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    <title><![CDATA[Ara in English - linguistic uses]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[Catalan is already the habitual language of less than a third of the population]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/f303f266-5f48-4456-ba89-43ca4af10fbd_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>Only a third of Catalans have Catalan as their habitual language. This is one of the new developments that emerge from the Survey of Language Uses of the Population (EULP) that the Government publishes every five years. If in 2018 36.1% of the population had Catalan as their habitual language, now it is 32.6%, four points lower and fourteen points lower than twenty years ago. The Spanish language also fell by two points (46.5%), but bilingualism grew (from 7.4% to 9.4%) and so did the use of other languages (from 3% to 5.6%). However, there are more Catalan speakers (117,000 more, who use it with other languages) and more people who know it (267,600 more). The explanation for the percentage drop is the high volume of migration, which dilutes the effect of those who join the language: the growth of speakers is lower than the population growth.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Serra]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:25:40 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[An image of Enric Granados street in Barcelona.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Catalan speakers are increasing, because there are more people who know and speak it, but the effect is diluted by the wave of newcomers]]></subtitle>
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