I feel your pain. Unless you are English speaking in the USA, Spanish speaking i...

ravenheart · on Jan 18, 2012

14 million?

Accordingo to this:

http://www.caib.es/conselleries/educacio/dgpoling/user/catal... (sorry, spanish) there are around 7 million Catalan speakers in all europe (including Spain, Andorra, France and Italy).

Your argument holds, still. Indeed, I'm pretty sure most content is available in Catalan here in Spain. I would be more worried about the italian ones, or even the french.

junto · on Jan 18, 2012

Wikipedia says 11.5 million, but the point is that even at this scale, they are still treated as an edge case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language

I'm sure there are other examples, but the general rule should be that language is a preference and not geographically forced.