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The use of the name Béarnais is based not on pure linguistics but on the fact that it is an autoglossonym whose identity is deeply rooted in a distant and prestigious past. On the other hand, the use of the term Gascon, which is applied to a wide variety of romance varieties spoken in the southwest ofFrance (including the Béarn), is justified by internal linguistic criteria. In the Gascon-speaking region, the number of speakers, at all levels, varies from 3% in Bordeaux to 35% in the Hautes-Pyrénées. That means more than 500,000 people in total. But the future of the language is uncertainbecause family transmission has diminished since World War II, even in rural areas, and is now very rare. Furthermore, Béarnais and Gascon are taught to only a little over 1% of school children, so there are now few expert and active speakers under the age of fifty. The language is spoken onlyin closed networks, usually made up of older people, who are very emotionally attached to their language, but few of whom make it an ideological issue or are preoccupied by its future. (résumé auteur)https://www.bilketa.eus/ark:/27020/go736431Moreux, Bernard (....-....)International Journal of the Sociology of LanguageIKER, ART 306.442004textmonographie impriméeprinted monograph25–62vignette : https://www.bilketa.eus/in/rest/Thumb/image?id=ark:/27020/go736431&mat=bookengMouton (The Hague)béarnais (dialecte)bilinguisme -- sud-ouestgascon (langue)linguistique historiquesociolinguistiqueBéarnais and Gascon today : language behavior and perception