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| | Catalonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Catalonia (Catalan: Catalunya, Spanish: Cataluña, Aranese: Catalonha, French: Catalogne) is an Autonomous Community of Spain, in the north-east corner of the country. |
 | | Occitan, in its Aranese variety (a dialect of Gascon) is official and subject to special protection in the Val d'Aran (Aran Valley), which is notable, as this small region of 7,000 is the only place where Occitan (spoken mainly in France and some Italian valleys) has full official status. |
 | | According to the 2001 Aranese Linguistic Census [19] (http://www6.gencat.net/llengcat/aran/docs/a_aran_cens.pdf), knowledge of Aranese in the Occitan-speaking territory of Aran is as follows: |
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