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Similar but on the regional level in Spain: valenciano (Valencia region) and catalan (Catalonia) are nearly identical dialects, but due to local pride reasons,

• enriquto 6y ago
  This does not seem to be accurate, in my experience. I've never heard an actual speaker of the language (or of either language, if you want), claiming that they are two separate languages. If anything, there is a tension regarding certain choices in the standardization of the orthography that are sometimes claimed to be Barcelona-centric and disregard the Valencian way of speaking. This may be true, I'm not a linguist to judge; but it might certainly justify having separate entries in e.g., websites, just like one often sees for american and european spanish and french, or for brazilian and european portuguese (which nobody claims are separate languages). Anyhow, the speech in the cities Tortosa and Castelló (on both sides of the purported boundary between the languages) is nearly identical, and very different from that of, say, Barcelona or Girona.