Thai maybe. Castilian, no, it's Spanish. Which happens to be the dialect of Spanish that I learned in Florida (due to proximity to Cuba). I know of know real difference between Spanish and Castilian other than pronunciation. For example, Yo is the same in both dialects, but in Castilian it is pronounced Jo, in "Cassical" Spanish (if there is such a thing) it's Yo.

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Castilian, no, it's Spanish.

So if I have a disc that has both a Spanish and a Catalan audiotrack - I have several, including the region 2 version of new Bond-flick 'Casino Royale', I should enter them both as 'Spanish'? I think not: I've used 'Other', so I'd agree that a Catalan audio option would be welcome. It seems to me that you're often a bit too quick to dismiss anything you haven't encountered yourself... Maybe you don't see many Catalan audio tracks in region 1, but over here, I'm seeing them more and more, so the request doesn't sound so strange...

Of course if both were permitted as separate it is likely that many tracks labelled as Spanish should infact be entered as the Catalan dialect and very few people would be aware which was correct resulting in bad data in the main Db.
I personally think they are so closely related, if pronunciation is the only real difference, it is best to leave as is.

LES TEVES MANS

    Embolcallen amb vels goig i tristesa.
    Són sostre d'una xarxa de perfum,
    són els ventalls, amor, del meu costum
    i serveixen d'espasa a la sorpresa.

    M'agraden quan alegen entre el fum
    o quan remouen brins de senzillesa;
    les teves mans són alegria encesa
    i fulles d'un pomer al clar de la llum.

    Castellets de l'amor. Flames de ploma.
    Són banderetes del teu parlar. Són
    i toquen sense pes, clares d'un món

    que tu modules des dels teus Bagdads.
    Respires per les mans, amor. Són poma
    i estel saboner quan renten els plats.

How about Chinese and Cantonese, are they the same thing?

I think Tomricci meant Catalan in his first post, because Castilian is just Spanish. I think Castilian is the name for the Spanish language spoken in Spain. In South America all sorts of other dialects are spoken.

Catalan is defenitely a seperate language and not a dialect. It's a mixture of the Spanish and French languages. Catalan is spoken in the Catalan region around Barcelona. For example the movie El mar is in Catalan and not in Spanish/Castilian.

There is no such thing as a "Spanish" (español)  language. The correct name is Castillian (Castellano). As it comes from Spain, it's usually called spanish (even in Spain), but if you ask any spanish what is the name of the language they speak, they'll all tell you "Castillian". Spanish is just an everyday simplification.

Spain is a Kingdom made from the joining of several other ones, so you get several different (offcial) languages there (not to speak of the uncountable dialects). Main languages are
Castillian (the state's official language, aka. Spanish, and used thru out the Kingdom),
Catalan (Català), used in Catalonia (Catalunya), with the capital in Barcelona,
Basque (Euskara), used in the Basque Country (Euskadi), based in Pamplona,
Galician (Gallego), used in Galicia, very similar to Portuguese, and main city in Santiago de Compostela.

Seeing that the only of these autonomous, with different laguages, territories that has enough population/economical power to influence spanish DVD editions is Catalonia, you only get to see catalonian dubbing on some spanish DVDs and never any of the other languages.

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Thai is appearing more and more, and I have several DVDs marked "other" on cause of it, too. So, I'd vote for inclusion.

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Chinese, as you know has actually a lot of languages that, although they sound "all the same" to us    they are actually quite different.
The 2 major ones (and the ones that appear on DVDs) are Mandarin and Cantonese.

Cheers,

I need Flemish.