The Institute of Aranese Studies – Aranese Academy of the Occitan Language

The Institute of Aranese Studies-Aranese Academy of the Occitan Language, is an authority on the Occitan language in Catalonia. Created with the legitimate aim of upholding and promoting the Aranese variant of the Occitan language, its founding purpose embraces the fact that you cannot describe or protect a dialectal variant without clear and continuous reference to the standard language and its unity. This article describes the value of the institution, the process of its creation, its composition and powers, and its objectives.