Catalan
Catalan is a Romance Language of the West branch.
It has over 4,000,000 mother tongue speakers in Spain, plus several hundred
thousand in, France, Italy, Andorra (official language) and the USA. It is quite similar to the Occitan language.
Catalan is the own language in a large territory whose main part is in Spain , but also in Andorra, France and Italy (Sardinia island).
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