If Napoleon hadn't come along, half of France might still speak the Occitan language. But Napoleon did come along, and he forged a highly centralized state. Paris became its capital and the language ...

Despite centuries of efforts to make standardised French the language of all of France, Occitan, which is intrinsically tied to the local culture, could not be suppressed. Our Unique World Our Unique ...

Participants carry flags with the Occitan cross in Montpellier, southern France on October 24, 2015, during a demonstration in favor of the Occitan language (langue d'oc), the ratification of the ...

Jill Kitson: A late 12th century troubadour's song of love, written in Occitan. Hello and welcome to Lingua Franca. This week: the language of the troubadours. Mireille Vignol reports on the language ...

Volunteer translators have made the open-source social network platform Diaspora* available in some of the most commonly used languages on the internet, such as Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, and ...

Ever heard of the Occitan language, the native tongue of the South of France? It is a language spoken by so few nowadays that even those who have vacationed multiple times in Nice, Cannes or anywhere ...

Despite centuries of efforts to make standardised French the language of all of France, Occitan, which is intrinsically tied to the local culture, could not be suppressed. Our Unique World Our Unique ...