Talk:Comarques of Catalonia

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Does anyone have a clue why the list refers to "Era Val d'Aran" rather than just "Val d'Aran"? Makes no sense to me. I'm probably going to change this if no one can explain. -- Jmabel 05:28, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Era is the "la" article in aranese. As you can see in Viquipèdia, in Catalan (and seems that in Occitan too) there is a strong tendency to say the local names with an article. Is not very clear if the article must be part of the official name (and in the Catalan version, sometimes solve this doubt redirecting from one of the versions to the other), but what is sure is that is incorrect to write the name in the middle of a sentence, alone without the article Llull 08:10, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. My knowledge of Aranès is about zero; for an North American, I imagine I'm pretty exceptional just to be able to read Catalan. Usually in English usage we don't use those articles, and yes I know how it grates on a Romance Language ear (we don't even call the capital of Cuba "La Habana", just "Havana"). I'll drop the "era" from this article (but maybe we should be getting this grammatical usage stuff into the articles on the individual comarques). -- Jmabel 17:38, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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The term comarca has entered the English language as meaning an administrative subdivision or traditional region in several Iberian and Latin American countries (see wikt:comarca). In line with the norms of the English language, its plural is formed by simply adding an "s", regardless of how it is formed in other languages. Since this is the English Wikipedia, we should therefore refer to standard English "comarcas", rather than vary the plural according to the grammar of the local language of where the comarcas happen to be located. I therefore propose renaming this page to "Comarcas of Catalonia". Cheers. Rwxrwxrwx (talk) 14:44, 30 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]