The Occitànian Team at the EUROPEADA

the team has taken part in the tournament three times so far, most recently in 2016.

The Occitanians in France

The spoken dialects of Occitan are centuries older and appeared as soon as the 8th century, at least, revealed in toponyms or in Occitanized words left in Latin manuscripts, for instance. Occitan is a separate Romance language, also called langue d'oc. The language is disseminated over a wide area encompassing the whole south of France, Monaco, Spain´s Val d´Aran and Italy´s Occitan Valleys. Collectively, these regions are sometimes reffered to unofficially as Occitania, the Occitania area covers more than 190 000 km². According to the 1999 census, there are 610,000 native speakers and another million persons with some exposure to the language. However, in France, Occitan is still not recognized as an official language, as the status of French has been constitutionally protected since 1992, and Occitan activists want the French government to adopt Occitan as the second official language for seven regions representing the South of France.

Information in occitan language:

L’occitan o lenga d’òc es una lenga romanica parlada en Occitània, çò es: dins lo tèrç sud de França (siá dins 9 regions o 39 departaments de l’Estat francés), a Mónegue, dins las Valadas Occitanas en Itàlia (e mai dins la localitat de La Gàrdia en Calàbria) e dins la Val d’Aran, qu’aparten politicament al Principat de Catalonha. L’occitan coneguèt son epòca daurada entre los sègles XI e XIII gràcias a sa literatura e subretot las composicions dels trobadors que coneguèron de succès per tota Euròpa. Es una lenga fòrça similara al catalan.
Occitània es un espaci situat entre mar Grana (l’ocean Atlantic tanben apelat peugue en gascon) e mar Nòstra (la mar Mediterranèa), dels Aups e del Massís Central als Pirenèus, en Euròpa Occidentala. Son clima es temperat. Sa populacion es de 16 366 984 abitants. Sa superfícia es d’aperaquí 190 000 o 200 000 km2.