langsandlit: What is Occitan?Occitan is a Romance minority language closely related to Catalan
langsandlit: What is Occitan?Occitan is a Romance minority language closely related to Catalan spoken across four sovereign states: Southern France, Spain, Italy and Monaco. Although it has never been legally recognised as a political entity, this area is historically known as Occitania. Occitan is called both occitan and lenga d’òc by its native speakers, and it is currently split into six main varieties (or dialects):Gascon, which includes Bearnese and Aranese, spoken in France and Spain respectivelyLanguedocien (spoken in France)Limousin (France)Auvergnat (France)Provençal, which includes Nissart, spoken in Nice, FranceVivaro-Alpine (Occitan Valleys and Guardia Piemontese, Calabria, Italy)It should be noted that, because Catalan has a high degree of mutual intelligibility with Occitan, it was considered a dialect of Occitan until the 19th century. At any rate, the two languages are sometimes grouped together in the Occitano-Romance subgroup of Romance languages.Occitan resourcesOccitanStandard Occitan grammar (in Occitan)Occitan orthography (in Occitan)Descriptive Occitan grammar (in English)Occitan sense peine (in French)Brief Occitan grammar (in French)Occitan for beginners (in Italian)Introduction to Occitan grammar (in Catalan)Introduction to Occitan literature (in Catalan)Online Occitan course (Vivaro-Alpine variety) (in Occitan and Italian)Occitan literature from the Occitan Valleys (in Occitan and Italian)Occitan-Catalan dictionaryProvençalModern Provençal: Part 1 (in English)Modern Provençal: Part 2Modern Provençal: Part 3Modern Provençal: Part 4Basic grammar & common phrases (in French)Nissart classes by Doc Tiblon (Youtube channel in French and Nissart subs)Aranese (Gascon subdialect, official in Catalonia)Standard basic Aranese grammar (in Aranese)Basic dictionary (in Aranese)Phonetic dictionary (in Aranese)Orthographic dictionary (in Aranese)Aranese verbs (in Aranese)Famous literary works translated into AraneseAranese and General Occitan - Four studies (in Occitan)Online official Aranese course (in Aranese)Conselh Generau d’AranOnline dictates of different levelsInstitut d’estudis aranesiAranese TVAranese-Catalan / Aranese-Spanish dictionary -- source link
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