Editing Valencia (section)

===Languages===
[[File:Carrer de la Pau, sign of street in Valencia.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|right|[[:ca:Carrer de la Pau|Carrer de la Pau]] street sign]]
[[Valencian language|Valencian]] and [[Spanish language|Spanish]] are the [[official language]]s. Spanish is currently the predominant language in the city proper.<ref>{{cite web |title=Institut Valencià d'Estadística |access-date=9 March 2011 |url=http://www.ive.es/portal/page/portal/IVE_PEGV/CONTENTS/censos/censo2001definitivos/ini_val.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928084558/http://www.ive.es/portal/page/portal/IVE_PEGV/CONTENTS/censos/censo2001definitivos/ini_val.htm |archive-date=28 September 2011 |work=[[Generalitat Valenciana]] |url-status=dead}}</ref> Valencia proper and its surrounding metropolitan area are—along with the [[Alicante]] area—the traditionally Valencian-speaking territories of the Valencian Community where the Valencian language is less spoken and read.{{Sfn|Briz|2004|p=120}} According to a 2019 survey commissioned by the local government, 76% of the population use only Spanish in their daily life, 1.3% use only the Valencian language, while 17.6% of the population use both languages.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.levante-emv.com/valencia/2019/09/22/1--ciudadania-habla-habitualmente/1924371.html |website=[[Levante-EMV]] |first=Sandra |last=Urbina |title=Solo el 1,3 % de la ciudadanía habla habitualmente en valenciano |date=21 September 2019 |access-date=20 July 2020 |archive-date=20 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200720210234/https://www.levante-emv.com/valencia/2019/09/22/1--ciudadania-habla-habitualmente/1924371.html |url-status=live}}</ref> However, vis-à-vis the education system and according to the 1983 regional Law on the Use and Teaching of the Valencian Language, the municipality of Valencia is included within the territory of Valencian linguistic predominance.{{Sfn|Zabaltza|2017|p=69}} In 1993, the municipal government agreed to use exclusively Valencian for the plaques that serve as street signs.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.levante-emv.com/valencia/2016/01/29/nuevo-nomenclator-calles-valenciano/1371962.html |website=[[Levante-EMV]] |date=29 January 2016 |title=Nuevo nomenclátor de calles en valenciano |first=Hortensia |last=García |access-date=20 July 2020 |archive-date=20 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200720170526/https://www.levante-emv.com/valencia/2016/01/29/nuevo-nomenclator-calles-valenciano/1371962.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The variety of Valencian spoken in and around the city of Valencia is known as ''[[Central Valencian|apitxat]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|first=Kim|last=Schulte|page=96|year=2021|isbn=978-3-11-073965-7|title=Convergence and divergence in Ibero-Romance across contact situations and beyond|publisher=[[Walter de Gruyter]]|chapter=Structural convergence of two Ibero-Romance varieties. The case of colloquial Valencian as the outcome of contact between Catalan and Spanish|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6YWFEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA96}}</ref>