Political Questions About The Balearic Dialects
Some in the Balearic Islands, such as the Partido Popular and his governing José Ramón Bauzà, argue that the dialects of Baleric Islands are actually separate languages and not dialects of the Catalan. Bauzà has even campaigned against having centralized or standardized standards of Catalan in public education.
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