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Sud de France

By Caroline Conran

Published 2012

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As I mentioned in the introduction, we know that the name Languedoc means ‘the language that says oc’ (‘yes’ in Occitan) as opposed to the northern ‘language that says oyi or oui’ or Languedoïl.

Officially, Occitan, which is not a form of French at all, and has a lot in common with Latin, was the language spoken by all those who live south of the line running from the Gironde in the west, eastwards through Limoges to Vichy and beyond. But when you look closer, you find, as did Abbé Henri Grégoire in 1764, that the language of Occitan turns out to be ‘a muddle of incomprehensible dialects’.

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Aïgo-sau (Prov)

Aïgo boulido (Prov)

Bouillinade (Occ)

Brouillade (Fr)

Cagaraula (Occ)

Cagarauleta (Occ)

Castagnade (Fr)

Caillettes (Fr)

Calamar, calmar (Fr)

Carbassous (Occ)

Carthagène (Fr), Cartagena (Occ)

Châtaignons (Fr)

Courge, Citrouille, Potiron (Fr)

Cranque (Occ) or Cranc (Cat)

Estouffade (Fr), estofado (Cat)

Faisselle de Brebis (Fr)

Farçous, Farsous (Rouergue, Aveyron)

Farigoule, Frigoule (Fr)

Fricandeau (Fr)

Galère (Fr), Galera (Sp)

Gardiane, Gardianne, Gardiano (Occ)

Jols (Occ), Juels (Fr)

Mourgettes (Fr)

Mousserons (Fr)

Pouffre (Sètoise), pofre (Occ)

Réganeous (Occ)

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