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Topic: Aranese language


In the News (Sun 12 Oct 08)

  
  info: Aranese_language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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 northwestern Catalonia (Spain), where it is one of the three official languages besides Catalan and Spanish.
Aranese language, alphabet and pronunciationAranese (Aranés) Aranese is a variant of the Gascon dialect of Occitan spoken in the Val d'Aran in the northeast of Spain.
Aranese language - Synonyms from Thesaurus.comSynonyms of Aranese language at Thesaurus.com.
www.napoli-pizza.net /Aranese_language.html   (516 words)

  
 Aranese language
Aranese (Aranès) is a dialect of Gascon (which is part of the Occitan language group of the Romance languages), spoken in Val d'Aran, Spain, where it is an official language.
Considered to be an endangered language, being spoken mainly by older people, it is now experiencing a renaissance and since 1984 it is taught in school.
Most Aranese are also fluent in Spanish, Catalan and French.
www.abacci.com /wikipedia/topic.aspx?cur_title=Aranese   (125 words)

  
 OCCITAN in Spain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The language of Val d'Aran is a variant of Gascon, the language of Gascony (one of the three main varieties of Occitan).
Aranese is the official language of the Val d'Aran, together with Catalan and Spanish.
Aranese is limited to a total presence of one programme a week on the Catalan TV service and a short daily programme in the radio schedule of the Autonomous Community.
www.minority2000.net /Gr-75/t64gb.htm   (270 words)

  
 EUROPA - Education and Training - Europa - Regional and minority languages - Euromosaïc study
Aranese is not used as the main classroom language in any secondary or technical school.
Aranese does not seem to be used within the judicial system, and it appears that no provision has been made for a translation service.
On the other hand, the impact of Aranese teaching in schools was already discernible in the relatively high rates of systematic use of Aranese recorded among children under the age of ten compared to adolescents, almost 40% of whom habitually expressed themselves in Spanish.
ec.europa.eu /education/policies/lang/languages/langmin/euromosaic/es7_en.html   (2638 words)

  
 Regional Languages of Spain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This group of languages is spoken by an estimated 10 million people, with perhaps 7 million using it as their primary language.
Geographically, it is spoken in the provinces of the eastern seaboard; Catalonia (official language), Valencia (Valenciana, official language) and the Balearic Isles (Balear Catalan, official language) as well as part of Aragon.
Languages such as Aragonese (perhaps 30,000 speakers), Fala (10,000 speakers) and Occitan (Gascon, Aranese) though generally supported by local statute, currently have limited representation in the local media or school curriculum.
www.practicalspain.com /Language.htm   (485 words)

  
 The Aranese Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Aranese is the variant of the Gascon dialect spoken in La Val D’Aran.
This prolonged contact situation of Aranese and Castilian people determined a situation where Castilian was considered a prestigious language, and Aranese was considered the language used by cattlemen and farmers.
Moreover, this change of language frequently begins with women who manifest in choice of code of marriage partner and the language in which they choose to bring up their children.
wwwa.urv.net /centres/Departaments/dfag/gallego.html   (1807 words)

  
 U.S.ENGLISH Foundation Official Language Research - Spain: Legislation
THE CATALAN LANGUAGE AND THE PROPOSED REVISION OF THE CATALAN STATUTE OF AUTONOMY OF 2005
As such, Catalan is the language of normal and preferential use in all Catalan public administration bodies and in the public media, and is also the language of normal use for teaching and learning in the education system.
The Catalan and Castilian languages shall be sufficiently represented in the curricula.
www.us-english.org /foundation/research/olp/viewResearch.asp?CID=31&TID=1   (11403 words)

  
 novetats
The language of all the institutions of Catalonia, and particularly of the Administration of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia, of the local Administration, of public corporations, of public companies and services, of the media and education at all its levels and types.
All pupils, whatever their usual language may be whenever they enter education, should be able to use the two official languages normally and correctly at the end of compulsory education.
The language of Occitan spoken in the Vall d’Aran is historically and popularly known as Aranese.
www.observatoridelallengua.org /htm/novetat.php?llengua=en&opcio=novetats.php&id=32   (957 words)

  
 List of Romance Languages & Dialects with Number of Speakers and Areas of Distribution
The northern limit is the Pyrenean border, separating Aragon from Occitania; the western limit is the border of Navarra; the eastern limit is north of Montso.
The Academy of the Asturian Language was formed in 1981, to revive the academy of the 18th century.
Galician has had many decades of development as a language of serious literature, including poetry, essays on novel, ideological, philosophical, and sociological topics, and for all levels of education, including higher education.
www.orbilat.com /General_Survey/List_of_Romance_Languages.html   (3673 words)

