| Also Known As: Provencal language,Provenzale,Mistralien,Prouvençau,Provençal
Description:
Provençal (Provençau) is one of several dialects of Occitan spoken by a minority of people in southern France, mostly in Provence. In the English-speaking world, "Provençal" is often used to refer to all dialects of Occitan, but it actually refers specifically to the dialect spoken in Provence, as well as in the southern portion of the Dauphiné, the Nîmes region in Languedoc, and the upper valleys of Piedmont, Italy (Val Maira, Val Varacha, Val d'Estura, Entraigas, Limon, Vinai, Pignerol, Sestriera). The Aranese language, a standardized form of the Pyrenean Gascon variety of the Occitan language, is spoken in the Aran Valley of northwestern Catalonia.
Outside Europe, the language is spoken mainly in California, with small Provençal-speaking communities found in the northern counties of Tehama, Siskiyou, Napa, Alpine. There are also small numbers of speakers found in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara counties in Southern California.
"Provençal" is also the customary name given to the older version of the langue d'oc used by the troubadours of medieval literature, corresponding to Old French or langue d'oil of the northern areas of France.
In 2007, the ISO 639-3 code changed from prv to..... full article at Wikipedia |
Location of Provençal Language Speakers
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46.000000, 2.000000, France
53.000000, 9.000000, Europe</googlemap>
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