kingdom by the Catalan and Aragonese invaders (note that the area of Catalan language still extends to part of what is now the region of Aragon).
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /catalan_language.htm (1325 words)

	Hiperenciclopèdia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Catalan Hyperencyclopaedia is a project that has been developed by the Comissionat per a la Societat de la Informació and Enciclopèdia Catalana.
		Taken directly from the documentary collections of the Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana, the first encyclopaedia of universal scope ever written in Catalan about Catalonia, this work will now be available to the public in English.
		Llibres.com: our catalan bookshop in internet, with all the books published in catalan.
	www.catalanencyclopaedia.com (187 words)

	Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The group is formed by different publishing companies whose objective is to promote the Catalan language and the culture, specially by means of the editing: encyclopedias, dictionaries (like the Catalan-Spanish-English Hyperdictionary), text books and works of Catalan and universal Literature.
		Between the foreign authors translated to the Catalan, we have published classic authors (Gustave Flaubert, J.W. Goethe, Franz Kafka, Honoré de Balzac, Virginia Woolf, Albert Camus, William Faulkner) and the most outstanding authors of our present: George Steiner, Isaiah Berlin, Amin Maalouf, Marguerite Yourcenar, Elias Canetti, Paul Auster or Lynn Margulis.
		Also it summons diverse aids to the creation and the investigation, in social humanities and sciences, and promotes different activities directed to professors and students from different educative cycles: scholarships, courses and factories of writing.
	www.enciclopedia-cat.com /ftp/grec/fundacio/quisom.htm (377 words)

	Mary Martin's Catalan Home Page (English)
		Try a search for some famous Catalans such as Salvador Dalí, Pau Casals or Antoni Gaudí.
		VilaWeb — Very good source of Catalan resources on the Internet.
		These pages are designed for being read with Firefox in English or Catalan
	www.catalunya-lliure.com /indexeng.html (135 words)

	Catalan Links
		TravLang Catalan for Travelers Basic words and phrases, with audio
		Viva Costadaurada Phrasebook Catalan phrases and basic vocabulary with translations in English and Spanish
		Orbis Latinus Catalan Grammar Descriptive grammar of the Catalan language
	www.vocab.co.uk /links/catalan.htm (64 words)

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