  
 Aranese language
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www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Aranese_language   (1795 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for language code:gsc
Inherently intelligible with Aranese Gascon in Spain, which is a dialect.
It is an official language within the valley.
Literacy rate in second language: Nearly 100% in Spanish, 50% in Catalan.
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=gsc   (307 words)

  
 When the rain in Spain turns gloriously to snow - The Boston Globe
Straight-lining its history to the Romans who came over the Bonaigua Pass, steeped in centuries of rural isolation and oozing authentic charm, the valley became tenuously connected with the rest of Spain when the first road from the Spanish side reached the region in 1925.
Then came the civil war and the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco and most of the Aranese were happy to be far from the situation.
The local Aranese language is closely related to what is spoken in equally isolated farming villages across the border in the French Pyrnes, though now, of course, everyone also speaks Spanish, too.
www.boston.com /travel/articles/2005/01/16/when_the_rain_in_spain_turns_gloriously_to_snow   (1231 words)

  
 Aranese language, alphabet and pronunciation
Aranese is a variant of the Gascon dialect of Occitan spoken in the Val d'Aran in the northeast of Spain.
Aranese has co-official status with Catalan and Spanish, and has been taught in schools since 1984.
Aranese, Aromanian, Asturian, Catalan, Corsican, French, Friulian, Galician, Genoese, Italian, Jèrriais, Latin, Lombard, Mirandese, Moldovan, Occitan, Piedmontese, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansh, Sardinian, Sicilian, Spanish, Venetian, Walloon
www.omniglot.com /writing/aranese.htm   (399 words)

  
 Blog : CATALONIA: MY BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY
Catalonia is the original heartland of the Catalan language, and remains the most important and largest territory where the language is spoken.
Catalan is one of the two official languages of Catalonia, as established in the Catalan Statute of Autonomy [2]: the other is Castilian, which is the language throughout Spain (its official status confirmed by the 1978 Spanish Constitution).
Occitan, in its Aranese variety (a dialect of Gascon) is official and subject to special protection in the Val d'Aran (Aran Valley).
asiafriendfinder.com /blog/15103/post_52026.html   (560 words)

  
 Aranese   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Aranese Information on Aranese, a variant of Occitan spoken in the Aran valley in the Catalonian Pyrenees (Spain).
Euromosaic - Occitan Sociolinguistic study of the use of Occitan, a major regional language in southern France, as well as the language of small minorities in Italy (in the northwest and in Calabria) and in Spain (Aranese).
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www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Aranese.html   (109 words)

  
 Aragonese - Wiktionary
The language of Aragon, nowadays only spoken as a mother tongue by a few thousand people in some valleys of the Pyrenees.
The Spanish language spoken in Aragon when influenced by Aragonese traits.
Of, from, or pertaining to Aragon, the Aragonese people or the Aragonese language.
en.wiktionary.org /wiki/Aragonese   (71 words)

  
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www.caib.es /conselleries/educacio/dgpoling/user/catalaeuropa/angles/sumariangles.htm   (59 words)

  
 Aragonese
Aragonese has 11,000 or more active speakers, including 500 elderly monolinguals.
An additional 20,000 people use it as second language.
Different from the local variety of Spanish (also called 'Aragonese', which is influenced by High Aragonese).
www.flw.com /languages/aragonese.htm   (52 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for language code:arg
20,000 people use it as second language (1993 Counsel of the Aragonese Language).
There is an Aragonese Speakers' League (Ligallo de Fablans de l'Aragonés) in Zaragoza, and a Council of the Aragonese Language (Consello d'a Fabla Aragonesa) in Uesca.
There are 5 magazines in Aragonese, and at least 6 organizations of first-language speakers working in the language.
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=arg   (186 words)

  
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Copies should be available in college and university libraries and in municipal libraries.
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That guide contains numerous suggestions about getting started on a research paper and a statement on avoiding plagiarism that should prove useful to beginning researchers."
www.sdc-gov.ch /maps/spain.html   (162 words)

  
 Aranese language Did You Mean Aranese?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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.
Article on Aranese language, category, different spelling or sense
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www.did-you-mean.com /Aranese_language.html   (235 words)

  
 The Little Prince Aranese - Aranesisch - Aranais   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Remarks: Thanks to the editor Jaume Arbonès who sent me the book in 2005.
The Aranese language (a variant of Occitan) is spoken in the Aran valley / Val d'Aran in northern Spain.
The valley is situated at the border to France and surrounded by the Pyrenean mountains.
www.petit-prince.at /pp-aranes.htm   (111 words)

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