Language code: oc

Technical information about ISO 639 language code oc

The table below provides technical details for the Occitan language, designated by the oc code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

oc

Name

Official

Occitan

Native

Occitan

Family
Romance
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
GasconLanguedocianProvençalLimousinAuvergnatVivaro-Alpine
Related languages
CatalanFranco-ProvençalFrenchSpanish
Key facts
Medieval troubadours composed poetry and song primarily in OccitanThe term "Occitan" comes from the way the language says "yes"—oc—contrasted with oil > oui in northern FranceIt keeps separate Latin vowels /o/ and /u/ that merged in FrenchOrthography sometimes employs a middle dot (·) to show when s and h are pronounced separately, as in s·hUNESCO lists Occitan as a severely endangered language
Sample phrase

Adieu, cossí vas?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

Occitan belongs to the Indo-European language family, specifically to the Romance subgroup. It is one of the official languages in the Val d'Aran in Catalonia, Spain, and is also spoken in several regions of France, including Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Centre-Val de Loire, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Occitania, and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. It is written using the Latin alphabet (Occitan alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 1 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

7.1K

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Occitan speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

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