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by elnatro 1616 days ago
No, I never said that Catalan is a dialect, it is indeed a language.

But Catalan nationalists are even trying to remove all Spanish from the education [1][2] even by disobeying court sentences.

If you compare the situation between Catalan and Galicia. You can see it clearly. Galician is not used by most people nor politicians as a political tool. Catalan is sadly being used as such.

[1] https://www.elperiodico.com/es/sociedad/20211123/sentencia-2...

[2] https://www.europapress.es/nacional/noticia-parlament-catala...

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You literally said that Andalusian and others "are dialects because they have not been politicized like Catalan or Basque", suggesting that what makes a language a language instead of a dialect it's its political weight.

Certainly, Catalan is used as a political tool, but it's a little hypocritical to think that Spanish is not. We all know how political questions should be solved in a democracy.

I explained myself poorly, English is not my first language. Andalusian is a set of dialects were Basque, Catalan and Galician are languages.

Having said that, Catalan and Basque have been used as a political tool for decades, much less the Galician, and not the Andalusian dialects of Spanish.

Hope this comment clarifies what I’m trying to say.