Gascon dialect
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Gascon (English: /ˈɡæskən/; Gascon: [ɡasˈku(ŋ)], French: [ɡaskɔ̃]) is the name of the vernacular Romance variety spoken mainly in the region of Gascony, France. It is often considered a variety of Occitan, although some authors consider it a different language.[4][5][6]
| Gascon | |
|---|---|
| gascon | |
| Pronunciation | [ɡasˈku(ŋ)] |
| Native to | France Spain |
| Region | Gascony |
| Dialects | see below |
| Official status | |
Official language in | Spain |
Recognised minority language in | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | oc |
| ISO 639-3 | (code gsc was merged into oci in 2007)[1] |
| Glottolog | gasc1240 |
| ELP | Gascon |
| IETF | oc-gascon[2][3] |
 Gascon speaking area | |
 Gascon is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010) | |
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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.
Aranese, a southern Gascon variety, is spoken in Catalonia alongside Catalan and Spanish. Most people in the region are trilingual in all three languages, causing some influence from Spanish and Catalan. Both these influences tend to differentiate it more and more from the dialects of Gascon spoken in France. Most linguists now consider Aranese a distinct dialect of Occitan and Gascon. Since the 2006 adoption of the new statute of Catalonia, Aranese is co-official with Catalan and Spanish in all of Catalonia (before, this status was valid for the Aran Valley only).
It was also one of the mother tongues of the English kings Richard the Lionheart and his younger brother John Lackland.[citation needed]