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 former Crown of Aragon has stayed constant up to the modern day (Appendix 4). For that reason, the historical term 'Valencian' has existed together with the term 'Catalan', a fact which is documented in certain Valencian sources (Appendix 5) and which has become commonplace in Romance studies and in Valencian universities for the past few decades. Likewise, there are quite a few examples of attempts to avoid using one name or the other when referring to the linguistic system as a whole, via compound or syncretic terms such as 'the Valencian and Catalan language' (Appendix 6), as well as examples of suggestions of names that integrate various elements in an attempt to solve terminological diversity (Appendix 7).

Concerning the codification of language, it must be kept in mind that not all languages have chosen to follow a single, exclusive set of guidelines. There are codification models which are extremely centralist in nature and base themselves on one single literary variety (such as Italian, which is based primarily on the literary language of Florence); there are other models thatuse a variety of the language which was created based on elements from different dialects (such as Euskera Batua, or "unified Basque"); then there are others which respect the different varieties that exist within the language (such as Portuguese as used in Portugal and Brazil). It is this latter solution which the AVL considers to be the most appropriate one for our language and the ideal way of 7