Catalan is often wrongly classed as one of Europe's minority languages, and is therefore associated with such languages as Basque, Breton, Galician or Occitan. Actually, however, Catalan has considerably more speakers than these languages, as the following table shows: Catalan is not a minority language

In fact, if we consider the number of inhabitants of the areas where it is official (Catalonia, the region of València, the Balearic Islands and Andorra), Catalan is the seventh language of the European Union, below Dutch and above Portuguese, Greek, Swedish, Finnish and Danish. In millions of speakers:

Source: Directorate-General of Language Policy