I'm from France. In reality it is much broader than that, France has an extraordinary linguistic diversity, but since the revolution, the government has done everything to impose French and suppress these languages. Until recently in the French countryside people spoke their local languages among themselves, and French for the administration. Then, measures were imposed, students did not have the right to speak their language at school under penalty of being punished, for example. More and more francization was voluntarily imposed on all aspects of daily life, and with time, these languages started to disappear because they were not transmitted correctly. Today, very few French people speak their regional language, that of their ancestors. Regional cultures are also being swept away in the same way. This is how Occitan, Corsican, Basque, Breton, Alsatian, Provençal, Nissart, Chtimi, and so many others are in danger of disappearing, which will not take long. France has succeeded in its work. It's very sad.
@gabrieledonofrio16126 ай бұрын
That's why nationalism is a danger too
@elenabe47183 ай бұрын
This is a bit weird if you think that France also protects minority languages like the tuareg's, but not it's own territorial languages???
@jeromecollin46503 ай бұрын
it's a natural evolution of a state centralisation + The regionalist are often from far right and conservatist so... lol
@adriasalarich3 ай бұрын
@@jeromecollin4650 no language deserves to be suppressed and eradicated. Cultural diversity doesn't hurt anyone, and if someone disagrees maybe they're the ones who should check their beliefs
@BruneSixtine2 ай бұрын
Radio and Télévision are as much responsible tbh.
@gabrieledonofrio1612 Жыл бұрын
We should revive endangered languages!
@TheManAntonial Жыл бұрын
I shall learn Corsican just to troll the French via nationalism
@ErikPT Жыл бұрын
No gracias prefiero los dialectos para confundir a la gente
@NeoCrash99 ай бұрын
@@TheManAntonialTip: Corsican is basically a strong italian dialect
@RobertStalbans7 ай бұрын
To do what?
@no6odys8fe906 ай бұрын
Nah im good , GO FRANCE AND SPEAK REAL FRENCH
@manelvidiella80043 ай бұрын
In fact catalan was spoke in france in the agricultural towns until government decided it was a low class lenguage and forbid the population from speaking it
@Nicolas_II2 ай бұрын
It was spoken in Roussillon (rosselhone)
@jonistan9268 Жыл бұрын
To add to the official thingy: As per the second paragraph of the French constitution, French is the sole official language of France (République Française, 5ème République, whatever), which means that not only Occitan doesn't have an official status, but all other minority languages don't either.
@gabrieledonofrio1612 Жыл бұрын
True. France is very centralist not to say fascist.
@jonistan9268 Жыл бұрын
@@gabrieledonofrio1612 Do you really think centralism and fascism are the same thing?
@MadhanBhavani Жыл бұрын
I'm guessing Basque has no chance there. If it has any chance, it's on the Spain side.
@ErikPT Жыл бұрын
As it should be the French are very elitist to their former French-speaking colonies
@petitnormand106611 ай бұрын
@@gabrieledonofrio1612The word is still quite exaggerated. But in a way you are right. Peasant dialects are erased and banned. And above all, real languages like Occitan, Breton... We're not just talking about a few peasant ways of speaking present everywhere in France, but about languages with real spelling, grammar, conjugation... a language in its own right. That the official language of France is French, normal. But remove the other languages...not necessary
@leufan3878 ай бұрын
i'm from where occitan was spoken and my grandfather told me than if he spoke occitan (his dialect was Auvergnat), the teacher hit him
@no6odys8fe906 ай бұрын
Good
@stevenrussellpascal6 ай бұрын
@@no6odys8fe90 how is that good?! 😮
@gabrieledonofrio16126 ай бұрын
I'm sorry for that, it also used to happen here (Sardinia) 😢 People were forbidden to speak their own language. This is a violation of human rights.
@no6odys8fe906 ай бұрын
@@gabrieledonofrio1612 womp womp learn real Italian and get over yourself
@setyawanhartono78114 ай бұрын
I also did this when i was in Elemantary school, back then in my school whoever that students speaking Javanese instead of speaking Indonesian Teacher were often punished us by Slap ourselves in the face 😔 (i did this as well, my teacher forced this when i was young) and now the Javanese languange in my province's school were almost decreased.
