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This article makes it sound like occitan is mostly used in rural communities to talk about local cuisine and folk tradition. There are also people speaking var

This article makes it sound like occitan is mostly used in rural communities to talk about local cuisine and folk tradition. There are also people speaking various dialects of occitan in Toulouse, Bordeaux, Perpignan, Marseille and Nice, mixing it with french and with languages brought by immigrant communities. There are rap songs in occitan, or mixing french occitan and arabic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1kK7iL9brY&list=PL2ztot6xjo-hRANqkw8knt8ahi59CKLdE&index=22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1kK7iL9brY&list=PL2ztot6xjo... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJXuUEVH5_M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJXuUEVH5_M

glandium 8y ago
I grew up near Perpignan, and never knew some people around there would speak Occitan. A lot speak catalan, though.
- AlunAlun 8y ago
  That’s because it’s possible to argue that Occitan, Catalan, Aranese etc are all ‘dialects’ of the same language. I speak Catalan, and I can understand most written Occitan, for example. “A language is a dialect with an army and navy” (said somebody, once!]