Editing Catalan language (section)

== Standards ==
{{Main|Institut d'Estudis Catalans|Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua}}
[[File:Casa de Convalescència - IEC.JPG|thumb|left|Casa de Convalescència, Headquarters of the ''Institut d'Estudis Catalans'' (IEC)]]

{| class="wikitable" style="float:right; margin-left: 1em;"
|+ Written varieties
! Catalan&nbsp;(IEC)
! Valencian&nbsp;(AVL)
! gloss
|-
| {{lang|ca|anglès}}
| {{lang|ca-valencia|anglés}}
| English
|-
| {{lang|ca|conèixer}}
| {{lang|ca-valencia|conéixer}}
| to know
|-
| {{lang|ca|treure}}
| {{lang|ca-valencia|traure}}
| take out
|-
| {{lang|ca|néixer}}
| {{lang|ca-valencia|nàixer}}
| to&nbsp;be&nbsp;born
|-
| {{lang|ca|càntir}}
| {{lang|ca-valencia|cànter}}
| pitcher
|-
| {{lang|ca|rodó}}
| {{lang|ca-valencia|redó}}
| round
|-
| {{lang|ca|meva}}
| {{lang|ca-valencia|meua}}
| my, mine
|-
| {{lang|ca|ametlla}}
| {{lang|ca-valencia|ametla}}
| almond
|-
| {{lang|ca|estrella}}
| {{lang|ca-valencia|estrela}}
| star
|-
| {{lang|ca|cop}}
| {{lang|ca-valencia|colp}}
| hit
|-
| {{lang|ca|llagosta}}
| {{lang|ca-valencia|llangosta}}
| lobster
|-
| {{lang|ca|homes}}
| {{lang|ca-valencia|hòmens}}
| men
|-
| {{lang|ca|servei}}
| {{lang|ca-valencia|servici}}
| service
|}

Standard Catalan, virtually accepted by all speakers,{{sfn|Wheeler|2003|p=207}} is mostly based on Eastern Catalan,{{sfn|Feldhausen|2010|p=5}}{{sfn|Wheeler|2003|p=170}} which is the most widely used dialect. Nevertheless, the standards of the Valencian Community and the Balearics admit alternative forms, mostly traditional ones, which are not current in eastern Catalonia.{{sfn|Wheeler|2003|p=170}}

The most notable difference between both standards is some tonic {{angbr|e}} accentuation, for instance: {{lang|ca|francès, anglès}} (IEC) – {{lang|ca-valencia|francés, anglés}} (AVL). Nevertheless, AVL's standard keeps the grave accent {{angbr|è}}, while pronouncing it as {{IPA|/e/}} rather than {{IPA|/ɛ/}}, in some words such as: {{lang|ca-valencia|què}} ('what'), or {{lang|ca-valencia|València}}. Other divergences include the use of {{angbr|tl}} (AVL) in some words instead of {{angbr|tll}} like in {{lang|ca-valencia|ametla}}/{{lang|ca|ametlla}} ('almond'), {{lang|ca-valencia|espatla}}/{{lang|ca|espatlla}} ('back'), the use of elided demonstratives ({{lang|ca|este}} 'this', {{lang|ca|eixe}} 'that') in the same level as reinforced ones ({{lang|ca|aquest, aqueix}}) or the use of many verbal forms common in Valencian, and some of these common in the rest of Western Catalan too, such as subjunctive mood or inchoative conjugation in {{lang|ca|-ix-}} at the same level as {{lang|ca|-eix-}} or the priority use of {{lang|ca|-e}} morpheme in 1st person singular in present indicative ({{lang|ca|-ar}} verbs): {{lang|ca|jo compre}} instead of {{lang|ca|jo compro}} ('I buy').

In the Balearic Islands, IEC's standard is used but adapted for the Balearic dialect by the [[University of the Balearic Islands]]'s philological section. In this way, for instance, IEC says it is correct writing {{lang|ca|cantam}} as much as {{lang|ca|cantem}} ('we sing'), but the university says that the priority form in the Balearic Islands must be {{lang|ca|cantam}} in all fields. Another feature of the Balearic standard is the non-ending in the 1st person singular present indicative: {{lang|ca|jo compr}} ('I buy'), {{lang|ca|jo tem}} ('I fear'), {{lang|ca|jo dorm}} ('I sleep').

In Alghero, the IEC has adapted its standard to the [[Algherese dialect|Algherese]] dialect. In this standard one can find, among other features: the definite article {{lang|ca|lo}} instead of {{lang|ca|el}}, special possessive pronouns and determinants {{lang|ca|la mia}} ('mine'), {{lang|ca|lo sou/la sua}} ('his/her'), {{lang|ca|lo tou/la tua}} ('yours'), and so on, the use of {{lang|ca|-v-}} {{IPA|/v/}} in the imperfect tense in all conjugations: {{lang|ca|cantava}}, {{lang|ca|creixiva}}, {{lang|ca|llegiva}}; the use of many archaic words, usual words in Algherese: {{lang|ca|manco}} instead of {{lang|ca|menys}} ('less'), {{lang|ca|calqui u}} instead of {{lang|ca|algú}} ('someone'), {{lang|ca|qual/quala}} instead of {{lang|ca|quin/quina}} ('which'), and so on; and the adaptation of [[weak pronouns in Catalan|weak pronouns]]. In 1999, Catalan ([[Algherese dialect]]) was among the twelve minority languages officially recognized as Italy's "[[Languages of Italy#Historical linguistic minorities|historical linguistic minorities]]" by the Italian State under Law No. 482/1999.<ref>Law No. 482 of 15 December 1999. "Rules on the protection of historical linguistic minorities". Article 2. Gazzetta Ufficiale n. 297. 20 December 1999</ref>

In 2011,<ref>Decreto 89/2011, de 5 de abril, del Gobierno de Aragón, por el que se aprueban los
Estatutos de la Academia Aragonesa del Catalán. [http://www.boa.aragon.es/cgi-bin/EBOA/BRSCGI?CMD=VEROBJ&MLKOB=592553980606 BOA núm. 77, de 18 de abril de 2011] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180412145503/http://www.boa.aragon.es/cgi-bin/EBOA/BRSCGI?CMD=VEROBJ&MLKOB=592553980606 |date=12 April 2018 }}</ref> the [[Aragon]]ese government passed a decree approving the statutes of a new language regulator of Catalan in [[La Franja]] (the so-called Catalan-speaking areas of Aragon) as originally provided for by Law 10/2009.<ref>Ley 10/2009, de 22 de diciembre, de uso, protección y promoción de las lenguas propias de Aragón [https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-2010-1711 BOE núm. 30, de 4 de febrero de 2010.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180412145822/https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-2010-1711 |date=12 April 2018 }}</ref> The new entity, designated as {{lang|ca|[[Institut Aragonès del Català]]}}, shall allow a facultative education in Catalan and a standardization of the Catalan language in [[La Franja]].