Is the language of Oc in danger of disappearing?
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Several thousand people marched in Béziers on March 17, 2007 for "the defense and recognition" of Occitan.
© BORIS HORVAT / AFP
By: Chantal Lorho Follow
31 min
According to a recent study, Occitan, this thousand-year-old Romance language is only spoken by 542,000 people in southwestern France and in Val d'Aran, Spain.
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Occitan or the language of Oc has been spoken for centuries over a large part of French territory, from Creuse to Provence, via Béarn, but it has fewer and fewer speakers.
The OPLO, the public office for the Occitan language, based in Toulouse, works to protect it.
With: Charline Claveau
, President of
the OPLO
,
Thomas Baudoin,
of the Compagnie
Hart brut
, who sings in Occitan in Béarn and
Manu Théron
, singer in Occitan in Marseille.
► To read also:
the results of the socio-linguistic survey of the OPLO
And the column
"La Puce à l'oreille"
by
Lucie Bouteloup
which is interested in the expression "to
be gringue
".
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