Limousin Occitan

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Limousin Occitan is a regional variety of the Occitan language traditionally spoken in the Limousin area of central France.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Limousin Occitan canonical 4
Auvergnat Occitan 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Occitan dialect
regional language variety
closelyRelatedTo Auvergnat Occitan
Languedocien Occitan
country France
dialectOf Occitan
surface form: Occitan language
documentedSince Middle Ages
endangeredStatus definitely endangered
glottologCode limo1242
hasAlternativeName Lemosin
Lemosin dialect
hasCulturalAssociation Limousin regional identity
Occitan cultural revival movements
hasDialect Brivaud
Lemosin central
Marchois
Nontronnais
hasGenderSystem masculine and feminine
hasLexicalFeature vocabulary intermediate between Auvergnat and Languedocien
hasLiteraryUse regional poetry and prose
hasMorphologicalFeature use of postposed definite articles in some syntactic contexts
hasNumberSystem singular and plural
hasPhonologicalFeature distinction between open and close mid vowels
palatalization of Latin CL, PL, FL clusters
hasStandardization regional orthographic norms based on classical Occitan
hasSVOOrder yes
historicallySpokenBy peasants and artisans of Limousin
historicalRegion County of Limousin
influencedBy French
surface form: French language
isoException covered by macrolanguage oc
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Romance languages
macrolanguage oc
partOf Northern Occitan
recognizedBy French regional language movements
region Limousin
sharesFeatureWith other Occitan varieties
spokenIn Limousin
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
central France
status minority language
regional language
subdivisionOf Occitan
surface form: Occitan language
taughtIn some schools in Limousin region
usedBy traditional rural communities in Limousin
usedIn folk songs
local toponymy
traditional oral literature
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Conselh de la Lenga Occitana regulatesDialect Limousin Occitan
this entity surface form: Auvergnat Occitan
Limousin traditionalLanguage Limousin Occitan
Aurillac historicalLanguage Limousin Occitan
this entity surface form: Auvergnat Occitan
Auvergnat closelyRelatedTo Limousin Occitan
Occitania hasDialect Limousin Occitan