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Argonese Dialects
The Aragonese language has local varieties, grouped by valley locations, or various comarca varieties. It is generally dispersed and isolated between the different varieties. The term dialect is ambiguous and can be used to refer to well-known valley variants, such as cheso or ansotano. Argonese speakers can be classified into four groups or main dialects provided by Francho Nagore(Western, Central, Eastern, and Southern Aragonese). There is a lack of clear linguistic references and a multisecular diglossia structure that has favored the lack of unitary awareness among Aragonese speakers and, in areas where the dialect has been best preserved, Aragonese speakers often use local dialects.

The Four Dialects
The most accepted form of dialectical classification is by Francho Nagore, who classified Argonese speakers into 4 groups:


 * Western Aragonese


 * Central Aragonese


 * Eastern Aragonese


 * Southern Aragonese

For some, these groups are considered complex dialects and the speakers of these dialects (like the cheso, the chistabino...) would be regional variants. For others, the four groups are the constituent dialects of the Aragonese language and the variants that they include would be subdialects, spoken locally or regionally.

Others
Although the proposal of the four dialects is the most widespread, other authors have proposed variations. So, for Chusé Raúl Usón and Chabier Tomás, there would be three historical dialects that correspond more or less to the three old Pyrenean counties.


 * Western Dialect: County of Aragón


 * Central Dialect: County of Sobrarbe


 * Eastern Dialect: County of Ribagorza

The author Fernando Sánchez proposed a classification that posits the existence of two great variants/dialects: the Western and the Eastern. These would also have more extreme subvarients:


 * Within the Western: The Ansotano (and in some ways, the Cheso and the Ayerbense), with extreme Western characteristics, related to the ancient Navarrese romance.
 * Within the Eastern: The Ribagorzano, with many translations close to Catalan.

Eastern Aragonese
Some minority sectors, especially the sectors represented by the FACAO, want to include the variety of Catalan spoken in the Franja as Eastern Aragonese.

Valleys and Somontano
There are different degrees of similarities between variants:

Axial Pyrenees Valleys:
The topography in the form of well-separated valleys has caused the Aragonese language to have evolved into a dialect or locally spoken language in each valley:

Western and Eastern Poles
There is a distribution of differences between the East and the West, with boundaries that do not coincide, but some that appear mainly from Broto and Cotefablo to the Ribagorza and further, and others that are seen mainly from Tena and Cotefablo to Navarre.