Editing Occitan language (section)

===Usage outside France===
[[File:Europe2005 bossost-aranes1.jpg|thumb|Aranese signage in [[Bossòst]], [[Val d'Aran]], Spain]]
* In the Val d'Aran, in the northwest corner of [[Catalonia]], [[Spain]], Aranese (a variety of Gascon) is spoken. It is an official language of [[Catalonia]] together with Catalan and Spanish.
* In [[Italy]], Occitan is also spoken in the [[Occitan Valleys]] ([[Alps]]) in [[Piedmont]]. An Occitan-speaking enclave also has existed at [[Guardia Piemontese]] ([[Calabria]]) since the 14th century. Italy adopted in 1999 a ''Linguistic Minorities Protection Law'', or "Law 482", which includes Occitan; however, [[Italian language|Italian]] is the dominant language. The [[Piedmontese language]] is extremely close to Occitan.
* In [[Monaco]], some Occitan speakers coexist with remaining native speakers of [[Monégasque dialect|Monégasque]] ([[Ligurian (Romance language)|Ligurian]]). French is the dominant language.
* Scattered Occitan-speaking communities have existed in different countries:
** There were Occitan-speaking colonies in [[Württemberg]] (Germany) since the 18th century, as a consequence of the [[Camisard]] war. The last Occitan speakers were heard in the 1930s.
** In the Spanish [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Basque country]], Gascon was spoken in [[San Sebastián]], perhaps as late as the early 20th century.<ref>[http://www.osoa.net/Articles/Desaparicion_del_Euskara_por_el_este_y_norte.pdf Desparicion del Euskara por el norte y el este] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120327223934/http://www.osoa.net/Articles/Desaparicion_del_Euskara_por_el_este_y_norte.pdf |date=27 March 2012 }} (in Spanish): ''En San Sebastián [...] se habla gascón desde el siglo XIV hasta el 1919''</ref>
** In the Americas, Occitan speakers exist:
*** in the United States, in [[Valdese, North Carolina]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Ghigo |first=F. |year=1980 |title=The Provençal speech of the Waldensian colonists of Valdese, North Carolina |location=Valdese |publisher=Historic Valdese Foundation }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Holmes |first=U. T. |year=1934 |title=Waldensian speech in North Carolina |journal=Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie |volume=54 |pages=500–513 }}</ref>
*** in Canada, in [[Quebec]] where there are Occitan associations such as ''Association Occitane du Québec'' and ''Association des Occitans''.<ref>[http://www.expatries-france.com/resultVille.php?co=0&mots=24&mot2=14 Expatries-france.com<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414130217/http://www.expatries-france.com/resultVille.php?co=0&mots=24&mot2=14 |date=14 April 2021 }}, Selection Villes</ref>
*** [[Pigüé|Pigüé, Argentina]] – Community settled by 165 Occitans from the Rodez-Aveyron area of Cantal in the late 19th century.
*** [[Guanajuato|Guanajuato, Mexico]] – A sparse number of Occitan settlers are known to have settled in that state in the 19th century.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mexicofrancia.org/articulos/p17.pdf |title=De mitos y realidades: la emigracíon barcelonette a México 1845–1891 |last=Siller |first=Javier Pérez |language=es |publisher=México–Francia |access-date=31 August 2021 |archive-date=3 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140403221359/http://www.mexicofrancia.org/articulos/p17.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>