Spanish is not the only language in spain man, what do you think ??!!
0 comments Posted by Akshaya at 2:51 PMI was in Paris and Barcelona recently and when myself and my friend retired to the camping, rested a while and started expressing our views and what we felt when I asked a spanish friend of mine why is every sign post or hoarding displayed in two languages, spanish and the other ? and which is that other language ?
He started with "Hmmm" and continued look, we have our own language and dont think that we belong to spain. We are catalonians rather. got it ?.
My next question was "what is Catalonia though?
Catalonia is a state in north eastern part of spain and is autonomous and federal is many aspects. Main language spoken is CATALAN. Similarly there are different regions in Spain that does not speak Spanish like Valentia where it is Valentiano, EUSKERA in Pais Vasco, GALLEGO in Gallicia, ARAGONESE, BASQUE, ASTURIAN and other dialects of Spanish. They soon diminished due to suppression of Spanish rulers but now due to UNESCO and laws concerning language and rights, they have their right and they have the authority to say " go away freaking spanish or speak our language ".
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