Balearic Catalan
| Balearic | |
|---|---|
| Majorcan, Minorcan, Ibizan | |
| balear mallorquí, menorquí, eivissenc | |
| Native to | Spain |
| Region | Balearic Islands |
| Speakers of any Catalan dialect in the islands | 746,792 (2001) |
Early forms | |
| Dialects | |
| Catalan alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| IETF | ca-u-sd-esib |
The Catalan-speaking territories with the Balearic Islands in red (■) | |
| Catalan / Valencian cultural domain |
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Balearic (Catalan: balear [bəleˈa]) is the group of dialects of Catalan spoken in the Balearic Islands: mallorquí in Mallorca, eivissenc in Ibiza and menorquí in Menorca.
At the 2011 census, 861,232 respondents in the Balearic Islands claimed to be able to understand either Balearic or mainland Catalan, compared to 111,912 respondents who could not; proportions were similar on each of the islands.