Areas of linguistic predominance Valencian Community
the traditionally valencian-speaking territories marked in green
not of valencian territory historically valencian-speaking, 10% of population, 500,000, living in traditionally spanish-speaking inner regions. large numbers of foreign immigrants since 2000 become spanish speakers. these regions include areas aragonese rather catalan settlers introduced castilian-aragonese language in historic kingdom of valencia, several castilian municipalities annexed valencian community in 19th century. valencian traditionally spoken in more densely populated coastal areas catalan settlers introduced language in middle ages. these areas delimited administrative purposes generalitat, established different areas of linguistic predominance (predomini lingüístic). valencian area of linguistic predominance suffers in many cases process of linguistic substitution, in cities of valencia , alicante, populations of 1 million spanish has become predominant in spite of valencian being traditional language. outside these areas , traditional spanish-speaking areas in west valencian predominates or on equal footing.
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