Languedocian dialect
Occitan dialect
Languedocian (French: Languedocien [lɑ̃ɡdɔsjɛ̃] ) or Lengadocian (Occitan pronunciation: [ˌleŋɡɔðuˈsja]) is an Occitan dialect spoken in rural parts of southern France such as Languedoc, Rouergue, Quercy, Agenais and southern Périgord. It is sometimes also called Languedocien-Guyennais. Owing to its central position among the dialects of Occitan, it is often used as a basis for a Standard Occitan.
About 10% of the population of Languedoc are fluent in the language (about 300,000), and another 20% (600,000) "have some understanding" of the language. All speak French as their first or second language.
Geographic distribution
Languedocian is spoken in certain parts of three French regions.
Occitanie: Aveyron, Lot, Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne except Lomagne, Ariège (except a western part), Haute-Garonne (except the districts of Saint-Gaudens and Muret), Aude, Hérault, Lozère, western and northern parts of Gard and Fenouillèdes.
Nouvelle-Aquitaine: south of the Dordogne, east of the Gironde, north-eastern two-thirds of Lot-et-Garonne, the southern fringe of Corrèze.
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes: area of Bas-Vivarois, Languedocien-Nord-Cévenol
Other dialects spoken in these areas include: Gascon, Catalan, Limousin, and Auvergnat, as well as the unrelated Basque language.
Characteristics
The following are the main characteristics of the Languedocian dialect:
occlusives are kept at the end of a word: cantat [kanˈtat] (in Provençal: [kãnˈta]);
preservation of the final s of a word: los òmes [luˈzɔmes] (in Limousin: [luzɔˈmej]);
the final n of a word is dropped: occitan [utsiˈta] (in Provençal: [usiˈtãn]);
absence of palatalisation of CA and GA groups: cantar, gal (in Auvergnat: chantar, jal);
preservation of the final l of a word (i.e.
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