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- Occitan (English: / ˈ ɒ k s ɪ t ən,-t æ n,-t ɑː n /; Occitan: occitan, French: ), also known as lenga d'òc (Occitan: [ˈleŋɡɔ ˈðɔ(k)] ; French: langue d'oc) by its native speakers, is a Romance language (or branch of numerous of these) spoken in Southern France, Monaco, Italy's Occitan Valleys, as well as Spain's Val d'Aran; collectively, these regions are sometimes referred to as Occitania.en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occitan_language
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Occitan , also known as lenga d'òc (Occitan: [ˈleŋɡɔ ˈðɔ(k)] (listen); French: langue d'oc) by its native speakers, and sometimes also referred to as Provençal, is a Romance language spoken in Southern France, Monaco, Italy's Occitan Valleys, as well as Spain's Val d'Aran; collectively, these
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The name Occitan comes from the term lenga d'òc ("language of òc"), òc being the Occitan word for yes. While the term would have been in use orally for some time after the decline of...
See moreUsage in France
Though it was still an everyday language for most of the rural population of southern France well into...
See moreStandardization
All regional varieties of the Occitan language have a written form; thus, Occitan can be considered...
See moreIn the modern era, Occitan has become a rare and highly threatened language. Its users are clustered almost exclusively in Southern France, and it is
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See moreOne of the oldest written fragments of the language found dates back to 960, in an official text that was mixed with Latin:
De ista hora in antea non DECEBRÀ Ermengaus filius Eldiarda Froterio episcopo filio Girberga NE Raimundo filio Bernardo vicecomite de...
See moreOccitan is fundamentally defined by its dialects, rather than being a unitary language. That point is very conflictual in Southern France, as many
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See moreJules Ronjat has sought to characterize Occitan with 19 principal, generalizable criteria. Of those, 11 are phonetic, five morphologic, one syntactic, and two lexical. For example, close
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