The Gascon language is an Occitan, or langue doc is a Romance language characterized by its richness, variability, and by the intelligibility of its dialects. It is spoken by 2 to 10 million people in France, Italy, and Spain 8. An estimated 7 million people in France understand the language. It must be noted... Occitan dialect mostly spoken in Gascony (Gascogne in French) is a region in southwest France. It encompasses départements of Landes, Gers, and Hautes-Pyrénées and parts of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Lot-et-Garonne, Tarn-et-Garonne, Haute-Garonne, Gironde, and Ariège. Main industries are : fishing stock raising wine making... Gascony (in the Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. Subject to disclaimers. Trying... French This article is part of the series: This article is part of the series: Administrative divisions of France Regional level This article is part of the series: This article is part of the series: Administrative divisions of France Regional level Régions Régions doutre-mer Departmental level Départements... départements of Pyrénées-Atlantiques Details Information This article is part of the series: This article is part of the series: Administrative divisions of France Regional level This article is part of the series: This article is part of the series: Administrative divisions of France Regional level Régions... Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées Missing image Blason_france_Hautes-Pyrénées_petit.jpg Coat of Arms of Hautes-Pyrénées Details Information This article is part of the series: This article is part of the series: Administrative divisions of France Regional level This article is... Hautes-Pyrénées, Landes Missing image Blason_france_Landes_petit.jpg Coat of Arms of Landes Details Information This article is part of the series: This article is part of the series: Administrative divisions of France Regional level This article is part of the series: This article is part of the series: Administrative divisions of France... Landes, Gers Missing image Blason_france_Gers_petit.jpg Coat of Arms du Gers Details Information This article is part of the series: This article is part of the series: Administrative divisions of France Regional level This article is part of the series: This article is part of the series: Administrative divisions of France... Gers, Gironde Missing image Blason_france_Gironde_petit.jpg Coat of Arms de la Gironde Details Information This article is part of the series: This article is part of the series: Administrative divisions of France Regional level This article is part of the series: This article is part of the series: Administrative divisions of... Gironde, a part of Lot-et-Garonne Missing image Blason_france_Lot-et-Garonne_petit.jpg Coat of Arms du Lot-et-Garonne Details Information Number 47 Region Aquitaine Prefecture Agen Subprefecture Marmande Nérac Villeneuve-sur-Lot Population  - Total (1999)  - Density Ranked 72nd 305,380 57 /km² Area 5,361 km² Arrondissements 4 Cantons... Lot-et-Garonne, a part of Haute-Garonne Missing image Blason_france_Haute-Garonne_petit.jpg Coat of Arms de la Haute-Garonne Details Information Number 31 Region Midi-Pyrénées Prefecture Toulouse Subprefectures Saint-Gaudens, Haute-Garonne Muret Population  - Total (1999)  - Density Ranked 17th 1,046,338 166 /km² Area 6,309 km² Arrondissements 3... Haute-Garonne, and a part of Ariège Missing image Blason_france_Ariège_petit.jpg Coat of Arms of Ariège Details Information This article is part of the series: This article is part of the series: Administrative divisions of France Regional level This article is part of the series: This article is part of... Ariège), and in the small The Kingdom of Spain or Spain ( Spanish (espa ol or castellano) Spoken in: Mexico, Colombia, Spain, Argentina, Nicaragua, Chile, USA, Venezuela, Costa Rica , Cuba, Peru, and 34 other countries. Region: Total speakers: 417 million (including second language speakers) Ranking: 2 (first language speakers, may vary based on metric) Genetic classification... Spanish valley Val d'Aran, in the Northwest of Comunitat Autònoma de Catalunya In detail Capital Barcelona Official languages Spanish and Catalan In Val dAran, also Aranese. Area  - total  - % of Spain Ranked 6th 32 114 km² 6,3% Population  - Total (2003)  - % of Spain  - Density Ranked 2nd 6 506 440 15,6% 190... 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 or Aranais) is a dialect of Gascon (which is part of the Occitan language group of the Romance languages), spoken in Spain, where it is an official language. Considered to be an endangered language, being spoken mainly by older people, it is now experiencing a renaissance and... Aranese (Aranès)

Of these, only Aranese is spoken in Spain. Aranese has been greatly influenced by Catalan (Català) Spoken in: The Kingdom of Spain or Spain ( Spanish (espa ol or castellano) Spoken in: Mexico, Colombia, Spain, Argentina, Nicaragua, Chile, USA, Venezuela, Costa Rica , Cuba, Peru, and 34 other countries. Region: Total speakers: 417 million (including second language speakers) Ranking: 2 (first language speakers, may vary... Catalan and Categories: Pages containing IPA | Language stubs | Romance languages | Languages of Spain ... 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 (Euskara) Spoken in: The Kingdom of Spain or Spain ( Spanish (espa ol or castellano) Spoken in: Mexico, Colombia, Spain, Argentina, Nicaragua, Chile, USA, Venezuela, Costa Rica , Cuba, Peru, and 34 other countries. Region: Total speakers: 417 million (including second language speakers) Ranking: 2 (first language speakers, may vary based... Basque language have had mutual influences.

See also: There are a number of languages of Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no... Languages of France

External link

• Ethnologue report for Gascon (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=GSC)