La Franja
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La Franja de Ponent o La Franja d'Aragó (Catalan for Western Strip or Aragonese Strip) or La Francha de Lebán ( Aragonese for Eastern Strip), or simply La Franja, refers to four comarques in the east of the Autonomous Community of Aragon, which are in part linguistically Catalan, in contrast to the Castillian (and historically, Aragonese) speaking areas of western Aragon.
Catalan does not currently have an official status in this territory, as in other places in Spain. A law written by the Aragonese coalition government ((Spanish) Ley de lenguas de Aragón) was proposed in order to change this situation, as well as with Aragonese language in other regions in Aragon. However, this is still to be approved.
According to recent studies[1], La Franja is actually one of the territories with the highest oral usage of Catalan language, but with severe deficiences in writing competences because of its lack of officiality and support in education.
[edit] Comarques
- Ribagorza (Catalan: Baixa Ribagorça)
- La Litera / La Llitera
- Bajo Cinca / Baix Cinca
- Matarraña / Matarranya
[edit] External links
- The Western Strip Cultural Institution. Promotes Catalan culture.
- FACAO Federación de Asociaciones Culturales del Aragón Oriental. Analagously to blaverists in Valencia, they affirm that no Catalan is spoken in La Franja, but "Eastern Aragonese".
- Cinca river as frontier in History About the frontier changes between Aragon and Catalonia in la Franja.
- Information in Catalan Encyclopaedia
- Map of Language distribution in Aragon, by Francho Nagore
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| Catalan as the only official language | Andorra |  |
| Catalan as co-official language | Balearic Islands · Catalonia · L'Alguer · Valencia (as Valencian) | |
| Spoken without official status | Carxe · La Franja · Northern Catalonia | |
