Kyung-Hee Kim. 2001. Characteristics of Catala′n Language and Its Relation with Neighboring Languages, Studies in Modern Grammar 23, 203-200. The primary purpose of this paper is to show that the Catala′n language is not a Spanish dialect as we believe in Korea. For historical reasons, this language is related more to Occitan, which is a southern French language, than to Spanish, in spite of Catala′n`s location within the Iberian peninsula. Actually Catalan is considered a bridge-language between the Iberomance and Galloromance languages. This paper shows you how it compares to and contrasts with neighboring languages, especially in phonology and lexicology. In these fields, it`s most similar to Occitan, and then to French, Portuguese, and Spanish in descending order.

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