Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> This may be a little difficult since Narbonósc really replaces Occitan (it is a
> langue d'oc, just more successful in taking over the rest of the south of the
> country :) ). However, Narbonósc isn't monolithic either, so it may have some
> (older) dialects that are more Occitan-looking than it is.
What matters is that certain lexical items like "amor" /amur/ and "trobador"
/trubadur/ are preserved so that they can spread to other langs. Not
necessarily the spellings, of course, which are *here's* Standard Occitan.
>> and
>> it needs to remain the language of Courtly Love,
>
> Which one, French or Narbonese? :)
For the whole of Western Europe, really.
> Which ones are you talking about? Maybe we can keep the etymology, and just
> replace the word "Occitan" with the word "Narbonósc" :) . As I see it, earlier
> forms of Narbonósc looked quite like Occitan.
Oc!
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