Language code: ca
Technical information about ISO 639 language code ca
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The table below provides technical details for the Catalan language, designated by the ca code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Catalan Native Català |
| Family | Romance |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Central CatalanNorthern CatalanBalearicNorthwestern CatalanValencianAlguerese |
| Related languages | OccitanSpanishAragoneseFrench |
| Key facts | Developed from Vulgar Latin alongside Occitan during the early Middle AgesStandard literary Catalan was first codified in the 1913–1918 Pompeu Fabra grammar and dictionary reformsThe language preserves the original Latin three-way deictic pronoun distinction (aquest, aqueix, aquell)It has two regulatory academies: Institut d’Estudis Catalans and Acadèmia Valenciana de la LlenguaThe first known printed book in Catalan appeared in 1474 |
| Sample phrase | Hola, com estàs? |
| Character encodings | |
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Catalan belongs to the Indo-European language family, more precisely to the Romance subgroup. It is the official language of Andorra, and it is also spoken in parts of Italy (specifically Alghero, Sardinia) and Spain (including Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, and the Valencian Community). It is written using the Latin script (Catalan alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 9 million speakers worldwide.
Language presence globally
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Catalan speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
Related locale codes
ca-AD – Catalan (Andorra)
ca-ES – Catalan (Spain)
ca-FR – Catalan (France)
ca-IT – Catalan (Italy)
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- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