AHC:Occitan does not retreat to its OTL Borders

It will no doubt end up incorporating features from other Occitan varieties as well, but I think that the standard would be largely based on the speech of the capital/dominant region.
 
It will no doubt end up incorporating features from other Occitan varieties as well, but I think that the standard would be largely based on the speech of the capital/dominant region.
The Strongest Political area in Occitania in history will be either Guyenne/Aquitaine and Arelat not Toulouse.
 
What about this division of Charlemange empire?

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Marc

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Side note: Parisian French is terrible, even Parisians will admit it isn't pretty.
Best dialect of French is arguably the one spoken around Tours; clean and melodic.
 
Side note: Parisian French is terrible, even Parisians will admit it isn't pretty.
Best dialect of French is arguably the one spoken around Tours; clean and melodic.


Yes, that is basically what French was partially based around the Angevin-Tourraine and Picard as well.
 
You need a crown of the land to use and impose the language as official. Therefore, France must be weak enough not to be able to swallow the whole Occitan nation.
 
Or rather have French retreat in the Black plague.

The Plague did not distinguish ethnicity, not to mention languages. It did spare the most isolated communities, those with less commercial ties with the outside world - Albanians prospered, for example. But the French Midi or Auvergne, while provincial in character, are hardly isolated, save certain areas - the Cevennes and such.
 
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