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Provençal
prouvençau (mistralian norm)
provençau (classical norm)
Native to France, Italy, Monaco
Native speakers: (350,000 cited 1990)
Language family: Indo-European (Romance)

is a variety of Occitan spoken by a minority of people in Southern France, mostly in Provence. In the English-speaking world, the term Provençal has historically also been used to refer to all of Occitan, but is now mainly understood to refer to the variety spoken in Provence.

Provençal is also the customary name given to the older version of the Occitan language used by the troubadours of medieval literature, while Old French or the langue d'oïl was limited to the northern areas of France. Thus the ISO 639-3 code for Old Occitan is [pro].

In 2007, all the ISO 639-3 codes for Occitan dialects, including [prv] for Provençal, were retired and merged into [oci] Occitan. These codes ([prv], [auv], [gsc], [lms], [lnc]) are no longer in active use, but still have the meaning assigned them when they were established in the Standard.

LINKS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proven%C3%A7al_dialect
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Proven%C3%A7al_phrasebook#Q241243
https://atlas.limsi.fr/index-en.html
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Provencal-language
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