Inhabitant of Béarn
right|200px|flag of Béarn The inhabitant of Béarn is a variety of the Gascon, dialect Occitan. It had been the native tongue of the inhabitants of the Béarn formerly, very widespread sixty more years ago, then declining, before reappearing for thirty years.
The calandretas (in Gascon), small larks ) are the bilingual schools inhabitant of Béarn-French. It is the Gascon equivalent of the Diwan Breton , of the Ikastola K Basque or Bressola north-Catalan woman. The first calandreta was born with Pau in 1979.
Historically, the language inhabitant of Béarn was employed in the official texts with French until the Révolution.
Use of the language
A survey of 1982 in Béarn indicates that 51% of the population speak inhabitant of Béarn, 70% includes/understands it, 85% is favorable to the safeguard of the language.
Francois Bayrou candidate with the election presidential 2007, originating in Béarn and aggregate of traditional letters usually speaks the inhabitant of Béarn; he gave an opinion in favor of the defense of the regional languages at the time of his speech of Perpignan.
Coloured expressions
(modern C-W communication - traditional C-W communication)- Diu biban - alive Diu (to pronounce Diw Bibann)
- Hilh of whore - Hilh of puta
- Macarèu
Origin
The initiative comes from Jeanne d' Albret. She returned an ordinance on the way of lending oath in justice. Whereas the Inhabitants of Béarn swore until there on the cross and the missal, they had from now on to raise the hand and to swear in the name of the alive god, alive Diu .It is a testimony of will of a personality with strong character. Jeanne de Navarre sought the recovery of manners and a purer religion, a less corrupted life. That appeared by an violent action (it drove out the thus catholic S) and the expansion of the ideas of the Réforme within Béarn.
It is as with these words as Henri IV took the head of the armies.
See too
Gascon - School Calandreta
External bonds
- the inhabitant of Béarn
- language inhabitant of Béarn and Gascon