The Gascon language, casually spoken | Wikitongues

The Gascon language is a Romance variety from the Gascony and Béarn regions of Southern France, and the Aran Valley in Catalonia. It is widely, though not unanimously, considered a variety of Occitan.

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More from Wikipedia: "Gascon (Occitan: [ɡasˈku], French: [ɡaskɔ̃]) is a dialect of Occitan, considered by some linguists to be a separate language. It is mostly spoken in Gascony and Béarn in southwestern France (in parts of the following French départements: Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées, Landes, Gers, Gironde, Lot-et-Garonne, Haute-Garonne, and Ariège) and in the Aran Valley of Catalonia. Aranese, a southern Gascon variety, is spoken in Catalonia and has been greatly influenced recently by Catalan and Spanish. Both these influences tend to differentiate it more and more from the dialects of Gascon spoken in France. Since the 2006 adoption of the new statute of Catalonia, Aranese is co-official with Catalan and Spanish in Catalonia (before, this status was valid for the Aran Valley only)."

[flutterlump]

What a beautiful, precious, and fascinating language. Glad it has official status in the Aran Valley.

[Kevin-jcfx]

This feels to me like a blend between french, Portuguese and Italian. It's a very beautiful languages. I never heard it before but I could understand a few words. She also has such a beautiful voice and sing really well.

[alfonsolanterobenedito]

esta lengua fue hecha para la poesía. Conservenla por favor

[rhymesandvibes]

as a french speaker I understood more than I thought I would!

[ThatBernie]

Beautiful! It sounds reminiscent of Iberian Romance languages, especially Catalan.

[Blublod]

Beautiful country, beautiful language, beautiful poetry, and a beautiful video overall, with excellent acoustics so that I could capture the nuances of pronunciation. If you speak Spanish, Catalan, and French, you can easily understand everything being said.

[frbeast]

Gascon is surpassingly influenced by Aquitani, which Aquitani is related to Basque.
Another intriguing fact is Basque and Gascon share etymological roots.

[DoraEmon-xfbr]

Be soi uros d’entener la mia lenga de cor parlada sus aqueth cadena YT !
Que vieni de Bigorre tabé mes ara que demori en so de nostes amics Biarnes.

I come from Bigorre too and we speak slightly differently.
I’m very pleased to see young people keeping the language alive, and in a beautiful way that is. I’m definitely buying this poetry book if it is available.
The website is currently not working.

[marcosturla]

Tres belle langue, qui a tellement de sons et de mots partages avev le catalan et les dialects de l italie du nord.

[Hun_Uinaq]

¡Dios santísimo, me enamoro! 😊 Magnífica presentación por una dama totalmente encantadora. Bello video.

[mkgvlc]

For me, as a valencian it is clear that all make part of a common dialectal system.

The language of troubadours, which was the first romance language to have a literary influence in all of europes courts, reaching its peak with the noveks of the golden century in Valencia and Catalunya.

Big hug to our occitan cousins who have resisted so bravely to the Jacobin state and its cultural genocide.
Som i serem ////

[richardbenitez]

I looked up Gascony because I’m reading the Three Musketeers.! Huh. The 4th musketeer is the GasCon himself.

[Waseem]

Please do a video about Jugari Arabic. It's an endangered variety of Arabic spoken in Central Asia.

[charlesbubba]

I'm Italian and know some French and can almost understand.

[NoFace-gn]

What a interesting

The pronunciation and the sound....

One of my favourite YouTube channels, I hope people keep their regional dialect.

[hisbigal]

It sounds like a combination of Catalan and Provençal, with a bit of Old French thrown in for good measure. I like it.

[robertbriquet]

I speak 3 languages Biarnes/Gascon, French and English. Que parli lo bearnés. qu'ei lo gascon dab un accent drin diferent. Qu demori enter Orthez e Salies dens ua campanha supèrba dab vista suus Pirenèus. Qu'ètz totas benvengudas e que vs'aconselhi de visitar Bearn dab la tradicions hòrtas e generosas, qu'ei un endret shens societat patriarcau. Açò qu'ei estat escrivut en grafia unificada .

[ДмитрийСеменихин-ъъ]

quelle belle langue, merci! pensez-vous que d'Artagnan de Béarn la parlait?

[onemore]

Catalan and Portuguese got married and had a child, Gascon ❤

[danteuribe]

Què :') no parlo ni gascò, ni occità, ni aranès hahah, ni cap llengua d'oc, però he pogut comprendre-ho tot pel meu coneixement del català. Em sembla preciós que a més de només un petit monòleg hagi decidit recitar poesia i també cantar.