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It was superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005).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 | Fluent speakers are 10% of the population in the region. About 20% more have some knowledge of it. |
| Region | Languedoc Province, from Montpellier to Toulouse, Bordeaux, Rodez, and Albi. |
| Alternate names | LENGADOUCIAN, LANGUEDOC, LANGADOC, OCCITAN, OCCITANI |
| Dialects | BAS-LANGUEDOCIEN, LANGUEDOCIEN MOYEN, HAUT-LANGUEDOCIEN, GUYENNAIS. |
| Classification | Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, Oc. |
| Comments | A separate language from Provençal (P. Blanchet 1990). Gascon speakers have limited intelligibility of Languedocien. Everyone speaks French as first or second language. To family and close friends. Mainly spoken in rural communities by people over 50. Attempts to standardize Languedocien for all languages of southern France have not been accepted by speakers of those languages. Attitudes are strong and differ about how different the Oc varieties are from each other. Languedocien resembles most the literary variety of Middle Occitan used in the Troubadours of the Middle Ages. Literacy rate in second language: 99%. Toulouse orthography is different from Ron. Poetry, newspapers. Bible portions 1888. |
