Catalan is a
Romance language spoken by some 7-8 million people, in Catalonia, noth Catalonia (France), the Valencian Country and the Balearic Islands (all these also known as the Catalan Countries). It is also spoken in the Sardinian city of l'Alguer (Alghero). The phonemes of Catalan:
Plosives
/p, b/
/t, d/
/k, g/
Affricates
/tS, dZ/ tx, tg
/ts, dz/ ts, tz
Nasals
/m, n, n_j/ m, n, ny
Fricatives
/f, s, S, z, Z/ f,s, x, z, j also /v/, v in the valencian dialect
Liquida
/l, l_j/ l, l.l; ll
/r, R/
El Català és una llengua parlada per aproximadament 7-8 milions de persones, a Catalunya, País Valencià, Illes Balears i Pitïuses (Països Catalans) i a la ciutat de l'Alguer, a la costa oriental de Sardenya.
We have a wikipedia project written in Catalan,
[Catalan Wikipedia]
(Also, we need a good English-language article about Catalan langauge here.)