Talk:Balearic Islands
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i've been curious as to whether or not the balearic islands have their own dialect or dialects of spanish, but i haven't even been able to find any internet articles on this subject.Gringo300 18:07, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Can someone explain me why does the Spanish government use Illes Balears (Catalan name) instead of Islas Baleares when it does not use other official names of autonomous communities in languages different from Spanish (like Catalunya or Euskadi)? User:Marco Neves
- But it does use Catalunya (and Girona, Lleida, etc). Catalunya and Illes Balears are the official names and their respective Autonomous Governments have exclusive rights to set official place names on their territories as well, and the official place names are always the Catalan ones (except in Val d'Aran where the only official names are the Aranese ones).
- Things are a bit more complicated for Euskadi and Valencia: were a place has different forms for Spanish vs Basque or Catalan, both forms are considered official. E.g. Vitoria/Gasteiz or Jijona/Xixona.
- Don't know for sure about other Communities were the same question might aply:
- Galicia (Spanish vs Galician)
- Asturias (Spanish vs Asturian)
- part of Navarre (Spanish vs Basque)
- parts of Aragon (Spanish vs Aragonese or Catalan)
- Hi! Thanks for the remarks. I mostly agree with you. However, please note this facts. The official Spanish version of the Autonomy Statute of Catalonia is "Estatuto de Autonomia de Cataluņa" and not "Catalunya". In Balears case, it is "Estatuto de Autonomia de las Illes Balears" and not "Islas Baleares". You can see this in any official compilation of Spanish autonomy statutes. In fact, Spanish government, in offical documents in Spanish, uses the form "Cataluņa" and, for Balears, "Illes Balears". Why this inconsistency?
- I know that, in Catalonia, the Catalan names are the only one official and so I've included an explanation of that fact in Barcelona article. But Spanish Government uses the Spanish translations (which makes some sense, since the Spanish government also uses Spanish versions of foreign names, like Londres, Oporto, etc.). My question is this: why Illes Balears in Spanish? Thanks! User:Marco Neves
Ballistics
I read, when I was a kid, that the term ballistics is derived from the ancient pronounciation of the balearic isles -- that the warriors from there were known for the ability to use a sling as a weapon. But I won't add this either entry until I can document it elsewhere.
- According to ballistics, the term seems to be from Greek ballein, "to throw." - Montréalais 06:00, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)
"PP" link
I just changed the link "PP", that addressed to "Partit_Popular" to "Partido_Popular". That article already exists, and it has no sense to have different names for that party because of its central organization
Why Catalan-Aragonese invasion
I think this is not correct, the Islands were invaded by the crown of aragon. Not by a unexisting catalan state. If anyone is kind enough to correct this to aragonese invasion, it will be much apreciated.