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	Occitan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Occitan is a Romance language spoken in the southern third of France, used by about one-fourth of the French population.
		Occitan developed an eminent literature in the 11th to 15th centuries, including the poems of the troubadours.
		Occitan is very similar to Catalan and in fact, many scientists think Occitan and Catalan should be regarded as different dialects of the same Catalo-Occitan language.
	www.flw.com /languages/occitan.htm (88 words)

	Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Occitan language - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Occitan, or langue d'oc is a Romance language spoken across the southern third of France (to the south of the Loire), as well as in some of the Alpine valleys in Italy and in the Val d'Aran in Spain.
		Occitan was the vehicle for the first vernacular poetry of medieval Europe, that of the troubadors.
		Almost all serious linguists and occitan writers disagree strongly with the view that Occitan is a family of languages and think that Limousin, Auvergnat, Alpin, Gascon, Languedocien and Provençal are dialects of a single language.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/oc/Occitan_language (381 words)

	Occitan on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Occitan is a region that emcompasses southern France, (PAR212658)
		Occitan is a region that emcompasses southern France, (PAR212659)
		Un jeune homme porte un drapeau occitan au milieu des participants du rassemblement "Avec ce rassemblement, nous faisons a.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/O/Occitan.asp (784 words)

	Occitan Language
		The modern dialects of Occitan are little changed from the speech of the Middle Ages, although they are being affected by their constant exposure to French.
		Occitan is closely related to Catalan, and, although strongly influenced in the recent past by French, its phonology and grammar are more closely related to Spanish than to French.
		Occitan was no longer a literary language, but it was used to write the deeds, the accounts, the chronicles and the resolutions of local communities.
	www.orbilat.com /Languages/Occitan/Occitan.html (1505 words)

	Meractor Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Occitan is a Romance Language from the same Indo-European branch as Italian, Catalan and Rumanian.
		According to estimates, about 1.5 million people speak Occitan in their daily lives, and between five and six million are able to speak the language.
		Occitan has a very minor position in the deucational system, it's taught in school as a foreign language.
	www.aber.ac.uk /~merwww/english/lang/occitan.htm (469 words)

	Occitan language, alphabet and pronunciation
		Occitan is a Romance language spoken mainly in southern France and also in Italy and Spain.
		Occitan first began to appear in writing during the 10th century and was used particularly to write the poetry of the troubdours.
		In the Occitan-speaking part of Spain, the Aran Valley, Occitan has co-official status with Spanish and Catalan and is used in official documents, on road signs and as a medium of instruction in schools.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/occitan.htm (534 words)

	Occitan in France
		Support of Occitan in the educational system is provided by commissions for regional languages and cultures, such as the Regional Centre for Pedagogical Documentation in Toulouse, and by a range of private institutions, such as publishers and cultural organisations.
		In the Occitan area (omitting the académie of Limoges, for which statistics are not known) there are 1,350 public schools for lower secondary education catering for 706,760 pupils and 510 private schools serving 150,160 pupils.
		Occitan is offered as an optional subject at 60% of the schools for upper secondary education (lycées) in the académies of Bordeaux, Montpellier, Nice and Toulouse, involving 3,200 pupils.
	www1.fa.knaw.nl /mercator/regionale_dossiers/regional_dossier_occitan_in_france.htm (5794 words)

	Occitan
		Occitan is sometimes represented as a dialect of French, or even as a corrupt form of French - a patois.
		Occitan was the first literary language of modern Europe, the language of the Troubadours.
		The Occitan legacy of the Troubadours constitutes one of the greatest literary treasures of Europe.
	www.languedoc-france.info /1903_occitan.htm (409 words)

	Languedoc-Roussillon
		The Occitan language continues to be widely spoken around Nîmes and Uzès and in Haute-Loire and Ardèche.
		The Occitan Language, which is also called Languedoc or Provençal, is a Romance language spoken by about 1,500,000 people in the south of France.
		Although Occitan speakers use French as their official and cultural language, Occitan dialects are used for everyday purposes and show no signs of extinction.
	www.french-at-a-touch.com /French_Regions/Languedoc-Roussillon/languedoc-roussillon_11.htm (2777 words)

