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Belasco, Simon – French Review, 1990
A discussion of Occitan, a Romance language spoken in a large portion of France, looks at the history; irregular characteristics; orthographic and morphophonemic variations across dialects; and present status, which is in danger of becoming extinct because of neglect, of the language. (MSE)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, French