@r.v.4241 Жыл бұрын
Langues d’oïl didn’t develop from old French. "Old French" doesn’t really exist, it’s just a name we give to all forms of early langues d’oïl. Occitan is not the only family of languages the French Republic tried to annihilate, they also wanted to destroy every langue d’oïl that wasn’t French, also Breton, Flamand, Alsacien, Corse and Arpitan.
@lodewijkvandoornik384410 ай бұрын
Still the name "old French" is also use for all forms of old oïl languages, but old French existed. It was just one of them, at that time they were all mutually intelligible. "Franceis".
@gabrieledonofrio16126 ай бұрын
"French" doesn't exist.
@ia80184 ай бұрын
@@gabrieledonofrio1612 It is the national ideology of the French state that make the language of Paris official and call it French imposing it on the people subjected to the state.
@systemreactive40923 ай бұрын
Old French were Frankish, they weren't French but Germanic tribes that originated from Rhineland
@r.v.42413 ай бұрын
@@systemreactive4092 The Franks represented only a small portion of the population of France (tens of thousands), the vast majority of the population in France were Gallo-romans (5-10 millions), romanized celts speaking many dialects of Vulgar Latin / Proto Romance The franks adopted those languages and abandoned their own language, old Frankish. Old Frankish has left only few words in Old French and it is not the direct ancestor of French, old Frankish was a German language, it however became Old Dutch (Old Low Franconian, a dialect of Old Frankish) and later Dutch.
@tibsky1396 Жыл бұрын
It was the language of love and troubadours in Medieval era. Very popular in European courts, especially with Eleanor of Aquitaine, and his son Richard Lionheart.
@darkcnotion24 күн бұрын
👏The gay science.
@Com-fh5es2 ай бұрын
I love how you say "the language the french government doesn't want you to know about" as if there was only one (Alsacien, Breton, Basque, Corse...)
@fablb9006 Жыл бұрын
There has never be a « war » of northerners against occitan as many people who do not know French history well tend to think. There has been a « war » from Paris against ALL dialects of France... which means against 90% of the country. No distinction between oil or occitan dialects, or franco provencal, catalan, corscian, or non-latin languages of France such as Basque, Breton, Flemish or Alsacian. All regional languages had been treated the same way. We could almost say that it was even stronger towards oil dialects, because as they were closer to Parisian, they suffer from disappearing more quickly.
@deumevet Жыл бұрын
but langues d'oil are a lot closer to french, that means it was not as dificult for them to switch from one or the other, that means that the pressure against occitan was harder because it was from a longer distance and was different.
@Pauliepoika Жыл бұрын
@@deumevet French is an oïl language.
@Pauliepoika Жыл бұрын
@@deumevet There are oïl-oc hybrid languages in the transitional area of Le Croissant. I’m not sure where I’m going with this, however 😆
@stimorolication9480 Жыл бұрын
Not aimed at the language, but the Albigensian crusade was a devastating blow to the courts and elites of the south, and with them the rich troubadour culture. This had lasting effects on the status of the language.
@petitnormand106611 ай бұрын
Exactly. Al dialects and language are dying.. North, South, West, Est...
@mwittmann68 Жыл бұрын
Notice that it's the French Republic who made efforts to supress it and not the Kingdom of France. The IIIrd Republic tried to wash away all the dialects and other languages (Alsatian, Occitan, Arpitan, Britton, Flemish, Catalan, Bask, Corse and Langue d'oïl dialects)
@Chuckloris843 ай бұрын
François Ier declared French national language of the kingdom and signed the ordonnance of Villers-Cotterêts that prescribed the use of French in official documents. So the suppression of regional languages started earlier than the IIIrd Republic.
@grimaldus15233 ай бұрын
@@Chuckloris84that just means it is language for government
@r.v.42413 ай бұрын
@@Chuckloris84 Il y a quand même une sacrée différence entre adopter une langue comme langue de l'administration pour faciliter la gouvernance et décréter que des langues devraient être détruites.
