Languedocien dialect

Languedocien
Langadoc
Native to France
Region Languedoc
Native speakers
 unknown (undated figure of 5,000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 –
Glottolog lang1309[2]

Languedocien (French name) or Lengadocian (native name) is an Occitan dialect spoken in rural parts of southern France such as Languedoc, Rouergue, Quercy, Agenais and Southern Périgord. Due to its central position among the dialects of Occitan, it is often used as a basis for a Standard Occitan.[3]

About 10% of the population of Languedoc are fluent in the language, and another 20% "have some understanding" of the language. All speak French as their first or second language.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Languedocien at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Languedocian Occitan". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Claudi Balaguer, "Languedocian: A Central and Interface Dialect within Occitan", in John Partridge (ed.), Interfaces in Language, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010


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