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Provençal language
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Provençal language

Member of the Romance branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken in and around Provence in southeastern France. It is now regarded as a dialect or patois.

During the Middle Ages Provençal was in competition with French and was the language of the troubadours. It had a strong literary influence on such neighbouring languages as Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese. Since the 19th century, attempts have been made to revive it as a literary language.
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Dàvid Grosclaude, president of Occitan language group l'Institut d'Estudis Occitans, issued an open letter to the academy, which he called "full of bitterness, resentment and fear" and too blinkered to recognise France's diverse citizenship.
Local language recognition angers French academy by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
Mr Boyd was for many years a BBC producer and then retired to live in southwestern France where he came across what remains of the ancient Occitan language, the language of Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Eleanor: April Queen of Aquitaine by Contemporary Review
 
 
 
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