@Chuckloris843 ай бұрын
@@r.v.4241 Je suis d'accord, simplement je ne pense pas que les républicains aurait eu autant de succès dans leur tentative de faire disparaître les langues régionales s'il n'y avait pas déjà eu plusieurs siècles d'imposition du Français dans l'administration.
@r.v.42413 ай бұрын
@@Chuckloris84 La langue française dans l'administration n'avait que très peu d'influence sur le français lambda du XVIème siècle, ça ne concernait que les actes de naissances / mariages / décès, les contrats etc, la France était très peu alphabétisée de toute manière. Si un paysan du XVIème qui parle picard doit faire baptiser son fils, il ira le faire auprès du prêtre (les premiers registres d'état civil sont tenus par l'église), le prêtre sera simplement tenu de rédiger ses registres en français mais lui-même parle la langue locale au quotidien. Voilà l'effet qu'a l'ordonnance de Villers-Cotteret sur le français moyen, bien sûr il y a des exceptions et dans les villes la langue française se propage plus rapidement qu'à la campagne. Voilà ce qu'écrit Henri Grégoire à la Convention Nationale en 1794 dans son "Rapport sur la nécessité et les moyens d’anéantir les patois et d’universaliser l’usage de la langue française": "On peut assurer sans exagération qu’au moins six millions de Français, sur-tout dans les campagnes, ignorent la langue nationale ; qu’un nombre égal est à-peu-près incapable de soutenir une conversation suivie ; qu’en dernier résultat, le nombre de ceux qui la parlent purement n’excède pas trois millions ; & probablement le nombre de ceux qui l’écrivent correctement est encore moindre." Donc 3 millions de français sur 28 millions qui parlaient le français comme langue principale en 1794, autant dire que l'ordonnance de Villers-Cotterêts n'a pas vraiment eu l'importance qu'on lui accorde sur la diffusion du Français.
@familhagaudir85619 ай бұрын
"Endangered" is an understatement. It wasen't so bad in the 1990's, but things went down really fast after that. Fully-native speakers who could say everything of the daily life in Occitan are almost all gone. There remains many older heritage speakers who were heavily influenced by French and do code-switching to French alot. Very few people under 60 can speak with a decent syntax and accent. This includes the teachers who often don't speak the language fluently. Even in Occitan language festivals few people speak it. You'd expect people go there to practice, but it's mostly French speakers, with the obligatory "Se Canta" and other songs in Occitan. You can also speak French to buy a book written in Occitan. If you insist on speaking it you'll find fluent speakers who will switch to Occitan. Insist alot.
@angyliv80407 ай бұрын
It’s also spoken in Spain.
@fueyo2229Ай бұрын
And it's an official language of Catalonia
@sergiogarpla290226 күн бұрын
@@fueyo2229 No, the official language of Catalunya is Català, that is like saying Spanish is the official language of Portugal. However, Aranés is a dialect of Occitan which is still preserved in Spain on the Valle d'Arán
@fueyo222926 күн бұрын
@@sergiogarpla2902 Catalonia has 3 official languages, Catalan, Castilian and Aranese (Occitan), this can be easily checked in the Wikipedia article for Catalonia. No need to guess wrongly like you're doing.
@sergiogarpla290226 күн бұрын
@@fueyo2229 And if you go to the official page of Turism of Catalunya, you will see it is not considered one, it is only considered in the Vall D'Aran page(which is a small place at the north west territory of catalunya)
@octavian76373 ай бұрын
A l'entrada del temps clar Ai vist lo lop These two songs in occitan are one of my favorite and i used to hate french language but after i heard the occitan and older burgundian i found out there is a really beautiful in france and not all French people talk like ugly parisian accent.
@esqui3077Ай бұрын
They are great occitan sons indeeed, if you enjoy them you may also like : Senhors, Per los Nostres Peccatz
@BanCommies_Fascists11 ай бұрын
Italy, Spain and France have always suppressed the minority language. Heck they even named their official language after their country. Parisian became French, Castilian became Spanish, Tuskan became Italy.
