Occitan

Occitan, in its Languedocien dialect, is spoken by about 531,000 people across southern France and the Aran Valley of Spain. Once a major literary language of medieval Europe, it was the medium for troubadour poetry that influenced European literature. Written in the Latin alphabet, Occitan retains fusional grammar and follows a subject-verb-object order. Cultural revival movements seek to preserve the language through music, poetry, and education in bilingual schools.