The most prominent of the languages of Spain is Spanish, which nearly everyone in Spain can speak as either first or second language. Other languages figure prominently in many regions:
* Basque in parts of the Basque Country and Navarre.
* Catalan in Catalonia, eastern Aragon, and the Balearic Islands and (in the same dialect continuum), as a variant of this, Valencian in the Valencian Community.
* Galician in Galicia (to some extent, it also forms a dialectal continuum with Portuguese).
* Aranese in the Pyrenean comarca of Val d'Aran, in north-western Catalonia. It is a variety of Gascon, which in turn is a variety of the Occitan language, but has its own standard version.
English is the most important foreign language and many young people understand and speak English.