@Heterogeneity3 ай бұрын
Colonizers gonna colonize and obliterate
@VictorLdVS3 ай бұрын
In Spain "Spanish" is called Castilian by many
@fueyo2229Ай бұрын
@VictorLdVS many people call it that here yes but the "official" name is still Spanish, see the RAE (Real Academia Española), the linguistic institution that regulates standard Spanish, still is called Española
@VictorLdVSАй бұрын
@@fueyo2229 There is no official name, although "Castilian" is more precise than "Spanish", it's like calling the English language "British". I personally would stop calling it "Spanish" completely, it causes many confusions (el que mucho abarca poco aprieta).
@TaoPatalo Жыл бұрын
If it interested you I work in an occitan's school called Calandreta and I speak a little bit Occitan
@gamermapper Жыл бұрын
Salut ! Com aquò e va ? Qu'ei vertadèrament plan tranquille que sabes parlar la lenga d'òc ! Juste, que parla la quau varietat de l'occitan ? Lo provençau, gascon, auvernhat, dalfinés, niçard o Lemosin? E de quau país d'Occitània e vienes ? E de quau parçan ? La lenga d'òc, atau com la cultura deus pòbles autoctònes qui la parlan, qu'ei incredible e plan interessanta, e qu'espèri véder los occitans se reapropriar la lor vertadèra identitat e cultura ! Viva Occitània !
@TaoPatalo Жыл бұрын
@@gamermapper je ne sais pas l'écrire malheureusement même si je le lis, je parle le béarnais, celui d épaule et qui est enseigné dans les écoles calendreta, j'y travail d'ailleurs !
@gabrieledonofrio16126 ай бұрын
How comes you speak it "a little bit" if you work in an Occitan school? 😮
@TaoPatalo6 ай бұрын
@@gabrieledonofrio1612 cause i'm learning
@Enric_Dalmau4 ай бұрын
Se eu fosse aprender um novo idioma com toda certeza seria o Occitan, é uma língua belíssima! Consigo entender tudo mesmo sendo nativo do português. ❤️🙏🏻
@benvad90103 ай бұрын
The French government wants to ensure a French State with one language, one people and one nation. That's the policy officially for the national government. This happened in Germany, Italy and Great Britain. The locals must preserve the language themselves and use that as their language of every day discourse.
@FolloRofrenholdogflyttebyra Жыл бұрын
We used to learn Occitan at school in Béziers France in the 80’s!
@gustavoscalabrin50283 ай бұрын
I am a Portuguese native speaker and French speaker too. In my first contact with Occitan, I got really surprised that I coul understand it quite easily using Portuguese and French as references
@musafawundu67188 ай бұрын
Get some of your facts correct. The suppression of Occitan dialectsand even other Oil dialects , Franco-Provencal, Breton, and other languages began only after the French revolution...
@rickariki5472 ай бұрын
Get better manners when you think you are providing advice.
@PrinsTan3 ай бұрын
Occitan is a family of languages and dialects. To choose one, would be to possibly suppress others.
@PhantomKING1133 ай бұрын
Slight correction: Occitan is also spoken in parts of Spain (with many (idk if all) of its Spanish varieties recieving the name "Gascón"), though even here it isn't an official language, but different varieties of it do have some legal recognitions. It's a shame that France doesn't even feel a bit of shame for killing these languages. We here in Spain should also be doing more to protect them tbf, but the situation in France is just horrible.
@mems_surenys3 ай бұрын
In la Vall d'Aran it's called aranese and it's protected by the Catalan government.
