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Originally Posted by Visigodo
I took the picture from Gimpera's book, the woman seems to be from Fraga (Huesca) where still there are catalan speaking people but really she do not look average catalan people.
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Ribargorça Oriental.
I drive pass that area at times. They use forms of Catalan which are pefectly identifiable as Valencian. I would say that even beyond the Catalan spoken in Lerida.
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Probably some "exotic" element or just that Gimpera took a gysy as pre-iberian exemple by mistake?
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From what I've observed, the type is most alien to the area.
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