#occitan

[yvanspijk]

Galactic latte

The English words galaxy and latte are etymologically related. Galaxy stems from the Ancient Greek word for 'milk', gála, which has the same Proto-Indo-European ancestor as Latin lactem, which became latte in Italian.

The Milky Way was named after its milky glowing band in the night sky. Galaxy used to mean 'Milky Way', but it became a word for any star system when it turned out ours is not the only one in the universe.

[useless-catalanfacts]

17th of June is the Hèsta d'Aran (Day of the Aran Valley). Happy hèsta to our Aranese friends! ✠

If you'd like to learn more about this little piece of the Occitan nation in Catalonia, you can read more about what this holiday commemorates in this post, and you can learn more about why Aran became part of Catalonia in this post.

And for people who understand Catalan, the man in the video is one of the hosts of País invisible, a podcast dedicated to Occitan culture explained in Catalan.

[thebellekeys]

Occitan Language

Tan m'abelís vòstra cortesa demanda, que ieu non-pòdi ni vòli m'amagar de vos.

– Dante Alighieri writing as Arnaut Daniel (1180–1200 AD) in Purgatorio

[andromacheofappalachia]

Old Guard Headcanon #012: Booker teaches Nile Occitan after she learns that it's his first language, endangered and dying, and that children were punished for speaking it merely decades ago. He's hesitant at first, but she insists that he teaches her so he doesn't have to speak it alone to himself.

[lexifranca]

i think starting to learn french was just the start of my downfall

ever since I've begun going down the Romance Rabbit Hole™ of "what if I learn Occitan?" "what if I learn Norman?" "what if I learn Catalan?" "What if I learn Walloon?" etc etc and it's great but also awful because WHERE am I gonna find resources to learn...like...Mirandese??

anyways one day I'll be able to speak to every single person from Portugal to Belgium just you WAIT

[wordarttmn]

[mokanti]

Why do you prefer being referred to by your ethnic identity rather than your national identity?

It feels very weird to be just called "French and Moroccan", too proud to be called French-Moroccan, largely prefer being referred to as "Auvergnat and Chleuh" because this is what I am, this is my heritage and my ethnicity.

Even "Occitan and Amazigh" is largely better for me than "French and Moroccan".

I really hate it when people say... "Stop saying that you're Auvergnat, just say that you're French, you're wasting your time!!" or "What's a Chleuh, oh wait, you're Moroccan, that means you're Arab!" and so it forces me to say that i'm "French-Moroccan" which feels very alienating to me.

Even if I'm proud of being French and Moroccan, I'm more proud of my mixed ethnic heritage, especially since I know so much about my family and what are their traditions, the language they spoke and where they precisely come from, it makes no sense for me to agglutinate my heritage to just a national label.

[hyperions-fate]

Ieu sui Arnaut qu'amas l'aura E chatz la lebre ab lo bou E nadi contra suberna. I am Arnaut who gather the wind And ride the ox to hunt the hare And I swim against the tide.

Arnaut Daniel (Trans. W.S. Merwin, The Mays of Ventadorn)