@PhantomKING1133 ай бұрын
@@mems_surenys and it's incredibly based xd, tɡouɡh idk much about it other than one fun fact: Latin/Romance word-initial clusters cl-, fl-, and pl- often turned into ll- in Spanish and many other languages of the peninsula, and in others they stayed as cl-, fl-, pl- (I believe this includes some varieties of Gascón and/or Aragonese), but Aranese went the middle way and ended up with the unpronunciable cll-, fll-, and pll-, which is just based imo. (source: I don't remember where I read this)
@woufwouf1669Ай бұрын
Actually, Gascon is an Occitan dialect spoken in the french region of Gascogne (on the map, the dialect in the West). Aranese is the dialect of Gascon spoken in Spain, but it's a tiny bit of the entire Gascon area 😉
@PhantomKING113Ай бұрын
@@woufwouf1669 That makes sense, though Aranese specifically refers to what's spoken in the Arán valley, so whatever, idk what to call anything anymore.
@fueyo2229Ай бұрын
In Spain, it's called Aranese (Aranés) and it's a sub dialect of the Gascon occitan dialect, it's an official language regionally and has full protection as do the other official languages in Spain such as Basque or Catalan
@adrasthe314 Жыл бұрын
Holy shit an Anglophone that knows abt occitan on the internet im like, shocked in a good way :D
@gamermapper Жыл бұрын
Often foreigners know way more about Occitan than ethnic Occitan people themselves who completely forgot the entire history of their peuples
@adrasthe314 Жыл бұрын
I'd disagree-ish? I dont live in France, but I've found out that occitans that moved out of France are often very aware of their heritage and very proud of it, while, when I look at my cousins whom have always lived in Occitania, they mostly seem to not care. When I speak to my uncle and aunt, they kinda seem like they've given up on it. They're aware of what happened and the pain it caused, but it's like they gave up on trying to salvage anything. It's a sort of quiet and resigned defeatism that kinds of make me sad to see
@TaoPatalo Жыл бұрын
Jsuis refait aussi
@gamermapper Жыл бұрын
I live in Alsace but I've only heard of the history of Occitània. Elsàss, Breizh, etc only thanks to foreigners on map and ethnic discussion communities talking about it. It does make sense to, since most French people are in a cultural bubble and this kind of thing is rarely spoken. That's the case for other groups too. For example, the African Americans understood their unbelievable oppression they had in the US in the 50s only after visiting the USSR.
@ratisbonawau11 ай бұрын
100%, the same thing is happening with every minority culture in every Post-Victorian State, its a genuine tragedy. Especially the lack of Christianity which would give people a goal, hope & meaning makes people very prone to defeatism since "nothing matters anyways" if things go array. The History of the Occitans especially hurts my Soul since their entire Homeland and Culture was slaughtered while the Immoral Modern World simply ignores it. @@adrasthe314
@ia80184 ай бұрын
Southern French people should learn and use Occitan, don't let it die.
@TheZapan99 Жыл бұрын
The repression of the Occitan language only started with the French Revolution, so only 200 years ago, because the Jacobins were strictly opposed to the regionalist model proposed by their political enemies the Girondins, considering it as seditious and conspiratorial. Under the Old Regime, the monarchy had nothing against local languages. Louis the XIV even had representatives from Amerindian tribes shipped over to France, just so they could greet the king in their own language, as a display of prestige. The French Republic has on the contrary twisted some historical decrees, like the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts in 1539, to push the false narrative that French authorities always acted with the same brutality they displayed against cultural minorities, in a classic attempt to darken the past to better sell their bright tomorrow.
@adrasthe314 Жыл бұрын
We were violently conquered in a false crusade and our elite was forcefully removed to be replaced by French ones, how is that not violent repression
@adrasthe314 Жыл бұрын
May I add that this happened in the early 13th century? And Louis didn't bring natives in France to listen and respect them but as novelty, almost like toys. They thought them stupid and uncivilised and treated them as such
@TheZapan99 Жыл бұрын
Typical decolonial lies and victim mentality. The Cathar Crusade had nothing to do with linguistic oppression, it was a military invasion backed by the pope to crush an heresy that deprived the church of parish tithes. The new rulers did nothing against the Occitan language, and in fact promoted the most prestigious cultural institution in that language: the Academy of Floral Games in Toulouse. You can easily find photos of Languedoc winegrowers protesting against imported competition in 1907 and all of their signs were still in Occitan. As for the supposed intentions of the king of France towards native Americans, let's just defer to the title they used for him "The Tallest Mountain in the World" as a clear sign of respect and consideration.
