Occitan leid

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.

Occitan
occitan, lenga d'òc, provençal
Native taeFraunce, Spain, Italy, Monaco
EthnicityOccitans
Native speakers
estimates range frae 100,000 tae 800,000 (2007–2012)[1][2]
Indo-European
Early form
Dialects
  • Auvergnat
  • Gascon (includin Aranese dialect)
  • Languedocien
  • Limousin
  • Provençal
  • Vivaro-Alpine
  • Judeo-Occitan †
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in
 Catalonie
Recognised minority
leid in
 Fraunce
 Italy (Law nummer 482 o 15 December 1999) [3]
Regulatit biConselh de la Lenga Occitana;[4] Congrès Permanent de la Lenga Occitana;[5] Institut d'Estudis Aranesi[6]
Leid codes
ISO 639-1oc
ISO 639-2oci
ISO 639-3oci – inclusive code
Individual code:
sdt – Judeo-Occitan
Glottologocci1239[7]
Linguasphere51-AAA-g & 51-AAA-f
Various dialects of Occitan
  Auvergnat
  Limousin
  Vivaro-Alpine
  Provençal
  Niçard
  Lengadocian
  Gascon

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