Welsh-Catalan

Frequently students name Catalan or Welsh as languages they think do not belong to the Indo-European language family, perhaps because neither of them can be related to an autonomous state. Catalan, spoken in north eastern Spain (the area around Barcelona and on the Balearic Islands) and parts of south eastern France is a Romance language, just like French or Portuguese. Welsh is a Celtic language, thus belonging to a group of languages which used to be spoken in large parts of Western Europe before they were replaced by Romance languages and Germanic languages.