@r.v.4241 Жыл бұрын
@@adrasthe314 No, you’re just an ignorant, Louis XIV did invite a native, Nescambiouit, chief of the Abenakis in 1705, he highly respected him, gave him many presents and also knighted him. Louis XV also invited a native chief in Paris in 1725 (Agapit Chicagou). The french never wanted to destroy and enslave the natives like the English or the Spanish did, instead they wanted to trade and share. The french would also adopt natives traditions, languages and cultures. Many French at the time married natives, the Baron de Saint-Castin for exemple. In 1665, Louis XIV gave the instruction that no land should be taken from the natives for the French: "Qu’on n’usurpe point les terres sur lesquelles ils sont habituez soubs prétexte qu’elles sont meilleures ou plus convenables aux François" An American historian, Francis Parkman said: "Spanish civilization crushed the Indian; English civilization scorned and neglected him; French civilization embraced and cherished him" You seem highly uneducated on this subject.
@davidsenra2495 Жыл бұрын
Good try, Ancient Regime lover. But we're not buying your propaganda bullshit.
@BernasLL3 ай бұрын
It did have strong celtic influence, just not the same variety of celtic as parisian french, which mainly affects the distinct modern french accent. And yes, not nearly as much germanic.
@nathanguillemette9955 Жыл бұрын
Im french Canadian and my only roots that show up in france is the areas where occitan is spoken
@adrasthe314 Жыл бұрын
How far in your tree, if I may ask?
@fablb9006 Жыл бұрын
Well, 45% of France used to be speaking one of the occitan dialects.
@TaoPatalo Жыл бұрын
@@fablb9006 lots of French people speak occitan's languages today
@TaoPatalo Жыл бұрын
Et tu parles occitan ?
@ChristianJofre Жыл бұрын
I'm chilean with catalan-occitan roots, I don't know anything about the language my father and grandpa also doesn't but I am very curious to learn occitan or french, even catalan
@Caritas032522 күн бұрын
Joan petit que dança is a beautiful song in occitan
@iachi737 ай бұрын
Viene parlata anche nelle valli del Piemonte in Italia e in un paesino della Calabria sempre in Italia
@the6thchannelshow20092 жыл бұрын
Òc, coma un canadenc, j’aimar parlar lo lengatge per me, aürós èsser vosaltres tres per parla. ✊🇫🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹
@fucktugal_.y._fucktalunya Жыл бұрын
Sh¡t language
@LeJobastre1215 Жыл бұрын
Es bon de saber
@Occitan-Descoteaux Жыл бұрын
@@LeJobastre1215 encara tu !?? 😆
@TaoPatalo Жыл бұрын
Herà pla
@the6thchannelshow2009 Жыл бұрын
Mmhmm
@CommanderxShepard7 ай бұрын
Bruh.. Catalan and Occitan developed around the same time, they derived from Latin and for a long time (prior to the 11th to 14th century) people believed they were the same language. They heavily influenced each other and were influenced by Spanish dialects and Italian dialects as well. Occitan did not come from Catalan.
@VictorLdVS3 ай бұрын
Who said so?
@goldenmaknae754 Жыл бұрын
Matter of fact we did learn about this in my French class I’m French
@thelias91 Жыл бұрын
even as a french (from paris suburbs) i have very fragile knowledge about french regional language…
@aleMek3 ай бұрын
My mother who was born in 1926 told me that on schoolwalls, it was written "speak french !" Personally I'm capable to speak occitan ! "oc" in Occitan means yes and is pronounced "o" (( WE dont hear the C )
@MadMatTom77692 ай бұрын
So it's ositan?
@aleMek2 ай бұрын
@@MadMatTom7769 No, this time it is pronounced ouksitan ( because "o" in a whole word sounds "ou"
@MadMatTom77692 ай бұрын
@@aleMek But... that means u pronounce single 'c' like 'ks'??
