Gascon language
The
Gascon language is an
Occitan dialect mostly spoken in
Gascony (in the
French departments of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées,
Landes,
Gers,
Gironde, a part of
Lot-et-Garonne, a part of
Haute-Garonne, and a part of Ariège), and in the small
Spanish valley
Val d'Aran, in the Northwest of
Catalonia. Some linguists consider it a separate language but usually these are not speakers of Gascon. Gascon comprises four subdialects:
- Landese (Landais)
- Bearnese (Béarnais)
- Ariegese (Ariégeois)
- Aranese (Aranès)
Of these, only Aranese is spoken in Spain. Aranese has been greatly influenced by
Catalan and
Aragonese. This influence differentiates it from the dialects of Gascon spoken in France. Aranese is co-official with Spanish and Catalan in the Val d'Aran.
Gascon and the Basque language have had mutual influences.
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