Editing Gascon dialect (section)

== Gascon varieties ==
Gascon is divided into three varieties or dialect sub-groups:<ref name = sumien> Classification of X. Ravier according to the "Linguistic Atlas of Gascony". Covered in particular by D. Sumien, “Classificacion dei dialèctes occitans”, “Linguistica occitana”, 7, September 2009, [http://www.revistadoc.org/file/Linguistica-occitana-7-Sumien online].</ref>
* Western Gascon, which includes [[Landese dialect]] and North-Gascon (bazadais, high-landese and bordelese)
* Eastern or interior Gascon, known as ''parlar clar'' ([[Béarnese dialect|Béarnese]])
* Pyrenean or southern Gascon, which includes [[Aranese dialect]]

The Jews of Gascony, who resided in [[Bordeaux]], [[Bayonne]] and other cities, spoke until the beginning of the 20th century a [[sociolect]] of Gascon with special phonetic and lexical features, which linguistics named ''[[Judeo-Gascon]]''.<ref>Peter Nahon (2017). [https://www.academia.edu/34715462/Peter_Nahon_Diglossia_among_French_Sephardim_as_a_motivation_for_the_genesis_of_Judeo_Gascon_Journal_of_Jewish_Languages_5_1_2017_p_104_119 Diglossia among French Sephardim as a motivation for the genesis of ‘Judeo-Gascon’], ''Journal of Jewish Languages'' 5/1, 2017, p. 104-119.</ref> It has been superseded by a sociolect of French that retains most of the lexical features of this former variety.<ref> Nahon, Peter (2018). ''Gascon et français chez les Israélites d’Aquitaine. Documents et inventaire lexical''. Paris: Classiques Garnier</ref>

[[Béarnese dialect|Béarnais]], the official language when Béarn was an independent state, does not correspond to a unified language: the three forms of Gascon are spoken in Béarn (in the south, Pyrenean Gascon, in the center and in the east, Eastern Gascon; to the north-west, Western Gascon).

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!
!French
!Landese
!Béarnese and Bigourdan
!Aranese
!Commingeois and Couseranais 
!Interior Gascon
!Bazadais and High-Landese
!Bordelese
|-
|-
| Affirmation: He is going
| Il y va
| Qu' i va.
| Que i va.
| I va.
| Que i va.
| Que i va.
| (Qu’) i va/vai.
| I vai.
|-
|-
| Negation: He wasn't listening to him
| Il ne l’écoutait pas
| Ne l’escotèva pas 
| Non / ne l’escotava pas
| Non la escotaua
| Non l’escotava cap
| Ne l’escotava pas
| (Ne) l’escotèva pas 
| Ne l'escotava pas/briga
|-
|-
| Plural formation: the young men – the young women<br />
| Les jeunes hommes – les jeunes filles
| Los gojats – las gojatas
| Eths / los gojats – eras / las gojatas
| Es gojats – es gojates
| Eths gojats – eras gojatas
| Los gojats – las gojatas
| Los gojats – las gojatas
| Los gojats – las dònas/gojas
|}