Aranese language
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Aranese (Aranés in Gascon/Aranese and in Spanish; Aranès in Catalan; Aranais in French) is a dialect of Gascon (which is part of the Occitan language group of the Romance languages), spoken in Val d'Aran, in Spain, where it is an official language.
Once considered to be an endangered language [[Citing sources citation needed]], 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.
Most Aranese are also fluent in Catalan, Spanish, and French.
See also
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