I can confirm this. I was born in the Valencian community and I was "forced" to study Valencian language at the school as part of a "normalisation" process so t

I can confirm this. I was born in the Valencian community and I was "forced" to study Valencian language at the school as part of a "normalisation" process so the language wasn't lost. When I was working as OSS consultant in Valencia one of the main issues was the translation of OpenOffice to Valencian language because for political reasons (mostly) the Catalan version couldn't be used. Let's say it is complicated. To cut the story short: some people in Valencia don't want to accept that Valencian is dialect of Catalan and they insist that it is a completely different language (total BS, but politics isn't about science, is it?). Yes, some words are different, like en_US is different from en_GB; but the whole absurd thing got to the point that they didn't want to use the locale for Catalan (ie. ca_ES@valencia or similar). Again, because political reasons they wanted to use va_ES but then OpenOffice couldn't integrate the translations in their source tree because va_ES is not an accepted locale in the IANA database. It was a total mess and it meant that they were always playing the catch up game translating again and again OpenOffice with each new version (I don't know how things are now in LibreOffice, but OpenOffice was a total nightmare). All together is a little bit sad to see how resources are wasted.