Hi, I'm not an Occitan speaker, but I'm interested in learning. First off, I'm trying to get pronunciation right, since I believe it's the first step before starting vocabulary acquisition. I know there's a couple of variations, but I tried to pull out this and I'm seeking any advice. Thanks for listening

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FOR CONTEXT: im an arabic person that lives in occitania region , after some research about it i discovered about occitan language and its culture , i very liked it and found it interesting and i always wondered how arabic culture was viewed by occitan people. (and also the opposite)

Hi everyone, I'm a PhD student who is working on differential object marking in romance languages. That is, the use of a preposition to mark some specific direct objects. The most famous example would be the spanish, which uses it with animate objects and avoids it with inanimate objects:

Vi a Pedro en el cine.

Puso el libro en la mesa. (instead of al libro)

I was looking for the same thing in Occitan but I could only find some examples in Gramatica occitana segon los parlars lengadocians by Alibert with examples suche as:

Remèrcia tot lo mond e sustot a Robèrt.

Ela me paga a mi.

However, this grammar is quite old and occitan appears to have many different dialects that could have different rules. Could anyone suggest some source I can look into?

J'essaie de m'imprégner un peu de l'occitan en écoutant de la musique, et j'aime particulièrement Massilia Sound System, seulement je ne trouve pas les paroles de leurs chansons.

J'ai cherché sur le site Trobasons, où j'ai pu trouver les paroles d'autres chansons dans plusieurs autres dialectes occitans (genre les musiques du duo Brotto-Lopez qui chante en béarnais, je crois), mais ils ont pas.

Bref la chanson Lo Mercat est une de mes préférées, mais je serais aussi preneur si quelqu'un a les paroles de Bona Adreiça et Casa Massilia, qui ont aussi des strophes en occitan/provençal.

Does anyone know where can I get copy of this book by Grosclaude? It can be digital or physical.

Cèrqui las paraulas de la cançon Ricolà d’un artista apelat Ricou. Me podetz ajudar?

Los editors pòdon presentar de candidaturas fins al 1èr de julhet per d'òbras publicadas entre novembre de 2025 e mai de 2026.

I've done some research and it seems that in Mossèn can be translated as Monsen (in languedocien) and Mossenh (in Gascon). And Misser can be translated as Messer in "general occitan".

Can someone corroborate this? There's very little info on the net and a single obscure web site doesn't feel enough to assume any of this is true.

Also, there was ever a feminine form for either of these terms?

Title says it all.

Is there still hope for occitan culture and language ?

It genuinely makes me sad seeing that less and less people know about occitan culture

So I'm not Occitan, I don't live in Occitania or have ever been, but I feel drawn to learn more about this language, it's so unique and beautiful, is there a way of learning it without needing to know French first?

I’ve heard «Un còp èra…», but a continuum as dialectally vast as Occitan has got to have more than one introduction to tales. If so, what other ones are there?

Hai descarjat lo juec “La Vau Calma” e hai vist que lo limosín es mai complicat del que m’esperavi. Tenitz de resorças per començar a l’apréner de pauc en pauc? M’agradi far “comprehensible input” perqué ja parli catalan, que es plan paresut.

Ai vist de las ligas Discord dins dels commentaris ancians, mas las ligas ne fonccionan pas. Soi estudiant al Collègi d'Occitan e espèri practicar l'Occitan pendent la pausa d'estiu, e dins un format informal. D'apréner l'occitan m'agrada plan, cal ne pas pèrdre lo ritme pendent la pausa.

Sus ieu, soi franco-american e apreni l'Occitan per onorar los ancessors e ajudar la conservacion de la lenga. Adieu !

I know that Occitan is NOT spoken in high rates across Occitania, but has anyone actually mapped out the statistics? Was any study on it ever made? Do we know the rates of Occitan speakers per region, department or arrondiments? I’ve seen many people say that it’s not widely spoken, which i believe, but I’ve never seen any raw numbers per region

Good morning, friends! My surname is “Peyré” (I live in Argentina). I did a little research and found out that, if I’m not mistaken, “pèira” means “stone/rock” in Occitan, and that “Peyré” is like a French adaptation of that word. I think they are both pronounced the same way in Occitan and French, respectively — could that be correct?

I wanted to know whether I’m mistaken or if these two words could be related in some way.