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'Aranese' (''aranés'' in Occitan/Gascon/Aranese) is a variety of Pyrenean Gascon (a dialect of the Occitan language), spoken in Val d'Aran, in northwestern Catalonia (Spain), where it is one of the three official languages besides Catalan and Spanish.
Once considered to be an endangered language , spoken mainly by older people, it is now experiencing a renaissance; it enjoys co-official status with Catalan and Spanish within the Val d'Aran, and since 1984 has been taught in schools.
About 90% of the inhabitants of the Aran Valley can understand it, and about 65% can speak it. Because of its co-official status the Aranese variety is currently one of the strongest actors in the Occitan sphere, even though it possesses less than 5,000 speakers. An Aranese-English/English-Aranese dictionary was published in 2006 and an Aranese Grammar book (Gramatica aranesa) in March 2007.
Most Aranese are also fluent in Catalan, Spanish, and to a lesser extent also in French.

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See also

★ Occitan language

★ Languages of Spain

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★ ''Le Gascon de poche'', Jean-Marc Leclercq & Sèrgi Javaloyès, Assimil 2004, ISBN 2-7005-0345-7

External links

★ Aranese course

★ Generalitat of Catalonia page about aranese

★ Aranese <-> Catalan machine translation