Thread: [Other] The languages of Spain, Portugal and Andorra
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Old May 22, 2013, 05:57 AM
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kaixokaixo, do some research on the "Spanish Civil War" 1936-1939. Part of the war was fought to make
Catalan a separate country and language. Obviously they lost and Catalan had to stay with Spain. The
rest of the minority languages suffered under the dictator Franco also.
They're campaigning for a referendum on independence again, I think - they've already got a great deal of autonomy via the Generalitat (Regional Parliament). They upset the regional immigrants monumentally a couple of years ago by banning totally La Corrida in all Cataluña!

Monumentally - get it?
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