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

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