Occitan language

OccitanOxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, 7th edition, 2005.Regional pronunciations: occitan = . is known as lenga d'òc by its native speakers. 

It is a Romance language spoken in the south of France, the Occitan Valleys of Italy, the Val d'Aran of Catalonia and Monaco. The regions together are called Occitania. This is an unofficial name for a region in three countries. Its justification is that it is united by a culture.

Occitan took a different path from Latin to the main official languages. It is sometimes called lenga d'òc ("language of oc", French: langue d'oc) because its word for yes is òc, as opposed to oil (oui) or sì in other languages. That is one way to classify Romance languages.

Occitan is an official language of Catalonia.As stated in its Statute of Autonomy approved. See Article 6.5 in the Parlament-cat.net , text of the 2006 Statute of Catalonia (PDF) Since September 2010, the Parliament of Catalonia has considered Aranese Occitan to be the officially preferred language for use in the Val d'Aran.

 Dialects 

 Alpine (also named Vivaro-Alpine or Provençal Alpine)
 Auvergnat
 Gascon (including Aranese spoken in Val d'Aran, Catalonia, Spain)
 Languedocien
 Limousin
 Provençal

Some of those names (Provençal, Limousin, Gascon) were once used for the whole language.

Sources

 Other websites 

 Dictionary (written in Occitan)
 Ethnologue report page for language with code OCI (Occitan)
 English-Occitan lexicon
 Orbilat.com , Overview and grammar of Occitan
 Occitanet.free.fr, a guide to the language
 Ostaldoccitania.net  The house of occitan associations of Toulouse 
 Eonet.ne , "LexRomEdic", Electronic version of Lexique Roman of Rainouard (A provisional version is available). 

Category:Romance languages
Category:Languages of France
Category:Languages of Italy
Category:Monaco
Category:Languages of Spain