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Comment: What is "There is a lot of variation in speech within the mountains of Couserans"? There is no reference to this. This article is written in a pretty informal tone and not very encyclopedic; it currently serves mainly as a list for the phonology, the sample text isn't really enhancing the article. Utopes (talk / cont) 06:51, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
Couseranais (Occitan: Coseranés) is a dialect of Gascon. It is spoken in the historical county of Couserans, in the western part of the modern French department of Ariège.[1] It can also be called Couseranese in English, but Couseranais is the proper name used in Linguistics.
| Couseranais | |
|---|---|
| Native to | France |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
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People who speak Couseranais might refer to their language as Ariègeois (meaning the speech of Ariège), but this term has ambiguity and can refer to any dialect spoken in the department of Ariège.[2]
Classification
According to French historian and philologist, Achille Luchaire, Couseranais is a dialect of Commingeois.[3] However, others such as Alice Traisnel refer to it as a seperate Gascon dialect. She explained that this confusion is caused by the similarity of these two dialects (in response to why Volvetrais might be seen as a Commingeois dialect instead of as a transitional).[2]
Phonology
The following sounds have been recorded to appear in Couseranais. Because there is no standard form of Couseranais, it is uncertain whether these sounds reflect the dialect of Sentein, which is spoken by Abbé Castet, the scientist who did this study, or if it shows sounds that are common across all Couseranais dialects.[1]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i y | u | |
| Close-mid | e | o | |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ||
| Open | a |
| Labial | Alveolar | Post-Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasals | m | n | ŋ | ||||
| Plosives | p b | t d | k g | ||||
| Fricatives | f v | s z | ʃ ʒ | h | |||
| Affricatives | t͡ʃ | ||||||
| Liquids | l | j | ʀ |
Dialects
Couseranais has two main dialects: Haut-Couseranais, spoken in the mountains, and Bas-Couseranais, spoken in the plains. Both these dialects have their own subdialects.
1. Haut-Couseranais:
- Gironnais, spoken in Saint-Girons.
- Castillonais, spoken in Castillon-la-Bataille.
- Sentein, a transitional dialect in between Couseranais and Catalan, spoken near the upper part of the Lez river.[4] This area is also referred to as the Biros valley, which has been defined as the communes of Antras, Bordes-Uchentein, Bonac-Irazein, Sentein and Balacet.[5]
- Massatois, spoken in Massat. Although labelled as a Haut-Couseranais dialect, it has no apparent Gascon or Languedocian features.[2]
2. Bas-Couseranais:
- Séronais, a transitional dialect in between Couseranais and Fuxéen.
- Volvetrais, a transitional dialect in between Couseranais and Bas-Commingeois.[2]
References
- ^ 1.0 1.1 Castet, Abbé. Études grammaticales sur le dialecte gascon du Couserans (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-07-22.
- ^ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Traisnel, Alice. Langue Et Culture Occitanes Sur Le Territoire Du Parc Naturel Regional Des Pyrenees Ariegeoises Et Du Pays Couserans (PDF). p. 10, 11.
- ^ Luchaire, Denis Jean Achille (1879). Études sur les idiomes pyrénéens de la région française. p. 253-254, 324-329.
- ^ Luchaire, Denis Jean Achille (1879). Études sur les idiomes pyrénéens de la région française. p. 253-254, 324-329.
- ^ Castet, Abbé (1889). Proverbes Patois de la Vallée de Biros en Couserans (Ariège). p. 2.