Post by orion on Apr 9, 2007 13:42:12 GMT -5
amirab said:
orion said:
Well my principal work by now is study for my career but one month ago I started working at the local newspaper ( the university gave me a scholarship ). It consists of doing articles in Aranés, for a small supplement that they put on the newspaper.Aranés is another language, some people don't know but in Spain more languages( not dialects) are spoken besides the Spanish, there are Catalan, Galician, Aranés and Euskera.
By now I'm slightly nervous because I'm the youngest working there, I hope to do it well.
Don't worry. You'll do fine. But I have a question. Were is Aranés spoken? I'm just wondering.
Aranes is spoken in Aran Valley, in the north of Catalonia (Spain), thehee the place were I'm living , only 5.000 persons knows to talk in Aranes, it's an ancient language, some people say that it was the language of the Trouberes, you know , the people and pagans of the European middle ages in south - French.
Aranes = Occitan
Well. XD I think you'll understand better if you read the Wikipedia explanation:
Aranese (aranés in Occitan/Gascon/Aranese) is a variety of Pyrenean Gascon (a dialect of the Occitan language), spoken in Val d'Aran, in northwestern Catalonia (Spain), where it is one of the three official languages besides Catalan and Spanish.
Once considered to be an endangered language[citation needed], spoken mainly by older people, it is now experiencing a renaissance; it enjoys co-official status with Catalan and Spanish within the Val d'Aran, and since 1984 has been taught in schools.
About 90% of the inhabitants of the Aran Valley can understand it, and about 65% can speak it. Because of its co-official status the Aranese variety is currently one of the strongest actors in the Occitan sphere, even though it possesses less than 5,000 speakers. An Aranese-English/English-Aranese was published in 2006 and an Aranese Grammar (Gramatica aranesa) in March 2007.
Most Aranese are also fluent in Catalan, Spanish, and to a lesser extent also in French.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aranese_language
Here you can know more about the other languages in Spain I told to you -> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Spain
yes... the spanish we are a bit rare and complicated LOL
EXCUSE MY LONG SPEECH GIRLS