Gascon language is a
romance language mostly spoken in
Gascony, the
French départements of Pyrenees Atlantiques, Hautes Pyrenees, and Ariege, and in the small
Spanish valley
Val d'Aran, on the Northwest of
Catalonia. Some linguist consider it a dialect of
Occitan language. The Gascon language comprises four dialects:
- Landese (Landais)
- Bearnese (Béarnais)
- Ariegese (Ariégeois)
- Aranese (Aranès)
Of these, only Aranese is spoken in Spain. Aranese have received a great influence from
Catalan and
Spanish, and thus differentiating it from its French counterparts. It is co-oficial with Spanish and Catalan.
Gascon and Basque language have had mutual influences.
External link
Ethnologue report for Gascon (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=GSC)
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