Are Valencians a distinct ethnic group?

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I, Clavdivs

You are a little bit confused.

Nobody in Spain comes from a different ethnic group than the rest of the spaniards; only the basques have a different and unknown origin (nowadays they are very mixed with the rest of the spaniards).
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About the basques: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_people
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All spaniards (except the basques) come from a PRE-INDO-EUROPEAN, CELTIC, IBERIAN and TARTESSIC origin, with many ethnic influences from its visitors along the history, as PHOENICIANS (colonisers), GREEKS (colonisers), ROMANS (conquerors and colonisers), JEWISH (emigrants), GOTHS (conquerors), GIPSIES (emigrants), ARABS & BERBERS (conquerors and emigrants), and NORDICS (emigrants).
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If you understand "ethnic" as a cultural fact, not a racial fact, then yes, there are many different ethnic groups in Spain.

Galicians (north-west Spain) talk GALLEGO, Asturians talk BABLE, Basques talk EUSKERA, Aragonese talk FABLA, and Catalans, Balearic islanders, Valencians and some Aragonese talk different dialects of CATALAN language. In the rest of Spain, the first language is Spanish, with its dialects (castilian, murcian, andalusian and extremaduran).

Each community has, moreover, its own cultural background in addition on the language.
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Example:

English: I love you
Spanish: Te quiero
Gallego: QuÃ©rote
Bable: QuiÃ©rote
Euskera: Maite zaitut
Fabla: Te quiero
Catalan: T'estimo
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Languages in Spain map:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EL7EffD3H4M/SWeFxYISApI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/ypjmv2MOI7s/s320/esp_lenguas.jpg
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Hope this helps.

Bita

We are not a distinct ethnic group, but each region of Spain has a different cultural background. It's because that when you meet a Spanish, he like to tell his region. We are proud of proud regional culture.

Xabier

They are CatalÃ people... but for political reasons refer to themselves as Valencian

read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_secessionism#In_Catalan

it is not a lot diffrent to any other CatalÃ spoken... the diffrence is less than that of ENGLISH UK and ENGLISH US

and this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Valencia

rtorto

They are the people from Valencia.

Are New Yorkers or Mancunians a distinct ethnic group???

geeez...

@Xabier; FFS!!, the fact that many of them might speak valenciano doesn't mean that they are "catalan people". Are irish "english people"? are peruvians "spanish people"?

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