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SUMMARY:Catalan: past\, present and future - Dr Víctor Acedo Matellán\, 
 University of Cambridge\, Queens' College
DTSTART:20141203T171500Z
DTEND:20141203T190000Z
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CONTACT:Afra Pujol i Campeny
DESCRIPTION:The aim of this talk is to present a survey of the history of 
 the Catalan language and its state nowadays. With 4\,080\,000 speakers (Et
 hnologue\, 2014)\, ranking no. 17 by number of articles in Wikipedia and b
 eing the only official language of one European State (Andorra)\, Catalan 
 cannot be described as a minority language\, at least not in comparison wi
 th the languages dealt with in previous CEL&CG talks. However\, Catalan is
  certainly minorised and discriminated against\, as evidenced by the offic
 ial treatment it receives with respect to the corresponding state language
  —Spanish\, French or Italian. Minorisation encourages substitution\, wh
 ich is reflected in the language's lexical resources and structure. The fu
 ture of Catalan\, therefore\, is not guaranteed. Krauss's 1992:7 ominous p
 remonition ("the coming century will see whether the death or the doom of 
 90% of mankind's languages") may very well affect this Romance language to
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LOCATION:Faculty of English\, Room GR-06/07
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