Catalan is a language, not a dialect. It is one of the Romance languages which also include French, Spanish (Castellano), Portuguese, Galician (Gallego), Italian, Romanian, Occitan and loads more. Just to a bit of research on the internet and you'll easily find your answers without having to ask silly questions like this.

I m a catalan. Catalan is one of the romance languages spoken in Europe with its own entity, culture, literature, etc. It is spoken naturally in Catalunya itself, Comunity of Valencia, Balearic Islands, Andorra (where it is the only official language), Departament de Pyrineees Orientales (which France stole us with the help of Castillian kings) and in a small town in Sardegna Island (Italy). In Algeria there was some time ago a numerous catalan comunity of Balearic origin which settled there because of fishing trade (cent xix-xx), it has nothing to do with colonization but after you expulsed french, every european seemed the same. Just for an info: the algerian film maker Jean Paul Lledó is of catalan origin, being Lledó a native catalan family name. I know because maybe he is "family" to me.

Catalan is a different language than Spanish. It 's a language, not a dialect!

I'm not from Spain but i think Catalan is spoken only in some regions and not everyone in Spain speaks Catalan whereas everyone can speak Spanish there. Catalan is a kind of dialect i guess.

Catalan is a regional language spoken primarily in the Spanish Autonomous Communities of Cataluña and Valencia. Cataluña is known in English as Catalonia and in Catalan as Catalunya. It is also spoken in the Balearic Islands, in small parts of southern France, and small parts of southern Italy. It is a Romance language, just as Spanish is. Others may feel free to disagree on this point, but having studied some Catalan, I would say that it is right in the middle of Spanish, French, and Italian. Some examples of the differences, Spanish followed by Catalan, followed by English: Chocolate, Xocolate, Chocolate Calle, Carrer, Street Poco, Poc, Little Soy, Soc, I am As you can see, the languages are quite similar, but they are indeed distinct languages.