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Catalan medical interpreters

Real-time Catalan medical interpretation for healthcare teams, on phones, tablets, and computers.

The U.S. Census Bureau’s ACS language tables don’t break out Catalan speakers, so speaker counts aren’t shown here. Opalite supports Catalan as part of its 150+ languages and dialects, including the ones hardest to staff human interpreters for.

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What to know when interpreting Catalan

Every language has grammar that an interpreter must handle correctly. These are the Catalan features that the fewest other languages in the world share, according to the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS).

Indo-European · Romance · Eurasia

2.1%

of the world’s languages share this trait

Catalan places “not” as a word before the verb and may add a second negative after it, so an interpreter must read the doubled form as one denial.

WALS 144I · SNegVO Order · Word&OptDoubleNeg

3.4%

of the world’s languages share this trait

Catalan uses its negative word after the verb only alongside another negative, so an interpreter must read the pair as a single denial.

WALS 144J · SVNegO Order · Word&OnlyWithAnotherNeg

5.6%

of the world’s languages share this trait

Catalan can wrap the verb in two negatives, one before and one after, so an interpreter must read the pair as one denial and never as a double negative that cancels.

WALS 144A · Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb · OptDoubleNeg

How Catalan is structured

Word ordersubject, object and verb
SVO
Adpositionsprepositions or postpositions
Prepositions
Adjectivebefore or after the noun
Noun-Adjective
Demonstrativethis and that, before or after
Demonstrative-Noun
Numeralnumber before or after the noun
Numeral-Noun
Genitivepossessor before or after
Noun-Genitive
Relative clausebefore or after the noun
Noun-Relative clause
Morphologyprefixing or suffixing
Not coded
Tonewhether pitch changes meaning
No tones
Casesnumber of noun cases
No morphological case-marking
Gendersnumber of noun genders
Not coded
Classifierscounting words for nouns
Not coded

Source: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.) 2013. WALS Online, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. Catalan entry: wals.info CTL. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as WALS codes them; each links to its datapoint. The clinical readings are Opalite’s own inferences and are not part of WALS.

FAQs about Catalan medical interpreters

Opalite uses the same underlying interpretation techniques for Catalan as it does for Spanish, Mandarin, and Cantonese. In Opalite’s published validation study, those three languages were evaluated in clinical conversations, with over 90% fewer errors than certified medical interpreters across the conversations studied.

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