Posted: Nov 12, 2017 11:34 am
Scot Dutchy wrote:aban57 wrote:Scot Dutchy wrote:
This region of France has just as much claim as Catalan; Occitanie. Has its own language and culture. Was an autonomous region and has strong nationalist support.
And that language is spoken today by at least 22 people. Maybe 23. I grew up in that area, and I still fail to see what our "culture" is that is different from the French one.
No? I went to folk feast there once. Great fun was had by all and very nationalistic. It was claimed that a few hundred spoke the language. I suppose you are talking about 'native' speakers which a difficult definition everywhere?
In Ireland for instance nobody really knows who is a native Irish speaker. Everyone is taught it at school but who uses it afterwards is unknown. Civil servants have to be bi-lingual.
22 was a slight exageration. You can learn occitan in a few schools, but no one speaks it anymore anyway. And I never heard of anyone considering Occitanie as a country. But maybe I didn't meet the right people.