Spain
As a percentage of the general population of all Spain, Spanish is natively spoken by 74%, Catalan by 17%, Galician by 7% and Basque by 2% of all Spaniards. Occitan is spoken by less than 5,000 people, only in the small region of "Val d'Aran".
Other Romance minority languages, though not official, have special recognition, such as the Astur-Leonese language ("asturianu", "bable" or "llionés") and Aragonese ("aragonés") in Aragon.
Names given to the Spanish language
Spaniards tend to call the language "español" (Spanish) to contrast it to languages of other states, such as in a list with French ("francés"), German ("alemán"), etc. "Castellano" (Castilian) by contrast, is more often used when contrasting the language with other regional languages of Spain: official languages like Basque, Catalan and Galician or unofficial ones like Aragonese, Asturian, Extremaduran and Leonese. The Spanish Constitution of 1978 uses the term "el castellano" to define the official language of the whole State, opposed to "las demás lenguas españolas" ("the other Spanish languages"). Article 3 reads in part: