Occitan (English: / ˈ ɒ k s ɪ ˌ t æ n /; French pronunciation: [ɔk.si'tɑ̃]; Occitan: ), known also as lenga d'òc by its native speakers (Occitan: [ˈleŋɡɔ ˈðɔ(k)]; French: langue d'oc), 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 sometimes known unofficially as Occitania. The couples parted and formed a large circle, and people of all ages joined in, holding hands and taking me with them. Many older adults in the Dordogne still tell stories about being humiliated in school for speaking Occitan.The Dordogne region is rich with rivers that have deeply carved the soft and gold-toned limestone into caves and cliffs, fertile valleys and hilltop plateaus.
2) The French state created a new administrative region in 2016 called Occitania, marking the first time since the Middle Ages that a political entity has been given the name of France’s historically Occitan-speaking region.In order to examine the impact of these shifts on Occitan revitalization efforts, we will study three dimensions of local community engagement with contemporary language revival in Southern France: 1) the motivations and beliefs of Occitan language teachers and parents who seek to raise their children through Occitan, 2) how and why business owners engage with Occitan in their commercial lives, 3) the differing positioning of native speakers and language learners on these efforts. “Andrea, my grand aunt's maid used to call me Mollaret went further, explaining that the language is intrinsically tied to Périgord culture and how Occitan intimately describes aspects of life here, details that are lost if expressed in French or that simply do not have French words.“[Occitan] is really linked to the land, to the farm, to the traditions and legends,” she said. Also in these languages, this is the common word for the daisy flower (species Bellis perennis, Leucanthemum vulgare and others). They described growing up cultivating and producing all that their family needed to eat; how to hunt for cepes (porcini); the medieval pilgrimage route that passes through their region toward Santiago de Compostela; gathering and selling truffles at Christmas; and colourful folkloric characters, the most memorable being the lébérou, Périgord’s version of a werewolf-like creature.I learned that Occitan was once the lingua franca of the south of France, and is best known as the language in which the troubadours sang. I learned that Occitan was once the lingua franca of the south of France, and is best known as the language in which the troubadours sang. “Some things concerning the animals, the plants, are only known in the former language. In the Dordogne, “I like very much the poetry of some special words that others cannot understand, from one region to another one,” she continued. On one hand, one considers the existence of a linguistic unity around one language, Occitan, whose dialects would be Languedocien, Limousin, Provençal, etc. This project will seek to understand how recent shifts in the strategies, discourses, and political context of the Occitan language revival movement have impacted contemporary efforts to revitalize the language in Southern France. MARGARIDA f Portuguese, Galician, Catalan, Occitan Portuguese, Galician, Catalan and Occitan form of MARGARET. First of all, Occitan and Provençal are the same language but they're spelled differently and have their dialectal differences. “Just by travelling from the Dordogne to the Lot, very few kilometres, sometimes I discover different expressions, different ways of calling the same bird or the same tree, and I like the way everyone is trying to catch the reality in his own way.”This intimate and detail-oriented relationship between language and land was reinforced on the many solo countryside walks that I love to make when I visit, which has been nearly every year since I first came nine years ago.Once I met a man standing among his grapevines, whispering Occitan incantations of encouragement to them to grow and thrive – his eyes closed, his fingers brushing their leaves, his palms facing the sky – an effort that he later explained to me was as important as rain, soil and pruning. Graham Robb, in his historical geography, But a little more than 100 years ago at the turn of the 20th Century, the central government launched an aggressive campaign to extinguish any language that was not the standardised French. As I was woven seamlessly into the circle, I felt the true depth of this culture and the reason why it and its language persists.