Gascon dialect
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Gascon is the vernacular Romance variety spoken mainly in the region of Gascony, France. It is often considered a variety of larger Occitan macrolanguage, although other authors consider it a separate
Trilingual sign in Bayonne: French, Basque, and Gascon Occitan ("Mayretat", "Sindicat d'initiatibe")
According to the testimony of Bernadette Soubirous, the Virgin Mary spoke to her (Lourdes, 25 March 1858) in Gascon saying: Que soy era Immaculada Councepciou ("I am the Immaculate Conception", the phrase being reproduced under this statue in the Lourdes grotto in Mistralian/Febusian spelling), confirming the proclamation of this Catholic dogma four years earlier.
Aquitanian language
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The Aquitanian language, also Vasco-Aquitanian or Eusko-Aquitanian, was the language of the ancient Vasco-Aquitanian peoples, namely the Aquitani and Vascones. The Aquitani lived in Roman times betwee
The Lerga stela (Navarre), bearing the name Ummesahar, read from Basque ume ('child') and zahar ('old')
