FRENCH & OCCITAN (Langues d'oïl & Lenga d'òc)

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Back when France didn’t have a centralized school system, French was not a national language. Every region had its own dialect that we call « patois » in French. The two dialect groups were named after their respective words for yes, oc being the form of yes in the south and oïl (now oui) being used for yes in the north. Langue d'oc developed into Occitan and included Provençcal, a dialect that became the language of the troubadours in the south of France. Of the langue d'oïl dialects, that of the Paris region gradually supplanted all others as the standard idiom and developed into modern French. However, both langue d'oïl and langue d'oc dialects persisted in some rural areas as patois, or popular, provincial speech.

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[tibsky]

In Medieval times, Occitan was really a prestigious language. Considered as the language of the troubadours, notably under the influence of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Before the Langue d'Oïl took a progressive cultural ascendancy over the Lenguà d'Oc, in particular because of the Albigensian Crusades. Of course the population of the South continued to speak it until today, but it received a serious blow of pressure since the end of the 19th century, from where the danger of disappearance.

[ceohadenough]

Occitan is such an underrated language

[pyrenaea]

Occitan is not a dialect, but a language, and an extremely sweet one

[syldaviaball]

As an Occitan, I am proud of my beautiful language. Long live Castanet!

[anneonymous]

I speak some Spanish and Italian, and it's fascinating to me how Occitan sounds almost like a mix of French, Spanish, and Italian. I love it! 😀 😍 ❤ ♥ 💕 💓

[emiliojpdrive]

As a Italian speaker, I find French Occitan and Catalan as the most similar languages in grammar but in pronunciation it’s definitely both Catalan and Spanish

[jaimelf]

I speak Valencian, and I can basically understand everything in Occitan. Valencian/Catalan and Occitan are clearly part of a continuum.

[isabellenicaud]

I am 64, my grand parents spoke Limousin with my father and they also all spoke a perfect french Their home and heart langage was Limousin. Unfortunately, I can't speak patois. Listening to you, tears come to my eyes, this langage is almost dead as all my family. Thank you

[Alexander-srqm]

Beautiful languages! Love from Slovakia! 🇸🇰❤️🇫🇷

[rogersik]

I'm from Spain, Catalonia and I could read and understand everything written in occitan. The pronounciation reminded me like a mix of catalan and portuguese lol

[gabrielhazayt]

To me as pt-br speaker, occitan sounds like a french person speaking pt-pt with a strong accent.

[woori]

this is my first exposure to occitan, i find it similar sounding very much to Portuguese

[migkocando]

As Spanish Speaker I have to say that Occitan must be official in France

[giannid.]

In fact, before French became the official language of some regions and of the country in general, all regions of France had their own type of language and type of expression.

[beaumontjean]

Occitan resembles the pronunciation of old French... Very similar. Marchois is an oil/oc transition language that is perfectly understandable for a French speaker and prononciation very similar with modern french.

It would be great to hear a Nord-Occitan (Auvergne/Limousin) and Marchois speaker

[janetruh]

Thank you for this wonderful video. Such a treat to learn about all these linguistic connections!

[javicruz]

One thing that stood out to me is that Occitan tends to be more phonetic than French and every letter of the words is pronounced, and it's closer to Italian or Spanish than French is

[Gblau]

Molt bon vídeo, m'ha agradat molt. Penso que l'occità és una llengua molt bonica

[soverr]

Sieù Nissart 💪
Nissa per toujoù !
Thank you for this video. You made me really proud and happy ❤

[ofm-uiut]

As a Portuguese native speaker, it was better understand Occitan than Franch for me.