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I grew up near Perpignan, and never knew some people around there would speak Occitan. A lot speak catalan, though.
by 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 agoThat’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!]