	Lo domègeografic de l'occitan.
		Occitan is spoken on a territory which corresponds roughly to the southern third of France.
		With Catalan, the limit goes between the Occitan Val d'Aran (in Spain) and the comarques of Ribagorça and Pallars Sobiran (catalan).
		Probably the Basque local population converted to Occitan as did the whole population of Gascony.
	occitanet.free.fr /en/geodom.htm (461 words)

	Occitan language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The name Occitan comes from ''oc'', the Middle Agesmedieval Occitan word for ''yes'', as opposed to northern French or ''langue d'oïl/'' (the ancestor of the modern French ''oui'').
		In the Val d'Aran, a valley in the north of Catalonia (in north-eastern Spanish State), Aranese languageAranese (a dialect of Occitan) is treated as an official language, together with Catalan languageCatalan and Spanish languageSpanish.
		There are two orthographyorthographies/ currently used for Occitan, one (known as ''classical'') which is based on that of Mediaeval Occitan, and one (sometimes known as ''mistralian'', due to its use by the Felibres, including Mistral) which is based on modern French orthography.
	www.infothis.com /find/Occitan_language (2133 words)

	Occitan language quizz
		Occitan is spoken from Champagne-Mouton to Nice (about 34 'departements'), a few alpine valleys in Italy and the Val d'Aran in the Spanish state...
		Occitan is studied in American, German, Japanese universities...
		One should be proud of speaking Occitan, of learning how to speak it, to write it because the Occitan language must not die...
	ujan.chez.tiscali.fr /patengl.htm (140 words)

	Encyclopedia article on Occitan language [EncycloZine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It must be noted that that the use of the name "Occitan" and the idea that it represents a single language is controversial.
		The Mentonasque language is a blend of Occitan (Provençal) and Ligure.
		In the Val d'Aran, a valley in the north of Catalonia (in north-eastern Spanish), Aranese (a dialect of Occitan) is treated as an official language, together with Catalan and Spanish.
	encyclozine.com /Occitan_language (1688 words)

	Occitan, Language, patois, or dialect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Those regional variations of a language are often called dialects”;, for instance in Occitan it refers to the traditional dialects (Lengadocian, Gavòt, Provençau o Gascon), or in French to the Berrichon, or the language of the region of la Loire.
		Find an Occitan native-speaker and, if he is not one of your acquaintances, say to him “Adieu” : his answer (of course not cordial) will be “Que vòl aquel ?” (what does this guy want ?); or he would answer in French, and even not at all.
		Join us in the Occitans Medias, discover, and be an actor of this magnificent culture with 10 centuries of history, and brilliant future before it.
	www.dobl-oc.com /Engles/Occitan/D222Occitan_en.htm (975 words)

	Search: Occitan - Info.co.uk
		Occitan dialects (mainly in France, but also small areas of Italy and Spain), from the University of...
		Occitan first began to appear in writing during the 10th century and was used...
		Occitan language: Our language is mainly spoken in France where it is not officialized in spite of a huge number of claims from its speakers.
	dpxml.infospace.com /infocom.uk/results?otmpl=dog/webresults.htm&qkw=Occitan&CMP=KNC-3LS480536328&infoad=1 (321 words)

	Occitan language - Unipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Occitan, or langue d'oc is a Romance language characterized by its richness and variability, and by the mutual intelligibility of its dialects.
		Scholars dispute whether Occitan constitutes a single language, and some characterize the langues d'oc as a family of distinct languages rather than dialects.
		Aquitaine — excluding the Basque speaking part of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the western part of the department and a small part of Gironde where Saintongeais is spoken.
	www.unipedia.info /Oc.html (2641 words)

	Occitan
		Romance languages - Romance languages, group of languages belonging to the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family...
		Occitan is a region that emcompasses southern France, (PAR212658) (Magnum Photos)
		Occitan poet and writer Bernard MANCIET and the French jazz musician Bernard LUBAT (piano, drums, (PAR212661) (Magnum Photos)
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0836313.html (392 words)

