Crossword clues for occitan
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"Old or modern Provençal; langue d'Oc," 1940, also "the northern variant of modern Provençal;" from French oc (see Languedoc).
Wikipedia
Occitan is the name of a community currency started in 2010 in Pézenas, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. It is named after the Occitan language.
The Occitan program is intended to promote local commerce. The Occitan operates with a fixed exchange rate: = There is a fixed commission of 4% for members (shops) and 6% for individuals.
Usage examples of "occitan".
From the middle of the twentieth century, there has been an Occitan language revival, led by authors, poets and historians such as Rene Nelli, Jean Duvernoy, Deodat Roche, Michel Roquebert, Anne Brenon, Claude Marti and others.
La Cite in the heart of the medieval citadel of Carcassonne and the Occitan spellings of towns and regions appear alongside the French spellings on road signs.
A half-empty glass of water stood on the bedside table, next to a volume of Occitan poetry by Rene Nelli, its paper marked around the edges.
Marek could speak them: Middle English, Old French, Occitan, and Latin.
He took two, opened the door, and said something in Occitan, waving the bottles at the soldiers.
Marek was still wearing the maroon and gray colors of Oliver, and he began to babble in Occitan, pleading innocence, begging for mercy.
I was kidnapped while a guest of an illegal colony here, founded by the disbanded Occitan Legion.
The gravity and the sun, sky, and sea were right, and the interior of this little house, perched on a cliff, was distinctly Occitan in style.
Toulouse, in Aix, Nimes, Albi, Aries, Carpentras, Montpellier, Genoa, Milan and Burgos, Occitan universities were springing from the ground, while Jeux Floraux, or poetic contests, were everywhere reviving the ancient songs of the Troubadours, dedicated to the quest of the soul and of perfect love.
The aristocracy there, as in England, used French, but the common folk had a variety of local languages, chiefly Occitan, from which the modern Languedoc comes.
Many medieval scholars could read old languages, but Marek could speak them: Middle English, Old French, Occitan, and Latin.