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Provençal
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dialect of the Occitan language
Key facts
- Native to
- France , Italy , Monaco
- Native speakers
- (350,000 cited 1990)
- Language family
- Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Romance Italo-Western Western Romance Gallo-Romance Occitano-Romance Occitan Provençal
- Iso 639 3
- prv (retired); subsumed in oci
- Glottolog
- prov1235
- Elp
- Provençal
- Ietf
- oc-provenc
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- Southern Occitan
- Country
- France
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- different from
- Arpitan language
- dialect of
- Occitan
- P10369
- Karnataka
- native label
- prouvençau
- Commons category
- Provençal dialect
- writing system
- Occitan alphabet
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 354500
- topic's main category
- Category:Provençal dialect
- linguistic typology
- syllabic language
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Encyclopedic overview
Provençal (/ˌprɒvɒ̃ˈsɑːl/, also UK: /-sæl/, US: /ˌproʊ-, -vən-/, French: [pʁɔvɑ̃sal] ; Occitan: provençau or prouvençau [pʀuvenˈsaw]) is a variety of Occitan, spoken by people in Provence and parts of Drôme and Gard. The term Provençal used to refer to the entire Occitan language, but more recently it has referred only to the variety of Occitan spoken in Provence. However, it can still be found being used to refer to Occitan as a whole, e.g. Merriam-Webster states that it can be used to refer to general Occitan, though this is going out of use.
Provençal is also the customary name given to the older version of the Occitan language used by the troubadours of medieval literature, when Old French or the langue d'oïl was limited to the northern areas of France. Thus, the ISO 639-3 code for Old Occitan is [pro].
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Provençal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.