Thirty years of graphic codification. The need to implement a norm in the Occitan of the Aran Valley

Abstract

The Nòrmes ortogràfiques [sic] der aranés were approved more than thirty years ago. Since that time, the Occitan of the Aran Valley is written in the general spelling of Occitan, and it stops being a group of eminently oral varieties of Gascon. However, in these three decades that separate us from the Nòrmes, Aranese has endured the absence of a codification that went beyond graphic questions. Therefore, in the recent production in Occitan in the Aran Valley, linguistic forms or solutions have begun to circulate that separate it clearly from what would be preferable from the point of view of a good fixation and elaboration of Aranese. In this work we will take these problems and we will try to reason the perfectibility of those choices that are common in recent times in some publications devoted to teaching Aranese Occitan or to orient minimally its linguistic uses.

Keywords : Occitan, Aranese, codification, standardisation, sociolinguistics.