Thirty Words From Northern Catalonia that Everyone Should Know

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Northern Catalan (also called the “Roussillon dialect”) is little known to speakers in the rest of the country. To begin with, many Catalans living under Spanish rule are unaware that our language is also spoken north of the Pyrenees. For many, those lands are simply “the south of France” or, at best, “French Catalonia”. A miraculous survival Northern Catalonia contains five counties: Roussillon, Conflent, Vallespir, Capcir and Alta Cerdanya. To…