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Occitan speakers


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    • Auvergnat speakers
    • Gascon speakers
    • Langue d'oc speakers
    • Languedocien speakers
    • Lemosin speakers
    • Lenga d'òc speakers
    • Lengadocian speakers
    • Limousin speakers
    • Prouvençau speakers
    • Provençal speakers
    • Provençau speakers
    • Speakers of Auvergnat
    • Speakers of Gascon
    • Speakers of Langue d'oc
    • Speakers of Languedocien
    • Speakers of Lemosin
    • Speakers of Lenga d'òc
    • Speakers of Lengadocian
    • Speakers of Limousin
    • Speakers of Occitan
    • Speakers of Prouvençau
    • Speakers of Provençal
    • Speakers of Provençau
  • Sources

    • found: Work cat.: Lagarde, André. Dictionnaire occitan-français, français-occitan, 1996(Occitan-French, French-Occitan dictionary) (OCoLC)36107142
    • found: Lexic elementari occitan-francés, français-occitan selon les parlers languedociens, 1996:(title translates to: Occitan-French, French-Occitan elementary lexicon according to Languedoc dialects) half-title (Lexique élémentaire occitan-français) (OCoLC)38387159
    • found: Wikipedia, Sept. 17, 2022:Occitan (Occitan (Occitan: occitan), also known as lenga d'òc (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 regions are sometimes referred to as Occitània. It is also spoken in Southern Italy (Calabria) in a linguistic enclave of Cosenza area (mostly Guardia Piemontese); Across history, the terms Limousin (Lemosin), Languedocien (Lengadocian), Gascon, and later Provençal (Provençal: Provençau or Prouvençau) have been used as synonyms for the whole of Occitan; nowadays, "Provençal" is understood mainly as the Occitan dialect spoken in Provence, in southeast France) Provençal (Provençal (French: provençal; Occitan: provençau or prouvençau) is a Romance language, either considered as a variety of Occitan or a separate language, spoken by people in Provence and parts of Drôme. Historically, the term Provençal has been used to refer to the whole of the Occitan language, but today it is considered more technically appropriate to refer only to the variety of Occitan spoken in Provence)
    • found: Britannica online, Sept. 17, 2022(Occitan language, also called Languedoc, modern name given by linguists to a group of dialects that form a Romance language that was spoken in the early 21st century by about 1,500,000 people in southern France, though many estimates range as low as one-third that number; The name Occitan is derived from the old geographical name Occitanie of the area now known as Languedoc; In the area itself, the names Lemosí (Limousin) and Proensal (Provençal) were formerly used, but those names were too localized to designate the whole range of dialects. The name Provençal originally referred to the Occitan dialects of the Provence region and is used also to refer to the standardized medieval literary language and still-vigorous literary movement based on the dialect of Provence. Because of that long literary tradition, many in the Provence region still prefer to call their language Provençal; The main dialect areas are Limousin, in the northwest corner of the Occitan area; Auvergnat, in the north-central region of this area; northeastern Alpine-Provençal; and Languedoc and Provençal, on the west and east of the Mediterranean seacoast, respectively. Gascon, in the southwest of France, is usually classified as an Occitan dialect, though to most other southerners it is today less readily comprehensible than Catalan)
    • found: Òc-ben : première année d'occitan, 2003(first-year textbook of Occitan) t.p. ("Gascon. Lengadocian. Lemosin. Provençau") (OCoLC)930924297
    • found: Coupier, Jules. Dictionnaire français-provençal = Diciounàri francés-prouvençau, 1995.(OCoLC)35033856
    • found: Decomps, Dominique. L'occitan redde e ben : lo lemosín = L'occitan vite et bien : le limousin, ©1979:(a textbook for students of the Limousin dialect of Occitan) added t.p. (L'occitan selon le parler limousin [Occitan according to the Limousin dialect])
    • found: Quint, Nicolas. Le languedocien de poche : occitan central, ©2007.(OCoLC)218203733
    • found: Fabre d'Olivet, Antoine. La langue d'oc rétablie dans ses principes, 1989.(OCoLC)22067585
    • found: Reichel, Karl-Heinz. Grand dictionnaire général auvergnat-français, 2005(Auvergnat dialect of Occitan-French dictionary) (OCoLC)62533581
    • found: LCSH, Sept. 17, 2022(Occitan language. UF Langue d'oc; Languedoc language; Provençal language, Modern. BT France--Languages; Romance languages. SN Here are entered works about the speech or dialects of the Midi (the South) of France after 1500. Works about the language of that region before 1500 are entered under the heading Provençal language)
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    • [Established January 2023.]
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    • 2022-09-17: new
    • 2023-01-25: revised
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