AHC: Make sigmatic articles (salat) prominent in all Eastern Catalan dialects

Another sample of alternate Standard Catalan, the Chapter 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
Tots ets éssers human neixen lliures i iguals en dignitat i en drets. Són dotats de raó i de consciència, i han de comportar-se frenament ets uns amb ets altres.
 
The Catalonian national anthem:
Ets Segadors
Catalunya triomfant,
tornarà a ser rica i plena.
Endarrera aquesta gent
tan ufana i tan superba.

Tornada:
Bon cop de falç!
Bon cop de falç, defensors de sa terra!
Bon cop de falç!

Ara és hora, segadors.
Ara és hora d'estar alerta.
Per quan vingui un altre juny,
esmolem ben bé ses eines.

(Tornada)

Que tremoli s'enemic,
en veient sa nostra ensenya.
Com fem caure espigues d'or,
quan convé seguem cadenes.

(Tornada)
 
The most obvious PoD is having Catalan never diverges as much it did IOTL from Occitan continuum, up to form an ansbau language.
Having a lasting Aragonese-Occitan political continuum could only help, of course.

If in this situation, Mediterranean policy of Aragon knows a slight northern displacement, making OTL Lengadocian coast more important (following a Barcelona/Montpelhèr/Provença line), the influence on central Occitan article systems (central ITTL, including Catalan at least longer) could make it, making salat system being more used at least along the coastline and having Barcelonese *Occitan an important norm (here at least for article system) that would influe on other relativly easily.

It's a bit of cheating of course, at you won't have exactly Eastern Catalan dialects, but almost all Mediterranean dialect of *Occitan concerned.

I don't think it would eventually take on all the coastal speeches (actually, I think it would probably be limited to most dynamic and urban settings), and eventually the "regular" system could likely prevail, but I couldn't see a best chance for the goal you search.
 
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