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Catalan vs Catalanophobia - What's the difference?

catalan | catalanophobia |

As nouns the difference between catalan and catalanophobia

is that catalan is person from or inhabitant of Catalonia while Catalanophobia is dislike or hatred of the Catalan people, culture or language.

As a proper noun Catalan

is the language of Catalonia, an autonomous region in the northeast of Spain. Various dialects are also spoken in the Valencian autonomous region where the language is officially named valencià, the Balearic Islands, Andorra, Roussillon in France and the Sardinian city of Alghero. ISO 639-3 recognizes Valencian as an alternate name for this language.

As an adjective Catalan

is of or pertaining to Catalonia.

catalan

Noun

(en noun)
  • Person from or inhabitant of Catalonia.
  • Synonyms

    * Catalonian

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The language of Catalonia, an autonomous region in the northeast of Spain. Various dialects are also spoken in the Valencian autonomous region where the language is officially named , the Balearic Islands, Andorra, (Roussillon) in France and the Sardinian city of Alghero. ISO 639-3 recognizes Valencian as an alternate name for this language.
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to Catalonia.
  • Synonyms

    * Catalonian

    Derived terms

    * Catalan forge * Catalan furnace

    See also

    * (ca) * Language list

    catalanophobia

    English

    Alternative forms

    * catalanophobia

    Noun

    (-)
  • (rare) Dislike or hatred of the Catalan people, culture or language.
  • * 1979 , European studies review , vol. 9, Macmillan, pg. 15:
  • Villaverde's refusal to concede a concierto económico to the region, backed by a general diatribe of catalanophobia in the Madrid press, brought on a taxpayers' strike in Barcelona and throughout Catalonia, coupled with the closure of shops.
  • * 1990 , Élites and Power in Twentieth-Century Spain: Essays in Honor of Sir Raymond Carr , Eds. Frances Lannon and Paul Preston, Clarendon Press, ISBN 9780198228806, pg. 52:
  • Against a general diatribe of catalanophobia in the Madrid press, the middle classes of the Principality, represented in their guilds (gremios''), retaliated by declaring a taxpayers' strike and the closure of all shops, a movement which became known as the ''tancament de caixes .
  • * 2000 , Joseph Harrison, "Tackling national decadence: economic regeneration in Spain after the colonial débâcle," Spain's 1898 Crisis: Regenerationism, Modernism, Post-Colonialism , Eds. Joseph Harrison and Alan Hoyle, Manchester University Press, ISBN 9780719058622, pg. 61:
  • Yet in a mood of catalanophobia , stirred up by sections of the Madrid press against separatist tendencies in the Principality, Catalan proposals for the economic regeneration of Spain were rejected as special pleading.

    Synonyms

    * anti-Catalanism