Indo-European family
Occitan
1400 CE – today Living
Occitan (1400 CE – today) is a living Indo-European language. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Italic → … → Vulgar Latin → Old Occitan → Occitan.
See Occitan on the interactive map- Speakers
- 200K (200,000)
- ISO 639-3
- oci
- Glottocode
- occi1239
Spoken in southern France, the Val d'Aran and the Occitan Valleys of Italy. Speaker estimates range from about 100,000 to several hundred thousand.
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
- Proto-Italicc. 1,500 BCE – 700 BCE
- Proto-Latino-Faliscanc. 1,000 BCE – 700 BCE
- Old Latinc. 700 BCE – 100 BCE
- Latin100 BCE – 300 CE
- Vulgar Latin300 CE – 800 CE
- Old Occitanc. 900 CE – 1400 CE
- Occitan1400 CE – today