Occitan language
Romance language spoken in Southern France, Monaco, Italy's Occitan Valleys, as well as Spain's Val d'Aran; collectively, these regions are sometimes referred to as Occitània.
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Languedocien dialect
Languedocien (French name, ), Languedocian or Lengadocian, is an Occitan dialect spoken in rural parts of southern France such as Languedoc, Rouergue, Quercy, Agenais and Southern Périgord.
Southern France
Defined geographical area consisting of the regions of France that border the Atlantic Ocean south of the Marais Poitevin, Spain, the Mediterranean Sea and Italy.
The area corresponds in large part to Occitania (Occitanie) in southern Europe, the historical and cultural region in which Occitan (langue d'oc) – as distinct from the langues d'oïl of northern France – was the predominant language.
Provençal dialect
Provençal (,, ; provençal , ; provençau or prouvençau ) is a variety of Occitan spoken by people in Provence and parts of Drôme.
Limousin dialect
Limousin (lemosin) is a dialect of the Occitan language, spoken in the three departments of Limousin, parts of Charente and the Dordogne in the southwest of France.
Auvergnat
Auvergnat or Occitan auvergnat (endonym: auvernhat ) is a northern dialect of Occitan spoken in central and southern France, in particular in the former administrative region of Auvergne.
Vivaro-Alpine dialect
Vivaro-Alpine (vivaroalpenc, vivaroaupenc) is a variety of Occitan spoken in southeastern France (namely, around the Dauphiné area) and northwestern Italy (the Occitan Valleys of Piedmont and Liguria).
Catalonia
Autonomous community of Spain, designated as a nationality by its Statute of Autonomy.
The official languages are Catalan, Spanish, and the Aranese dialect of Occitan.
Val d'Aran
Administrative entity (formerly considered a comarca) in Lleida, Catalonia, Spain, consisting of the Aran Valley, 620.47 km2 in area, in the Pyrenees mountains, in the northwestern part of the province of Lleida.
Aranese is the standardized form of the local Gascon variety of the Occitan language.
Eastern Lombard dialect
Group of closely related variants of Lombard, a Gallo-Italic dialect spoken in Lombardy, mainly in the provinces of Bergamo, Brescia and Mantua, in the area around Crema and in parts of Trentino.
According to those who consider it a language, Eastern Lombard is a Romance language of the Gallo-Italic branch, closer to Occitan, Catalan, French, etc. than to Italian, with a Celtic substratum.
Frédéric Mistral
French writer of Occitan literature and lexicographer of the Provençal form of the language.
He received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of the fresh originality and true inspiration of his poetic production, which faithfully reflects the natural scenery and native spirit of his people, and, in addition, his significant work as a Provençal philologist".