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Sep 13 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Some things about me:
I am 30 years old and I was born in Lleida, Catalonia. I am a native Catalan speaker.
How did I get to know Occitan? It was one of the subjects in my degree in Catalan Language and Literature. I chose it, it FASCINATED me, and I decided to specialise in it.
In my hometown, Lleida, where I live, #Occitan isn't spoken. It is spoken in Val d'Aran, a mountain Valley north of Catalonia which has a specific autonomy & status.
The language is called 'aranés' there.
#Aranés has OFFICIAL status in Catalonia together with Catalan & Spanish.
I am a nerd of European endangered languages, I used to live in Sardinia, where I carried out a volunteering at @PapirosLibros, faeddu unu pagu de sardu.
I also love communicating with human beings, I am a dancer & I believe the arts are another language, the language of the soul
More things tomorrow!

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