Occitan
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Col is French for pass, whereas Port is Occitan for, er, pass.
From The Guardian
Centralisers from the Revolution on did their best to suppress regional languages first - like Occitan and Breton - then the accents that emerged from them.
From BBC
Their name derives from the word for “tanned” in Occitan, a language spoken in the south of France.
From Washington Times
She and her pupils speak Occitan, once the most popular literary language in Europe.
From Economist
Rather than mentioning either Occitan or Catalan, they say, the enlarged region could have opted for Pyrénées-Méditérranée, a name that is culturally neutral but highlights the region’s mountains and sea.
From New York Times
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