If Napoleon hadn't come along, half of France might still speak the Occitan language. But Napoleon did come along, and he forged a highly centralized state. Paris became its capital and the language ...
Despite centuries of efforts to make standardised French the language of all of France, Occitan, which is intrinsically tied to the local culture, could not be suppressed. Our Unique World Our Unique ...
Participants carry flags with the Occitan cross in Montpellier, southern France on October 24, 2015, during a demonstration in favor of the Occitan language (langue d'oc), the ratification of the ...
Jill Kitson: A late 12th century troubadour's song of love, written in Occitan. Hello and welcome to Lingua Franca. This week: the language of the troubadours. Mireille Vignol reports on the language ...
RFI reports from the recent Accents du sud festival in Paris which gave pride of place to the Occitan language from the south of France. Singers from the Béarn province in the Pyrenees showed why ...
Given that the overwhelming majority of Occitan speakers today are new speakers — that is children, younger people and adults who learnt or are learning it besides their native French — it is ...
Volunteer translators have made the open-source social network platform Diaspora* available in some of the most commonly used languages on the internet, such as Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, and ...
PARIS, FRANCE - JULY 07: Newly appointed French Prime Minister Jean Castex arrives at the Elysee presidential palace to attend a weekly cabinet meeting on June 07, 2020 in Paris, France. New French ...
Despite centuries of efforts to make standardised French the language of all of France, Occitan, which is intrinsically tied to the local culture, could not be suppressed. Our Unique World Our Unique ...
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