Yesterday I confused a friend because I called him sir and he was like ??? why are you calling me sir we’re friends? And i had to explain that sir is not a word its a feeling. my mac shutting down for no reason is sir. My cat is sir. My pair of jeans is sir. An email that finds me unwell is sir. Two bugs outside my window are sirs.
Occitan is a Romance minority language closely related to Catalan spoken across four sovereign states: Southern France, Spain, Italy and Monaco. Although it has never been legally recognised as a political entity, this area is historically known as Occitania.
Occitan is called both occitan and lenga d’òc by its native speakers, and it is currently split into six main varieties (or dialects):
Gascon,which includes Bearnese and Aranese, spoken in France and Spain respectively
Languedocien (spoken in France)
Limousin (France)
Auvergnat (France)
Provençal, which includes Nissart, spoken in Nice, France
Vivaro-Alpine (Occitan Valleys and Guardia Piemontese, Calabria, Italy)
It should be noted that, because Catalan has a high degree of mutual intelligibility with Occitan, it was considered a dialect of Occitan until the 19th century. At any rate, the two languages are sometimes grouped together in the Occitano-Romance subgroup of Romance languages.
