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Landes (other)
''Landes'', or ''Lanas'' in Gascon language, Gascon, means moorland or heath (habitat), heath. ''Landes'' and ''Lanas'' come from the Latin ''plānus'' meaning “‘flat, even, level, plain’”. They are therefore cognate with the English plain (and plane (geometry), plane), the Spanish word ''Plain, llanos'' and the Italian word ''piano''. Places *Landes (department), a department of France *Landes forest or Landes of Gascony, a natural region in the southwest of France *Landes, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the Charente-Maritime département *Landes, West Virginia, United States *Landes-sur-Ajon *Saint-Hilaire-des-Landes, Brittany *Rion-des-Landes *Centre d'Essais des Landes, launch site for testing military rockets Other uses *Landes (surname) See also * Cantons of the Landes department * Arrondissements of the Landes department * Communes of the Landes department * Saint-Sulpice-des-Landes (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gascon Language
Gascon (; , ) is the name of the vernacular Romance languages, Romance variety spoken mainly in the region of Gascony, France. It is often considered a variety (linguistics), variety of Occitan language, Occitan, although some authors consider it a different language.Cf. Gerhard Rohlfs, Rohlfs, Gerhard. 1970. ''Le Gascon. Études de philologie pyrénéenne'', 2e éd. Tubingen, Max Niemeyer, & Pau, Marrimpouey jeune. Gascon is mostly spoken in Gascony and Béarn (Béarnese dialect) in southwestern France (in parts of the following French ''départements'': Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées, Landes (department), Landes, Gers, Gironde, Lot-et-Garonne, Haute-Garonne, and Ariège (department), Ariège) and in the Val d'Aran of Catalonia. Aranese language, Aranese, a southern Gascon variety, is spoken in Catalonia alongside Catalan language, Catalan and Spanish. Most people in the region are trilingual in all three languages, causing some influence from Spanish and Catalan. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
