Gascon language

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classification

  • In Occitan language

    Gascon, in the southwest of France, is usually classified as an Occitan dialect, though to most other southerners it is today less readily comprehensible than Catalan. Some scholars claim that it has always been distinct from Occitan, because of the influence of a non-Celtic Aquitanian…

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restoration by Garros

  • In Pey de Garros

    …poet whose work raised the Gascon dialect to the rank of a literary language in 16th-century France.

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