Occitan language

Six Occitan languages which retain some speakers today: Limousin, Auvergnat, Vivaro-alpin, Gascon, Languedocien and Provencal.

Linguistics consider several endangerd romance languagess variants of the Occitan language.

In recent centuries most French people have spoken a version of the French language sometimes called Parisian French. The powerful central government imposed by Napoleon Bonaparte played a powerful role in the language of Paris, the capital, replacing the many regional French languages.

The many languages spoken in France are considered to have a particular recognizable difference in pronunciation of the word for yes -- oui in Parisian French. Parisian French, and other French languages from the north, like the Norman language, as their pronunciation derives from an original root romance languages which pronounce yes as oil. Languages from the south derive from an original root romance languages which pronounced yes as occ. The name occitan derives from this pronunciation of yes.

The Catalan language is linguistically closer to the Occitan language than it is to the Spanish language, and some linguists considered it an Occitan language.