The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
It was superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005). See also the corresponding entry in the current edition of Ethnologue.
| Population | Spoken by 10% to 20% of the population of the region. |
| Region | Limousin Province. Haut-Limousin around Limoges, Guéret, and Nontron in Charente; Bas-Limousin around Correze and Périgord. |
| Alternate names | LEMOSIN, OCCITAN |
| Dialects | HAUT-LIMOUSIN, BAS-LIMOUSIN. |
| Classification | Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, Oc. |
| Comments | Limousin, Languedocien, and Gascon are structurally separate languages (F.B. Agard). Partially intelligible to Provençal. In the north of the province people use a transition dialect with certain Oïl (north French) features. People speak French as first or second language. Few children speakers. Attitudes are strong and differ about how different the Oc varieties are from each other. |
