Editing Pluricentric language (section)

=== Catalan ===
{{Main|Catalan dialects}}

In the modern era, Catalan is a pluricentric language with differences primarily in pronunciation and vocabulary. This language is internationally known as [[Catalan language|Catalan]], as in [[Ethnologue]]. This is also the most commonly used name in [[Catalonia]], but also in [[Andorra]] and the [[Balearic Islands]], probably due to the prestige of the Central Catalan dialect spoken in and around [[Barcelona]]. However, in the [[Valencian Community]], the official name of this language is [[Valencian language|Valencian]]. One reason for this is political (see Serbo-Croatian for a similar situation), but this variant does have its own literary tradition that dates back to the [[Reconquista]].

Although mutually intelligible with other varieties of Catalan, Valencian has lexical peculiarities and its own spelling rules, which are set out by the [[Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua]] since 1998, as do other regions within the Catalan area, e.g. Aragon.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Esteve Valls Alecha |author2=Martijn Wieling |date=2024 |title=Towards a social dialectometry: the analysis of internal border effects |journal=Estudos de Lingüística Galega |volume=16 |pages=1–27 |doi=10.15304/elg.16.9725 |url=https://www.academia.edu/126238713|doi-access=free }}</ref> However, this institution recognizes that Catalan and Valencian are varieties of the same language. For their part, there are specific varieties in the two major Balearic islands, Mallorcan ({{langx|ca|mallorquí}}) in [[Mallorca]], Menorcan (''menorquí'') in [[Menorca]], Ibizan (''eivissenc'') in [[Ibiza]].