Balearic Catalan

Balearic (Catalan: balear) is the collective name for the dialects of Catalan spoken in the Balearic Islands: mallorquí in Mallorca, eivissenc in Ibiza and menorquí in Menorca.

Balearic
Majorcan, Minorcan, Ibizan
mallorquí, menorquí, eivissenc
Catalan-language sign in Artà.
Native toSpain
RegionBalearic Islands
Speakers of any Catalan
dialect in the islands		746,792 (2001)
Indo-European
Early forms
Proto-Indo-European
  • Proto-Italic
    • Old Latin
      • Vulgar Latin
        • Proto-Romance
          • Old Occitan
            • Old Catalan
Dialects
Writing system
Catalan alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
IETFca-u-sd-esib
The Catalan- speaking regions with the Balearic islands in red (■)

At the 2011 census, 861,232 respondents in the Balearic Islands claimed to be able to understand either Balearic or mainland Catalan, compared to 111,912 respondents who could not; proportions were similar on each of the islands.

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