The passing of the years marks that A territory can gradually evolve. Cultures, traditions, customs, ways of speaking and communicating … each and every one of the things is over adapting to recent times and you can get to give cases in which, things that have existed throughout life, have ended missing forever.
Imperialism and conquests have played a key role in this regard, since Several cities in which people from a specific place have resided, they have ended up rotating For others to those who live there today. The agreements between countries for which a territory, for example of Spain, has ended up being part of another country have also been important. One of these examples is the one that has shown In his social networks a Valencian influencer.
“The social use of Catalan is reduced to 10% of the population”
It’s about Fran Tudelaalso known as @Cabrafrafotudaa communicator who is dedicated to publishing videos in his various profiles. As for its content, humor prevails with comic clips on different customs, the dissemination ofCOOFICIAL LANGUAGES like Valencian or Catalan, or the daily stories and anecdotes of their day to day.
One of his most prominent videos has been in which he has commented on the situation of the presence of the Catalans in northern Catalonia. Fran has traveled to the French territory, where he explained that “Here is Catalan all his life historically, and until recently it was of habitual use”. However, its use has been very small and declares that only speak it “10% of the population”.
We are talking about Perpignana city located in the southern Francejust northwest of the Iberian Peninsula and in the Occitania region. This territory It always belonged to Spain, but in 1659 it became part of our neighboring country. All this was done through The Treaty of the Pyrenees, which ended the conflict between Spain and France. As of that date, the Rosellón, Perpiñán and other territories from Catalonia passed to guardianship of the French territory. At present, it is considered part of the Northern Catalonia Despite the French officer.
“Catalanness can be breathed”
After the introduction of the video, this humorist begins to walk through the streets of the city formulating all the inhabitants the following question: “Do you speak Catalan?”. However, The most frequent response has not beenthat none of them neither understood nor knew how to communicate in this language.
Frae continues to walk through Perpiñán and VE obvious brands that it still continues to be a region in whichThe Catalan speaks. “There are some stores that put here that there is also Catalan, and the posters are all translated into French and Catalan”demonstrates. Basically, “Catalanity can breathe from certain places”and this can be reflected in a library or in a cafeteria. Therefore, it is very surprising that reality knows that “When you try to talk to people, nobody responds in Catalan”.
“Social life does not promise to speak in Catalan”
What seemed impossible in the end ended up becoming come true. This Valencian ends up finding some people who claim to know how to speak in Catalan. Some explain that they have been talking since they were very small and that others learned it in schools. There are even those who have admonished this language because their parents communicated that way.
Of course, all these testimonies reveal that “Social life does not encourage Catalan to speak” And that too “We are losing it little by little”. In fact, they explain that it is very unusual to identify it in the streets. Fran articulates the following: “Is Catalan to hear in the street. When all are asked if they will continue trying to communicate through this language or if they will claim it, the answers are clear: “Claim, maybe not, but I will keep talking to him”; “I think it is important to speak Catalan”; “Yes, me too”.