@Lusinic2 ай бұрын
Basically is it a is it romantic language
@adamclark1972ukАй бұрын
It is
@calmeilles3 ай бұрын
France, like Italy, has a poor record with its regional languages however the 2021 Molac Law recognises the overall importance of these languages by awarding them the status of “national treasure” and, secondly, supporting the teaching of regional languages. There are 50+ Diwan bilingual Breton-French schools for immersive teaching and a similar number of Calandreta schools teaching in Occitan and French.
@gabrielmaldonado1903 Жыл бұрын
I wish French goverment change it soon ! Occitan language needs to be protect it. They are more french than people in paris now days
@donkeydik2602 Жыл бұрын
La langue est seulement parlée dans des petites communautés montagnardes donc très peu probable de raviver la langue d’oc
@cruzgomes5660 Жыл бұрын
@@donkeydik2602not with that attitude ☺️
@cruzgomes5660 Жыл бұрын
Bro chose to speak facts 💯
@papaxsmurf7678 Жыл бұрын
Bro nice poster in the back, I love that thing 👌
@soykre4645 Жыл бұрын
Occitan and French ❤ brother
@HamzaPKR2 ай бұрын
Its such a beautiful language. So much easier on the ears than standard French.
@MrOoYT3 ай бұрын
Ever since the Jacobins, languages and dialects of France have been rapidly waning. Some Occitans don’t even know they’re Occitans.
@user-rj3ub4fd4u14 күн бұрын
1. Occitan is not a single language but a branch of the Romance languages. Gascon and Provençal, e.g., aren't mutually intelligible. Catalan is arguably part of it. 2. The Occitan language was not oppressed for five centuries. Its golden troubadour years were far behind when, by the 16th century, most southern French writers had already switched to French. The oppression began when French was declared the sole official language during the Revolution, and was intensified by the so-called "vergonha", standing for "shame", where in the late 19th century, as public education became mandatory in France, so did the use of French for pupils at school, leading to the rapid decline of not only Occitan languages but also Breton, Alsacian, and even other Oïl languages, such as Picard, Angevin, Lorrain, Normand, Gallo, all to the profit of standard French. 3. The French government probably does not care if you know about Occitan. The decline is irreversible, and the people pf southern France view French as their native tongue. This has been the case since the mid 20th century at the latest. Overall not a very good short.
@Prodigious1One3 ай бұрын
Great topic.
@seriekekomo2 жыл бұрын
"Catalan the Langauge of Catalonia"... People speak it in Valencia, in Andorra and even in Italy, bruh
@fucktugal_.y._fucktalunya Жыл бұрын
*Separatist language 😂
@fucktugal_.y._fucktalunya Жыл бұрын
¿Who cares at all?
@mortisx1359 ай бұрын
@@fucktugal_.y._fucktalunyaSeparatist from spain? why? just because it exists? another andalusian supremacist here
@adriasalarich3 ай бұрын
And balearic islands too.
@adriasalarich3 ай бұрын
@@fucktugal_.y._fucktalunya your username gives you away dummy
@louloumoon9365 Жыл бұрын
Tres interesant!!!
@Sedgewise473 ай бұрын
🤔 Wow. Learn something new every day… BTW- 😏 Gotta love the [suspiciously-?/annoyingly-?]All-Knowing KZfaq Algorithm for pushing this short on me. 🤷♂️So I *recently* clicked on a couple of medieval Trabadour songs-so now the KZfaq Divinity now _assumes_ I wanna learn about all stuff “Occitan”?(!) Not really complaining-it’s cool to learn something new every day; it’s just that…It seems _kinda_ weird to me, that’s all….
@astralp429211 ай бұрын
Mai subrevivèm encara vuei e contuniarem de lònga 😁
@seid33662 жыл бұрын
Your pronunciation sounds so fancy
@phrostieee Жыл бұрын
he butchers the language
@Shrey_Shrek Жыл бұрын
asturleonese server guy?
