> What about spanish-speaking people? Are they not also catalans?

No, they aren't. They are spanish.

As Fernando Pessoa said: my homeland is my language.

So they don’t have the right to decide about their future. Ok.

Will they be expelled from your country or will they have a chance to stay as foreigners in their own land?

> Will they be expelled from your country

Of course not. Why do you say that?

They will only have to respect the local law; probably nothing will change for them in practice, unless they want to work in a public service and they cannot already speak catalan.

Unless they cannot stand to live in a place where spanish is not official. In that case, well, they will easily find twenty countries with five hundred million spanish-speakers where they will feel truly at home. Problem is, as a catalan I have nowhere else to go.

Will they be catalans then, even though you don't consider them catalans now? Everything is very confusing.