Pyrenees Guide

Catalan - Catalan is one of the Romance languages spoken in Spain, with its earliest literary text, the Homilies d'Organya, dating back to about the middle of 12th century. In the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries, Catalan literature flourished, first under the influence of Provençal literature and later ...

Euskera - The Euskera, or the Basque language, is spoken in the northern central area of Spain (where the Pyrennes meet the Cantabrian Sea) and it is nowadays written with Latin alphabet. There are about 600,000 speakers in the north of Spain, the entire province of Guipuzcoa, in addition to the ...

French - French is the native language of 70 million people and the second language for 180 to 220 million. Standard French is based on the dialect of Paris called "francien", which is the official language since the XVI Century and made disappear, or at least almost disappear, most of the other ...