Occitans
romance-speaking Mediterranean ethnic group
The Occitans (Occitan: occitans) are a Romance-speaking Mediterranean ethnic group. They come from the historical region of Occitania (southern France, northeastern Spain and northwestern Italy).[1][2][3][4][5]
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| Total population | |
| c. 17 million | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Languages | |
| Occitan (native); French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan (as a result of language shift) | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity (Roman Catholicism, Protestantism) | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Catalans, French, Ligurians |
Just to clarify: virtually everyone in France speaks French. Some speak another language also. Occitans is one of the traditional other languages.
References change
- ↑ Pèire Bec, "Occitan", in Rebecca Posner, John N. Green eds. 1982. Language and philology in Romance. Walter de Gruyter.
Reprint Volume 3 Language and Philology in Romance. 2011. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. Retrieved 24 Nov. 2015, from http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/48412 Archived 2018-06-20 at the Wayback Machine - ↑ Gregory Hanlon, Confession and Community in Seventeenth-century France: Catholic and Protestant Coexistence in Aquitaine, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993, p. 20
- ↑ Robert Gildea, France since 1945, Oxford University Press, 1996
- ↑ Peter McPhee, "Frontiers, Ethnicity and Identity in the French Revolution: Catalans and Occitans" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, in Ian Coller, Helen Davies, and Julie Kalman, eds, French History and Civilisation: Papers from the George Rudé Seminar Archived 2016-11-30 at the Wayback Machine, Vol. 1, Melbourne: The George Rudé Society, 2005
- ↑ Jeffrey Cole, Ethnic Groups of Europe: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, 2011
