Linguistic identity in Catalonia 2023

In a survey carried out in 2023, over 50 percent of respondents spoke only Spanish at home when growing up, while 31.1 percent of the respondents percent spoke Catalan. Moreover, nearly 38 percent considered Catalan to be their own language

Use and perception of languages in Catalonia in 2023

Characteristic	Catalan	Spanish	Both: Catalan and Spanish	Aranese**	Arabic	Romani	Other	Don't know
Which language do you consider your own?	37.9%	47.2%	2.42%	0.06%	2.37%	0.98%	6.34%	2.75%
Which language did you speak at home as a child?	31.1%	52.6%	0.58%	0.06%	3.37%	1.43%	9.1%	1.66%

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Release date

January 2024

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Region

Spain

Survey time period

September 29 to November 30, 2023

Number of respondents

2,162 respondents

Method of interview

Computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI)

Supplementary notes

** Aranese is a dialect of Occitan with a few thousand speakers, spoken in the Vall d'Aran in Catalonia, on the border with France. It is the third official language of Catalonia.

Total share does not come to 100 due to the exclusion of respondents who did not answer the question.

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