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 wr

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!]