| The names I have used are from Occitan, the language of that time and period. |
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| These chapters exemplify a recent shift in Occitan scholarship away from the analysis of individual songs. |
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| Catalan broadcasts reach into the linguistically-related Occitan areas of France, and Galician can be heard in northern Portugal. |
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| In roughly the southern third of the country, the common people spoke dialects of Occitan, a Romance language distinct from French. |
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| If Occitan music is the sound of heaven, then Sardinian music is the sound of the earth. |
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| Maybe this Occitan movement is militant, I think, like the Spanish ETA or the IRA, or perhaps the council orders a siesta at a certain time of day. |
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| Even if the Catharism has been annihilated, it remains a symbol of liberty, tolerance and open-mindedness of the Occitan culture. |
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| The Catalan, Occitan or Breton languages represent the rootlets of France's cultural tree. |
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| Until the late 19th century most of the population in the south, for example, spoke variants of Occitan rather than French. |
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| The brilliant civilization of the Occitan troubadours lost its independence and, in 1271, the county of Toulouse fell into the royal domain. |
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| In Mediaeval times the Occitan language was the official language in the whole area, with the county of Toulouse as its cultural centre. |
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| Holding lessons in Breton or Occitan for children most of whom only speak French is a pure educational fantasy. |
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| In France, materials to support the teaching of Occitan have been developed. |
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| Soil and traditions, the language of oc or Occitan are still spoken and taught in schools. |
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| He's not only brilliant in law, he's an expert in historical research and has a huge library of medieval texts, even some in Old English and Occitan. |
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| The article reports that in recent years greater tolerance has allowed for more teaching of Occitan, Basque, Corsican and Alsation in France's schools. |
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| Oc, or Occitan, is the old medieval Romance language of the region. |
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| Where relevant, the administration should consider the knowledge of the Occitan language as part of recruitment processes for posts in the territory where it is spoken. |
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| The current version of Virtual Singer includes the following languages: Northern French, Southern French, UK English, US English, Latin, Spanish, Italian, Finnish, German, Occitan and Japanese. |
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| Occitan itself is spoken only in the comarca of Val d'Aran by roughly 6,700 people. |
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| The administration should take into account the linguistic uniqueness of Aran and guarantee the use of the Occitan language in the relations with the public administration bodies in compliance with the law. |
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| Such a performance is the trademark of this ensemble, whose variable configuration allows it to interpret many types of ancient music including popular traditions and songs in French as well as in Occitan. |
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| He wrote the song, in French and Occitan versions, to express his feelings of abandonment by his people and his sister. |
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| Language change has also threatened the survival of stateless languages with existing literary standards, such as Occitan. |
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| He began his career with translations of Occitan ballads and ended with translations of Egyptian poetry. |
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| From medieval times until today, the Gascon language has been spoken, although it is classified as a regional variant of the Occitan language. |
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| Activists' attempts since the 1970s to revive the Occitan language in Southern France are a similar attempt. |
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| This action should be seen as result of the aforementioned priority given over the Occitan and Catalan dominions of the Crown of Aragon. |
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| The Catalan, Aragonese and Occitan forces were disorganised and disintegrated under the assault of Montfort's squadrons. |
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| Languages such as Occitan, Breton, Basque, Catalan and Corsican are to a great extent marginalised in France. |
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| It perpetuates his Gallicization of the Occitan names which, though acceptable in a French translation, is regrettable in English. |
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| The madrigale, two or three tercets usually followed by one or two couplets, corresponds to no form of general application in Occitan. |
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| At the same time southern France gave birth to Occitan literature, which is best known for troubadours who sang of courtly love. |
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| The beloved Patriarch of the Sabarthes, the land of his forefathers, is also the opener of paths, the pioneer of a new vision of Occitan Catharism. |
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| Located at the heart of the old city, it was known in medieval times as the caularia, or cabbage market, in Occitan, the local dialect. |
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| Written in the ancient Romance language of Occitan or langue d'oc, the texts were undoubtedly sung, although. |
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| It is not the case for young Breton, Basque and Occitan speakers. |
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| About 000 regularly speak the Occitan language. |
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| In France, for instance, the dialect spoken in the region of Paris gradually spread to the entire country, and the Occitan of the south lost ground. |
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