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| Occitan lenga d'òc | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | France, Spain, Italy, Monaco | |
| Total speakers: | 1,939,000 | |
| Language family: | Indo-European Italic Romance Italo-Western Western Gallo-Iberian Gallo-Romance Occitan | |
| Official status | ||
| Official language of: | Officially recognised in Catalonia, Spain, as Occitan. | |
| Regulated by: | Conselh de la Lenga Occitana | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | oc | |
| ISO 639-2: | oci | |
| ISO 639-3: | variously: oci — Occitan (post 1500); Provençal auv — Auvergnat gsc — Gascon lnc — Languedocien lms — Limousin prv — Provençal sdt — Shuadit | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Occitan (AmE: /ˈɑksəˌtæn/), known also as Lenga d'òc or Langue d'oc (Occitan: occitan, lenga d'òc) is a Romance language spoken in Occitania, that is, Southern France, Monaco, and some valleys of Italy and in Aran Valley, in Spain, where is also known as Aranese. Nowadays it is an official language only in Catalonia.
The area where Occitan was historically dominant is home to some 14 million inhabitants. It may be spoken as a first language by as many as two million people in France, Italy, Spain and Monaco (Ethnologue, 2005). It is furthermore stated by some researchers that up to seven million people in France understand the language. However, these two estimates should be considered very optimistic upper bounds; the actual figures are almost certainly substantially lower. More widely accepted wisdom suggests that as few as half a million proficient speakers remain in France, for example.
In the English-speaking world, "Provençal" is often used to refer both Provençal and Occitan languages. On the other hand, all medieval languages used by troubadors are by the English speakers known as Langue d'oc.