	Occitan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Occitan is a Romance language intermediate between French and Spanish, which is spoken in several départements in France, south of the river Loire.
		For long years Ukrainian was regarded as the "Little Russian dialect of Russian," and the Soviet authorities did not permit the manufacture of typewriters with a keyboard representing the Ukrainian alphabet, which is slightly different from Russian.
		Since the Occitan speaking lands are not independent, their language is generally regarded as a French dialect, despite its long literary history going back to the troubadors.
	www.uwm.edu /~corre/franca/edition3/discussion.html (331 words)

	Easy Occitan-L'Occitan fàcil
		Nowadays Occitan is spoken, above all in France, by speakers who are often ashamed of speaking their own language because of french educational system.
		This accent is caused by the Occitan substratum.
		Moreover, because of its roots, Occitan can be an excellent bridge to those who want to learn easily Spanish, Catalan, Italian, French or Portuguese.
	perso.wanadoo.fr /babel-site/occitan.html (969 words)

	Occitan Community's Journal
		The Occitan language was used practically from the late Roman/Wisigoth invasions on both sides of the Pyrennees.
		What is therefore needed is genuine official status for Occitan within the education system, coupled with efforts to enhance the general profile of the language.
		Essentially Occitan's roots in Italy are in an area that is suffering, and that Occitan is suffering because of it.
	www.livejournal.com /community/occitan (2760 words)

	Occitan_language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Some have claimed around 450,000 words exist in the Occitan language, a number comparable to English (The Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged with 1993 addenda reaches 470,000 words, as does the Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition.) The Merriam-Webster Web site estimates that the number is somewhere between 250,000 and 1 million words.
		For example, Occitan has 128 synonyms related to cultivated land, 62 for wetlands, and 75 for sunshine (G�o).
		Furthermore, Occitan's geography as a central Romance language facilitates comprehension of neighboring languages (Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.) Among languages in its family, Occitan has the most points in common with the others.
	q-basic.xodox.de /oc (2451 words)

	Occitan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Our language is mainly spoken in France where it is not officialized in spite of a huge number of claims from its speakers.
		Currently it is difficult to know its exact number of speakers but it's worth noting that Occitan was THE European language in the Middle Ages (remember the Trobadors).
		And here's a Mirabilis.ca blog entry about the Aquitaine sundial ring, which is how I came to be interested in Eleanor of Aquitaine (and hence, Occitan) in the first place.
	www.mirabilis.ca /archives/000265.html (214 words)

	Old Occitan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Most of my time is still devoted to Greek poetry, but from time to time I like go back to the Occitan material to try to move a little bit further in my studies.
		I've consulted two books for the formal grammatical matters and examples but I also pick examples from Occitan texts myself, whether from one of these books or from the web.
		Beginners marveling at the flourishing alternate forms for declensions, conjugations and spelling should keep in mind that the term "Old Occitan" covers about 400 years of a language used over a wide area.
	chopin.co-prosperity.org /~annis/occitan (307 words)

	Occitan Translation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Occitan Spanish translator, Occitan to Spanish translation project, Spanish translator, business/marketing...
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	www.directtranslations.com /Occitan-translation.html (519 words)

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		Cal pas confondre occitan e occitanista: un occitanista es qualcun engatjat dins un movement de defensa o de manten de la lenga e/o de la cultura.
		D'autors occitans dels grands (l'abat Besson del Roergue, Felix Arnaudin de las Lanas) fagueron servir de grafias inspiradas del frances, mai fidelas al dialecte propre de l'autor que non pas a l'etimologia, e que, de cops, apelavan "foneticas".
		Conservatoire Occitan, 1 rue Jacques Darre, 31000 TOULOUSE.
	www.chez.com /occitanet/faq-oc.htm (1898 words)

	ER ARANÉS
		Er occitan ei constituït principaument per cinc grops dialectaus: lengadocian, lemosin, provençau, auvernhés e GASCON.
		Er airau lingüistic der occitan se place ena mitad sud der Estat Francés, en quauques vals italianes, e en estat Espanhòu, ena Val d'Aran.
		A nivèu generau tostemp i a agut produccion literaria en occitan, totun, ena Val d'Aran a estat escassa.
	www.aranweb.com /visita/lengua/lengua2.htm (378 words)

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