The Catalan language has revived and Barcelona has become one of the most fashionable cities in Europe.

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He has even told the conservatives in Catalonia to vote against Mr Pujol's new law promoting the Catalan language.

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Quim Monzo is the best-selling author in the Catalan language.

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The nationalist Convergence and Union coalition wants a burqa ban and to make future immigrants take Catalan-language tests.

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Some local writers have issued a manifesto in Catalan saying that neither language should have supremacy.

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Instead, she believes his grammar and sentence construction indicate that Catalan was his native language, and he would have been from what was then the Kingdom of Aragon in northeastern Spain.

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Catalan is different from Spanish language, not better or worse, just different.

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"Catalan could become an official language of the European Union, " he says.

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Catalonia has its own flag and language -- Catalan -- and various analysts say the economic crisis has brought long-simmering nationalist sentiment to the forefront.

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