Claim: There is a Western Romance Language called Gascon.
Evidence: Based on mutual intelligibility , Dalby counts a dozen languages : Portuguese , Spanish , Asturian-Leonese , Aragonese , Catalan , Gascon , Provençal , Gallo-Wallon , French , Franco-Provençal , Romansh , and Ladin.
Gascon -LRB- -LSB- ɡasˈku -RSB- , -LSB- ɡaskɔ̃ -RSB- -RRB- is a dialect of Occitan.
It is mostly spoken in Gascony and Béarn in southwestern France -LRB- in parts of the following French départements : Pyrénées-Atlantiques , Hautes-Pyrénées , Landes , Gers , Gironde , Lot-et-Garonne , Haute-Garonne , and Ariège -RRB- and in the Aran Valley of Catalonia.