Catalan IPA: [ˈkʰæ.təˌlæn] (català IPA: [kə.tə'la] or [ka.ta'la]) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra, and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencia (in the latter with the name of Valencian), and in the city of L'Alguer in the Italian island of Sardinia. It is also spoken, although with no official recognition, in the autonomous communities of Aragon (in La Franja) and Murcia (in El Carxe) in Spain, and in Northern Catalonia, a historical region of Catalonia in southern France, which is more or less equivalent to the département of the Pyrénées-Orientales.

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In Vassfforcia Catalan is a national language and there are about 15 million native speakers. It is spoken mainly in the northwest third of the country (Umperia, Vilnia and Septéntrion) and in Montaura and parts of Filibustenia and Tirritidivá Island. From these regions, media transmits on Catalan only in Montaura and the northwest. Because of the distribution of Catalan in the country there has been much discussion about making it an official language since the Reform of 52; however, the Grand Senate has never passed any resolution issuing this.