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Language Uses of the Population. First language, language of identification and habitual language

Population aged 15 and over according to first, identification and habitual language Catalonia. 2003
Thousands of people Percentage (%)
Most frequent languages First language Language of identification Habitual language First language Language of identification Habitual language
Catalan 2,036.2 2,491.9 2,584.9 36.2 44.3 46.0
Spanish 3,155.1 2,668.8 2,650.3 56.1 47.5 47.2
Catalan and Spanish 141.6 278.6 265.4 2.5 5.0 4.7
Aranese .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Catalan and another language (or languages) .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Spanish and another language (or languages) .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Catalan, Spanish and another language (or languages) .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
German .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
English .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Arabic .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Berber .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
French 39.4 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 0.7 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Galician 71.4 24.5 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 1.3 0.4 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Italian .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Portuguese .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Romanian .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Russian .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Urdu .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Chinese .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Other languages 74.6 54.3 35.1 1.3 1.0 0.6
Other language combination .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Not stated 24.0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 0.4 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Total 5,619.5 5,619.5 5,619.5 100.0 100.0 100.0
Source: Idescat and Direcció General de Política Lingüística. Survey on Language Uses of the Population.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: November 16, 2012. Revised series on June 3, 2025.

Methodological note

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