Catalan people

As Catalans usually the inhabitants of the Spanish region of Catalonia and the French Pyrenees foothills to Perpignan are called. The Spanish and the French Catalans have a common language. In the German context, the term was occasionally used to denote a Catalan ethnicity. This would include all of the speakers of Catalan in the Països Catalans. Such a view is, however, shared neither by science nor by the majority of Catalan nationalists. In the latter discourse rather takes the concept of the nation a central position, an association of individuals of a particular ethnic group does not matter.