Editing Catalan language (section)

=== France: 19th to 20th century ===
After the French colony of [[French Algeria|Algeria]] was established in 1830, many Catalan-speaking settlers moved there. People from the Spanish [[province of Alicante]] settled around [[Oran]], while those from [[Northern Catalonia|French Catalonia]] and [[Menorca]] migrated to [[Algiers]].

By 1911, there were around 100,000 speakers of ''[[Patuet]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |last=Àngela-Rosa Menages, Joan-Lluís Monjo |title=El patuet valencià, un reflex lingüístic de la societat algeriana colonial (1830–1962) |url=https://www.upf.edu/diversia/_pdf/El_patuet_valencia.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921054920/http://www.upf.edu/diversia/_pdf/El_patuet_valencia.pdf |archive-date=21 September 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref>  as their speech was called.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Plataforma per la llengua |title=The Catalan Language |url=https://www.plataforma-llengua.cat/media/upload/pdf/the-catalan-language-en_294_11_2446.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220307203232/https://www.plataforma-llengua.cat/media/upload/pdf/the-catalan-language-en_294_11_2446.pdf |archive-date=7 March 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> After the Algerian declaration of independence in 1962, almost all the ''[[Pied-Noir]]'' Catalan speakers fled to Northern Catalonia<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Marfany |first1=Marta |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dWGWMzJuXN8C |title=Els menorquins d'Algèria |last2=Simó |first2=Marta Marfany |date=2002 |publisher=L'Abadia de Montserrat |isbn=978-84-8415-366-5 |language=ca |access-date=14 December 2022 |archive-date=15 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415045602/https://books.google.com/books?id=dWGWMzJuXN8C |url-status=live}}</ref> or Alicante.{{sfn|Marfany|2002}}

The French government only recognizes French as an official language. Nevertheless, on 10 December 2007, the then [[General Council of the Pyrénées-Orientales]] officially recognized Catalan as one of the départment's languages<ref name="Charte en faveur du Catalan">{{cite web |url=http://www.cg66.fr/202-charte-en-faveur-du-catalan.htm |title=''Charte en faveur du Catalan'' |access-date=18 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121222154353/http://www.cg66.fr/202-charte-en-faveur-du-catalan.htm |archive-date=22 December 2012 |url-status=dead}} {{cite web |url=http://www.cg66.fr/199-la-catalanitat-a-catalunya-nord.htm |title=''La catalanitat a la Catalunya Nord'' |access-date=13 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110309142734/http://www.cg66.fr/199-la-catalanitat-a-catalunya-nord.htm |archive-date=9 March 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and seeks to further promote it in public life and education.