Catalan Observations Prior to Reading The Time of the Doves: D Block by Dalzell

Kendra

2015-03-16 13:30:24 UTC

1. Catalan derived from Vulgar Latin spoken by Romans in the area, not Spanish.

2. Catalan was a language repressed by Phillip V when he implemented Spanish law.

3. Catalan is spoken today by at least 9.5 million people.

Items I Learned Today, Bianca

2015-03-16 13:31:51 UTC

I didn't know that Catalan is not a dialect of Spanish. This may affect our study of our novel because the culture of the people is not known by as many people today. Only 9.5 Million people speak the language. I would think it would be a larger number. This sets up the setting of where this takes place and how it may be about a smaller society. I think it's also interesting how the capital and lowercase letters sometimes have a different name. This may affect the way we study the text because of the way it is translated.

Use of Catalan (Tyler)

2015-03-16 13:32:19 UTC

It is really only contained today in northeastern Spain, and the only country in the world uses it as an official language is the micro nation of Andorra, smaller than Rhode Island

Axel

2015-03-16 13:33:17 UTC

After the democracy was restored in 1978, Catalan was used more frequently and freely.

Renaixeci

2015-03-16 13:33:56 UTC

It's cool how Catalina was revived in the 19th century with the new political party renaixecia, however it was short lived Justin DA

Catalan Phrase (Noah)

2015-03-16 13:35:32 UTC

The phrase for "please" is "si us plau"

Adam 1

kaminskiadam1 — 2015-03-16 13:36:04 UTC

Half of the Catalan population considers their mother tongue as Spanish. Some charecters might show a dislike to people who don't consider Catalan as their mother to

Brian Aphram

2015-03-16 13:37:33 UTC

Catalan is actually derived from vulgar Latin. It's not a dialect of Spanish. 😯

Catalan Phrase (Noah)

2015-03-16 13:38:49 UTC

The Catalan word for "beer" is "cervesa"

Daniela 1

2015-03-16 13:38:57 UTC

I thought it was interesting how Catalan was put down during the Spanish Succession and yet was revived during a period of Renaixença with literature

kaminskiadam1 — 2015-03-16 13:39:31 UTC

Something that I found interesting ~ Erika

2015-03-16 13:40:23 UTC

i think it's crazy how they were able to repress a language that was spoken by a whole community, and they could even be punished.

Adam 2

kaminskiadam1 — 2015-03-16 13:41:23 UTC

in 1939 the fascist regime Tried to stomp out Catalan. Charecters might show hatred or distrust in the government of fascism

Chris

2015-03-16 13:41:23 UTC

Those who speak Catalan are generally bilingual due to the heavy Spanish influence in areas such as media.

Architects of Catalan (Emily Stone

2015-03-16 13:41:33 UTC

One of the articles talked about Antoni Gaudi. I already knew some information about him, but I learned that he created the Park Guell.

Similar to Spanish & French (Tyler

2015-03-16 13:42:10 UTC

A lot of words are the same I. Either language, like Sì, etc in Spanish, and Bland and Merci in French

2015-03-16 13:42:30 UTC

Catalan is the only vehicular language taught In state schools.

Chris

2015-03-16 13:42:50 UTC

Catalan dates back as far as the 11th century.

Something I learned (Emily Stone)

2015-03-16 13:43:40 UTC

I found a chart of Catalan dialogue: even though some of the words are similar to Spanish (Hola means hello in both), other words are different (They use Adeu when saying goodbye).

Adam 3

kaminskiadam1 — 2015-03-16 13:44:04 UTC

Adam

kaminskiadam1 — 2015-03-16 13:44:05 UTC

9.5 million speak it. The author might not include much obvious cultural context because the audience is so small and probably not very culturally diverse.

Observation #2 ~

2015-03-16 13:45:03 UTC

Maybe it's just me but I kind of think the Catalan alphabet looks and sounds similar to Portuguese. But it says it was formed after the colonization of the Romans who spoke latin, but they were surrounded by the Spanish, so I'm confused how the adopted Portuguese like language.

Axel

2015-03-16 13:45:56 UTC

Spanish and Catalan are quite similar, eg "Hey how are you?" is "¿Hola como estás?" in Spanish and "Hola com estás?" n Catalan.

Daniela 2

2015-03-16 13:46:23 UTC

I also learned that Catalan is very related

Something I learned (Emily Stone

2015-03-16 13:48:49 UTC

I learned that half of the population of Catalan claims that Spanish is their "mother language".

Brian Aphram 2

2015-03-16 13:49:06 UTC

Some Catalan phrases are derived from France, such as "adeu" (goodbye)

Justin

2015-03-16 13:49:35 UTC

Catalan is spoken by 9.5 billion people.

Chris

2015-03-16 13:51:43 UTC

The Catalan flag was created by Carles dipping his fingers in Guifres dying body and running them across his nephews golden sheild.

#3 ~ Erika

2015-03-16 13:54:18 UTC

I think it's cool how it was repressed and punishable if you speak it but now it's co-official to speak along with Spanish.

Brian Aphram 3

2015-03-16 13:56:56 UTC

The revival of Catalan was called the

Brian Aphram 3

2015-03-16 21:40:16 UTC

The revival of Catalan was known as the "reaixençia", or renaissance.

# 1 Bryan Calderon

2015-03-17 09:22:04 UTC

Catalan is the only vehicular language taught In state schools.

#2 Bryan Calderon

2015-03-17 09:24:35 UTC

It is the official language of Andorra, Catalonia , Valencia, and the Balearic Islands . It is also spoken in parts of Aragon and Murcia, Pyrénées-Orientales in southern France, and in the Sardinian city of Alghero

# 3 Bryan Calderon

2015-03-17 09:39:05 UTC

the alphabet in Catalan is very similar to that of English and and a bit to Spanish as well. The only difference is that they add the letter "ce trencada" in it. This is a second version of the letter C.

Effect on the Book Bryan Calderon

2015-03-17 09:43:02 UTC

i find that culture and current events of the books tend to have a large impact on them. I feel that it might have the same influence here in which we might have to do research as we did here to explain certain events happening in the story . We of course don't know the story yet so we don't know what events connect but as we do we will start to see connection to its origin with the Mormons or even its separation with Spain.

Justin Da

2015-03-17 11:56:17 UTC

Something I found interesting about the actual Catalan people is that they made a human chain of about 1.6 million people to get independence from Spain

Daniela

2015-03-17 12:25:00 UTC

i found interesting that Catalan was so close to The language of Spanish