In 2008, the Generalitat of Catalonia surveyed the population (15 years old or older) in the Val d'Aran.
Once considered to be an endangered language[REF] spoken mainly by older people, it is now experiencing a renaissance; it enjoys co-official status with Catalan and Spanish within Val d'Aran, and since 1984 has been taught bilingually alongside Castilian in schools [REF].