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Gascon
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Occitan dialect spoken in southwestern France, and Catalonia, Spain
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [ ɡasˈku(ŋ) ]
- Native to
- France , Spain
- Region
- Gascony
- Language family
- Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Romance Italo-Western Western Romance Gallo-Romance Occitano-Romance Occitan Gascon
- Dialects
- see below
- Official language in
- Spain Catalonia (as Aranese )
- Recognised minority language in
- France Nouvelle-Aquitaine Occitania
- Iso 639 3
- gsc retired and subsumed into oci
- Glottolog
- gasc1240
- Elp
- Gascon
- Ietf
- oc-gascon
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Gascon ( English: /ˈɡæskən/ GASK-ən, Gascon: [ɡasˈku(ŋ)], French: [ɡaskɔ̃] ) is the vernacular Romance variety spoken mainly in the region of Gascony, France. It is often considered a variety of larger Occitan macrolanguage, although other authors consider it a separate language due to hindered mutual intelligibility criteria and earlier separation from the other Occitano-Romance varieties.
Gascon is mostly spoken in Gascony and Béarn (Béarnese dialect) in southwestern France (in parts of the following French départements: Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées, Landes, Gers, Gironde, Lot-et-Garonne, Haute-Garonne, and Ariège) and in the Val d'Aran of Catalonia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gascon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.