The Sound of the Occitan language (Numbers, Greetings & The Wren)

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Occitan (occitan, lenga d'òc, provençal)
Native to: France, Spain, Italy, Monaco
Ethnicity: Occitans
Native speakers: estimates range from 100,000 to 800,000 (2007–2012)
Language family: Indo-European (Romance)
Early form: Old Occitan
Dialects: Auvergnat, Gascon (including Aranese dialect), Languedocien, Limousin, Provençal, Vivaro-Alpine, Judeo-Occitan †
ISO 639-1 oc, 639-2 oci, 639-3 oci – inclusive code
Individual code:
sdt – Judeo-Occitan
Glottolog occi1239
Linguasphere 51-AAA-g & 51-AAA-f

Occitan is a Romance language spoken mainly in southern France, and also in Monaco, in the Aran Valley (Val d'Aran) in northern Spain, and in the Occitan Valleys (Valadas Occitanas) in Italy. There are perhaps 1.5 million people who speak Occitan in their daily lives, while 5 or 6 million people are able to speak the language. The majority of speakers are elderly and live in rural areas. There are six dialects of Occitan: Provençal, Gascon, Languedocien, Limousin, Alpine and Auvergne.

Occitan first began to appear in writing during the 10th century and was used particularly to write the poetry of the troubdours. The troubadours performed their poetry of love, satire and war in the courts of kings and nobles all over France, Spain and other countries in Europe.

When France became a unified country in the 15th century, the language of the French court, langue d'oïl, was favoured over Occitan and other regional languages, which went into decline. Langue d'oïl developed into modern French.

A revival in interest in Occitan started during the 19th century, largely thanks to poet, Frédéric Mistral (1830-1914), who wrote the much-admired long poem Mireiò and worked to standardise written Occitan. Mistral was adwarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1904.

Links
Information about Occitan







Occitan courses and lessons




Online Occitan dictionaries



Online radio in Occitan



Online news in Occitan


L'association Convergéncia occitana


Information about the use of Occitan in education (en français)

Schema_Departemental_Occitan.pdf

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