| Northern Catalan | |
| Familycolor: | Indo-European |
| Also Known As: | Roussillonese |
| Nativename: | Catalan; Valencian: català septentrional Catalan; Valencian: rossellonès |
| States: | France |
| Region: | Northern Catalonia |
| Ethnicity: | Catalans |
| Fam2: | Italic |
| Fam3: | Latino-Faliscan |
| Fam4: | Romance |
| Fam5: | Italo-Western |
| Fam6: | Western Romance |
| Fam7: | Gallo-Romance |
| Fam8: | Occitano-Romance |
| Fam9: | Catalan |
| Ancestor: | Proto-Indo-European |
| Ancestor2: | Proto-Italic |
| Ancestor3: | Old Latin |
| Ancestor4: | Vulgar Latin |
| Ancestor5: | Proto-Romance |
| Ancestor6: | Old Occitan |
| Ancestor7: | Old Catalan |
| Script: | Catalan alphabet |
| Isoexception: | dialect |
| Ietf: | ca-FR |
| Imagealt: | A street sign with the words Catalan; Valencian: CAMI DE FRANÇA. |
| Map: | Extensió del català als Pirineus Orientals.svg |
| Mapalt: | A map of the French department of Oriental Pyrenees with most of the areas highlighted but for the middle north. |
pronounced as /notice/
Northern Catalan (Catalan; Valencian: català septentrional), also known as Rossellonese (rossellonès), is a Catalan dialect mostly spoken in Northern Catalonia (roughly corresponding with the region of Roussillon), but also extending in the northeast part of Southern Catalonia in a transition zone with Central Catalan.[1] [2] All speakers of Catalan from North Catalonia are at least natively bilingual with French.[3]
Phonetic features of Northern Catalan include:
Some subdialects keep the singular masculine definite article lo, as in North-Western Catalan and many varieties of Occitan.
Northern Catalan has a large body of words imported from French and Occitan.[4] It also features some grammatical forms and structures that are typical of Occitan, such as the use of a lone post-verbal pas, rather than a lone preverbal no to express basic negation (Northern Catalan canti pas vs. Central Catalan no canto, 'I don't sing' or 'I'm not singing'); pas is also used in some other Catalan dialects for emphasis but always with no before the verb (Central Catalan no canto pas, 'I do not sing' or 'I am not singing').