Claim: There is a Western Romance Language called Gascon.

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 . It has about 250,000 speakers worldwide .   Aranese , a southern Gascon variety , is spoken in Catalonia and has been greatly influenced recently by Catalan and Spanish . Both these influences tend to differentiate it more and more from the dialects of Gascon spoken in France . Since the 2006 adoption of the new statute of Catalonia , Aranese is co-official with Catalan and Spanish in Catalonia -LRB- before , this status was valid for the Aran Valley only -RRB- .