Old Occitan (regional context)

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Old Occitan (regional context) is a Romance language historically spoken in southern France and neighboring regions, serving as the literary and administrative tongue of medieval Occitania.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Old Occitan 7
Old Occitan (regional context) canonical 1

Statements (54)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Romance language
historical language
medieval literary language
alsoKnownAs Old Provençal NERFINISHED
langue d’oc (medieval form)
ancestorOf Auvergnat NERFINISHED
Gascon NERFINISHED
Languedocien NERFINISHED
Limousin NERFINISHED
Modern Occitan NERFINISHED
Provençal NERFINISHED
Vivaro-Alpine NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Old Catalan NERFINISHED
Old French NERFINISHED
culturalRole language of courtly love poetry in medieval Europe
vehicle of troubadour culture
declineCause expansion of Old French
royal centralization in France
declinePeriod 14th century
derivedFrom Vulgar Latin NERFINISHED
floruit 11th century
12th century
13th century
hasFeature SVO basic word order
case distinction in early stages
two-gender system (masculine and feminine)
use of definite articles derived from Latin ille
historicalRegion Catalonia (in part) NERFINISHED
Occitania NERFINISHED
northern Spain
northwestern Italy
southern France NERFINISHED
influenced Galician-Portuguese lyric poetry
courtly love literary tradition
early Catalan
medieval Italian lyric poetry
ISO639-3 pro
languageFamily Occitano-Romance
standardizedIn troubadour lyric tradition
subfamilyOf Gallo-Romance languages NERFINISHED
Romance languages NERFINISHED
timePeriod High Middle Ages NERFINISHED
Late Middle Ages NERFINISHED
usedAs administrative language of medieval Occitania
literary language of medieval Occitania
usedBy medieval Occitan nobility
troubadours
urban administrations in Occitania
usedIn courtly lyric poetry
legal documents
medieval charters
municipal statutes
notarial records
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (8)

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

Ingelberga of Aquitaine language Old Occitan (regional context)
Massacre at Béziers languageOfPrimarySources Old Occitan (regional context)
this entity surface form: Old Occitan
Bertrand I of Baux languageOfUse Old Occitan (regional context)
this entity surface form: Old Occitan
William I of Baux languageUsed Old Occitan (regional context)
this entity surface form: Old Occitan
Les Baux family languageOfOrigin Old Occitan (regional context)
this entity surface form: Old Occitan
de Born nameElementLanguage Old Occitan (regional context)
this entity surface form: Old Occitan
Vivarois hasAncestor Old Occitan (regional context)
this entity surface form: Old Occitan
Vivaroalpine hasAncestor Old Occitan (regional context)
this entity surface form: Old Occitan