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Name: Occitan
Alternate Names: Gascon; Provençal; Auvergnat; Auvernhas; Auverne; Limousin; Lemosin; Provenzale; Prouvençau; Mistralien; Languedocien; Lengadoucian; Languedoc; Langadoc; Occitani; Aranés; Aranese; Arnais; Aranese Occitan
Spoken in: France, Italy
Number of speakers: 1,940,000 in France. Population total all countries: 2,048,310 (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 1500000 (UNESCO)
Code: oci
Code Authority: ISO 639-3
Code Standard: SIL
Families: Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Language: Old Provençal; Old Occitanian (pro)
Child Dialect Groups: Provençal; Provenzale; Prouvençau; Mistralien (oci-prv) Languedocien; Lengadoucian; Languedoc; Langadoc; Occitan; Occitani (oci-lnc) Gascon; Occitan; Aranés; Aranese; Arnais; Aranese Occitan (oci-gsc)

Endangerment Status


UNESCO Status: Severely endangered
Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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