Between 7 million and 11 million.-we could say that of the 11 million people who live in the catalan-speaking regions, about 10 million use it at least passively, more than 7 million know how to speak it, and at least 5 million use it as their main language of communication. depending on the figure used, catalan ranks differently among the european languages. in the worst-case scenario, catalan has more speakers than danish, slovak, slovenian, estonian, finnish, latvian, lithuanian and norwegian. according to the most optimistic calculation, it is demographically comparable to greek, portuguese and swedish. in any event, catalan is not an endangered language like breton in france or frisian in the netherlands; it has a considerable number of speakers who use it every day in all spheres of society.
