Aranese language
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Aranese (Aranés or Aranais) 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. It is a Gascon mountain dialect which benefits, like Béarnais, from a certain linguistic normalization which keeps it original.
Considered to be an endangered language, being spoken mainly by older people, it is now experiencing a renaissance 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 Spanish, Catalan and French.
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