Indo-European · ISO 639-3 oci · oc
Occitan (post 1500) Language occitan
Occitan (post 1500) is an Indo-European language spoken by about 2.0 million people in 2 countries. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Occitan (post 1500) is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Italic
- Latino-Faliscan
- Latinic
- Imperial Latin
- Romance
- Italo-Western Romance
- Western Romance
- Shifted Western Romance
- Southwestern Shifted Romance
- Occitanic
- Occitan (post 1500)
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Occitan (post 1500) language
Occitan (post 1500) (occitan) is spoken by about 2.0 million people, which makes it the 308th most spoken language in the world — just behind Lomwe (2.0 million) and ahead of Piemontese (2.0 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Occitanic group within the Italic branch.
Where is Occitan (post 1500) spoken?
Occitan (post 1500) is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in France (2.1 million) and Spain (4,728).
Share of the population that speaks Occitan (post 1500): France 3% (2.1 million) and Spain <0.1% (4,728).
Occitan (post 1500) is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Spain.
Writing system and status
Occitan (post 1500) is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician, Asturian, Papiamento and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 oc, ISO 639-3 oci.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.