Aranese dialect
Spoken in
Indo-European languages
- Aranese
Oc ( Occitan )
Oci ( Occitan )
Oci ( Occitan )
The Aranese language ( okzit.: aran, French: aranais, Catalan: . ARANES, Spanish: ARANES ) is a language spoken throughout the Val d' Aran variant of Gascon, which in turn is part of the Occitan. The Aranese is since 2006 in all of Catalonia, in addition to the Catalan and Spanish, the official language. In the Val d' Aran is spoken (after 1996 census ) of 65 % of the 6000 population Aranese. Approximately 90 % understand the language.
The current situation
The Aranese is strongly characterized in its development and in its present form by the "political isolation" from the rest of the Occitan language area. Lexicographic and syntactic innovations often come from Catalan or Spanish. In Val d' Aran does not have the linguistic replacement occurred, the Occitan experienced by many centuries practiced, aligned centrally to Paris culture system in France. Just as the Catalans hold the Aranes firmly in the strongest terms to their language. The administrative function of the Val d' Aran in Catalonia additionally underlines the striking parallelism of the development of the Aranese and Catalan language in terms of formal aspects. 1982/83 developed and the Catalan Government ( Generalitat de Catalunya) published orthographic standards for Aranese that appeal to the guidelines of the Institute of Occitan Studies ( Institut d' Estudis Occitans ) oriented for the spelling of the Gascon. Since 1984, Aranese is used in schools as a subject and as a language of instruction. 1985, a center for the promotion and strengthening of the Aranese language ( Centre de Normalització lingüística ) was founded. Adult education and language consulting services for those citizens who have never had the chance because of the language policy history to learn the written form of their mother language, are the main objectives of this organization. Larger lexicographical and grammatical projects, such as the development of dictionaries, grammars and textbooks of Aranese language be promoted through formal Catalan and Aranese institutions. All measures to promote the Aranese language by the Catalan Government ( Generalitat de Catalunya) and the Aranese Council ( Conselh Generau de Aran ) organized and financed. These parallel promotion of Aranese and Catalan language - also called normalització lingüística - rooted in a common rejection of both languages by the Franco regime.
With the new Catalan Statute of Autonomy of 2006 Aranese has been elevated to the status of an official language on the whole territory of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia.
Characteristics
The first most obvious to an outsider differences of Aranese ask the opposite Occitan otherwise certain articles and personal pronouns is:
In a comparison with four other Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish and Catalan) are based on the Latin language seven major trends of Aranese vocabulary presented (see also the related Vocabulary chart):
Development trends of the Aranese vocabulary according to the seven rules of inference compared to four other Romance languages.
The seven -called derivation rules apply in a similar way for the Gascon.