Crescent (Occitania)

For things named Crescent, see Crescent (disambiguation).
Map of Occitan dialects: the Crescent ("Creissent") lies in the far northern parts of the Lemosin and Auvernhat dialects.

The Crescent (Occitan: lo Creissent;[1] French: le Croissant) is a crescent-shaped linguistic zone, located in far northern Occitania (i.e. southern central France), where people traditionally speak varieties of the Occitan language (of the Lemosin and Auvernhat dialects) with transition features toward French; nevertheless Occitan features remain dominant.

The first author who coined the name Crescent was linguist Jules Ronjat, in his 1913 PhD thesis. A prominent study about the Crescent is Guylaine Brun-Trigaud's PhD Thesis: Le Croissant: le concept et le mot (1990).

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  1. Also lo Creishent in Gascon Occitan
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