People in Mallorca speak Spanish (also referred to as 'Castilian' or 'Castellano', a variety of the Spanish language spoken in central Spain) and Mallorquí, a language with the same root as Catalán which can change slightly depending on the location.
Is Palma de Mallorca Catalan?
The Balearic Islands are an autonomous region of Spain, consisting of the islands of Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera. The two official languages are Catalan and Spanish and in Mallorca, a local dialect of Catalan, the Mallorquín (mallorquí) is spoken.
What do they speak on Mallorca?
Can a Spanish speaker understand Catalan?
While knowing Spanish may provide some advantages in understanding written Catalan or recognizing certain words, a Spanish speaker would typically struggle to fully comprehend a conversation in Catalan without prior exposure or specific language learning.
Is Catalan closer to Italian or Spanish?
According to Ethnologue, the lexical similarity between Catalan and other Romance languages is: 87% with Italian; 85% with Portuguese and Spanish; 76% with Ladin and Romansh; 75% with Sardinian; and 73% with Romanian.
Is Catalan closer to French or Spanish?
Catalan is most closely related to the Occitan language of southern France and to Spanish, but it is clearly distinct from both.