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Occitan's greatest decline occurred during the French Revolution, in which diversity of language was considered a threat. In 1903, the four Gospels ( "Lis Evangèli", i.e. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) were translated into Provençal as spoken in Cannes and Grasse.
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Jul 15, 2024 · Occitan language, 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.
- Occitan Language: Introduction
- Basic Words and Phrases
- How Many People Speak Occitan
- Where Is Occitania?
- Occitan Language, Ep. 1: from Rome I Come, Here I Stay
- Occitan Language, Ep. 2: The Troubadours
- Occitan Language, Ep 3: Decline in The Modern Age
- Occitan Language, Ep. 4: The Turn of The Tide in The 20th Century
- Conclusions on Occitan
Below, please find a few things that were mentioned to me when I brought up that I was considering writing about the Occitan language: 1. Occitan? That stuff we read in literature class about minstrels? 2. Occi-tan language like… language of Occi-dent? 3. Occitan…. err, what? 4. It’s been a long time since you’ve written about anything useful on yo...
Here is a very small collection, the fruit of my readings and travels, without claiming to be exhaustive. As we will see later, the Occitan language is characterised by a great internal variety: if you come from an Occitan-speaking areaor know another way of expressing a similar thing, I would be grateful if you could leave me a note in the comment...
This is a difficult estimation to make for any language, even more so in the case of a one whose past is as erratic as that of Occitan. Estimates range from two hundred thousand people to nine million. It depends on who is measuring and how: if for whatever reason someone wants to show off their muscles, or if they prefer to downplay the Occitan ph...
Cool colourful contemporary maps can be found everywhere, so enjoy this 1963’s one: The langue d’oc is on this map referred to as an ethnic language, alongside Breton, Basqueand Catalan: in other words, languages that are recognised, if at all, only in part by their respective states, because the peoples who speak them are not constituted as specif...
How did Occitan come to be, in the words of some of its advocates, the most widespread unofficial language in the European Union? We should start with the dense prehistory of Occitania. I won’t bother you any more than necessary, just a few facts. It’s easier to understand certain historical phenomena if we take a look at a physical map of France: ...
Surely you’ve been pestered at school with troubadours, those minstrels in costume… ahem, I mean: 1. Dressed up in curious garb, 2. playing stringed instruments, 3. prancing around the European courts or the squares of medieval cities, 4. or even accompanying crusaders, 5. while reciting works in their own handwritingor borrowed from fellow musicia...
The Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts of 1539 is the first blow: through this edict, the d’oïl-speaking community took the lead over the others in France, which were quickly minorized. Earlier, when the administration worked with documents in Latin, in France each region and people were at an equal disadvantage: not any more. The waves of repression t...
At the beginning of the 20th century, the situation was already an ICU one: such fate was shared with the other indigenous languages of France. For centuries, the Occitan language had been absent from public administration and reviled in literature. As if that were not enough, the new compulsory schooling was fulfilling France’s mission to make its...
That’s all for today about the Occitan language. I have tried to condense in this first entry what I have learned about this epic ride that is the history of this interesting and mysterious language. Ever heard of la lenga nòstrabefore? Thank you for the time taken to read this. A lèu! Your personal occitanist, Fabio
Sep 11, 2018 · Although many people have not heard of Occitan, also known as Langue d’Oc, it’s one of several Romance languages that evolved from vernacular Latin, and is still spoken in six major dialects...
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Sep 25, 2023 · Occitan was spoken in southern France long before modern French arrived. Also called lenga d'òc (or langue d’oc in French), Occitan is a Romance language related to French, Spanish, and especially Catalan.
Oct 3, 2022 · Find out the history of the Occitan language, its origin in southern Europe, famous dialects like Provençale, and why it is endangered today.
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.
