This tense is quite unique among Romance languages, only shared with some Gascon and Aragonese (Benasque, Gistaín) dialects, and it seems to have existed in Catalan at least since the 13th century.
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(Other dialectal forms do exist, among them characteristic forms of minor extreme dialects like Ribagorçan or Algherese, or transitional forms between major dialects, like the ones used in the lower Ebre basin area around Tortosa or in the Empordà).
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