@cinnamoncharlotte28 күн бұрын
occitan is more of a collection of languages with common traits than its own actual language. i, for example, speak south Auvergnat, and people who speak Nissard have a hard time understanding me when i speak. both of these languages are considered occitan dialects
@DJHELIPКүн бұрын
Occitan is a language with different dialects, but it's a unique language. The problem of intercomprehension don't mean it's a different language, it's like french speaked by a canadian, a Belge, and a parisian, it's not the same pronounciation, the same words and expression, but they are all speaking the same language, the french. I'm occitan, and i learned Lengadocian, and i arrive to understand Gascon, Lemosin, Provençal,... I already read Auvergnat and i understand. Perhaps for understanding when a people speak it would be a little difficult at the beginning, the time to understand the accent, but it would be like to speak french with a Canadian from Quebec.
@Gildas_djdb6 ай бұрын
Très intéressant !
@tyeransom5290 Жыл бұрын
How did I never hear about this?
@tonybablony2041 Жыл бұрын
He just told you why😐
@gamermapper Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, on our world, cultures aren't created equal, and some get way more publicity and spotlight than others. You can see this for example with Ukraine. It only gets spotlight right now, before that, most people only looked at them as basically similar to Russians, and in the 19th century as outright just a part of Russian culture. It's only now they get recognition they deserve for their unique identity, culture and history. Occitan culture still gets treated as Ukrainian culture was in the 19th century, completely forgotten and ignored. Just seen as a part of France. Despite the fact it has an extremely rich literary tradition, including the Nobel prize winning writer Frédéric Mistral, it also has the Troubadours, it used to be the love language, it's where d'Artagnan is from (Gasconha), etc. And if you're wondering what other cultures are completely ignored and hidden, you could find plenty. If you're in the US, I would say Indigenous cultures are completely ignored in many areas, despite the fact they used to be the majority cultures in all of North America before the brutal colonialism. People know more about the differences of Ohio vs Idaho than between the Haida and Chickasaw nation, despite the fact that the latter are millenia long existing cultures, and the former are recently created borders by settlers for administrative reasons, and so obviously with way less cultural differences.
@MadMatTom77692 ай бұрын
@@gamermapperStupid comparison. Ukrainians don't have history, other than slaughterin innocent civilians. And yes they are similar to russians, both are more mongoloids than Slavs.
@Croissant-francaise. Жыл бұрын
Pas mal
@europa_bambaataa4 ай бұрын
long du-wheeel
@josepferrerserra2 ай бұрын
Ànims germans occitans!
@ivicaanic52138 күн бұрын
This somehow shades totally different light on French culture and country... brrrrr in not good way at all
@Kanmeii6 ай бұрын
is it true that only 700.000 people speak it on such a big area?
@K.Pershing Жыл бұрын
Rien de personnel juste de la politi 🧔🔫
@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072Күн бұрын
That’s….. not true??
@kenzo50962 ай бұрын
Free my occitans brother from the frank colonisation
@EnigmashootАй бұрын
Franks? We are invaded by africans
@putraswarga6087 ай бұрын
Long dog
@mirage258510 ай бұрын
I don't understand, the Celtic influence should be the same, Celtic Gaul encompassed all of France.
@ElGrochon6 ай бұрын
No, Gallia Celtica dont encompassed all France, Aquitania wasn't celt, Narbonensin have iberian and ligurian roots (it's still a debate if ligure = celt)
@ChangeNameEdits9 күн бұрын
🧼
@jonathansoko108510 ай бұрын
You failed with your lack of Celtic influence part friend. Celts were all over Spain and southern France and it's all over occitan.
@ElGrochon6 ай бұрын
Not all over, Aquitania and modern day basque country wasnt (see Vasconia)
@elenabe47183 ай бұрын
I wonder if "oc" and "ok" are related somehow?
@VictorLdVS3 ай бұрын
@@elenabe4718 they are not
@elenabe47183 ай бұрын
@@VictorLdVS do you know where does "ok" come from? It's still interesting to see apparently similar words with the same meaning not being related
@VictorLdVS3 ай бұрын
@@elenabe4718 I have no idea where "ok" comes from, but occitan "oc" comes from latin "hōc" which meant "this".