Occitan (occitan, lenga d'òc) is a Romance leid, spak an unnerstuid bi as mony as 0.5 million fowk in soothren Fraunce, Monaco, Catalonie's Val d'Aran, an the Occitan Valleys o Italy. Th'gither thae regions are sometimes referrit tae as Occitania. The leid is still spak in the linguistic exclave o Guardia Piemontese in Calabrie, Italy, an historically in a number o communities in the Americas: Valdese, North Carolina;[8][9] Quebec; Pigüé, Argentinae; an Guanajuato, Mexico. It is a co-offeecial leid o the Spaingie autonomous community o Catalonie.
Quick Facts Native tae, Ethnicity ...
| Occitan |
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| occitan, lenga d'òc, provençal |
| Native tae | Fraunce, Spain, Italy, Monaco |
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| Ethnicity | Occitans |
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Native speakers | estimates range frae 100,000 tae 800,000 (2007–2012)[1][2] |
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Early form | |
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| Dialects |
- Auvergnat
- Gascon (includin Aranese dialect)
- Languedocien
- Limousin
- Provençal
- Vivaro-Alpine
- Judeo-Occitan †
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| Offeecial status |
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Offeecial leid in | Catalonie |
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Recognised minority
leid in | |
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| Regulatit bi | Conselh de la Lenga Occitana;[4] Congrès Permanent de la Lenga Occitana;[5] Institut d'Estudis Aranesi[6] |
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| Leid codes |
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| ISO 639-1 | oc |
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| ISO 639-2 | oci |
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| ISO 639-3 | oci – inclusive code
Individual code:
sdt – Judeo-Occitan |
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| Glottolog | occi1239[7] |
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| Linguasphere | 51-AAA-g & 51-AAA-f |
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 Various dialects of Occitan
Auvergnat Limousin Vivaro-Alpine Provençal Niçard Lengadocian Gascon |
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