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Old Provençal
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English
Old Occitan
Proper noun
Old Provençal
en dated _ in _ linguistics Romance language spoken in the south of France which is considered the origin of modern Provençal, also known as Occitan.
en Old Occitan<q:now more common>
en 1872 w:Edward Everett Hale Christian Examiner Old and New VI 471 https://books.google.com/books?id=bjXZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA471&dq=%22Old+Proven%C3%A7al%22&hl=&cd=17&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Old%20Proven%C3%A7al%22&f=false The old Provençal tongue, beloved of knights and troubadours, and forever associated in our minds with romance and chivalry, had become so debased by low singers of tavern songs, that its poetry was only “a riot of coarse speech, which had slain modesty in the ears of the young.”
Translations
Dutch: nl Oudprovençaals n
German: de Altprovenzalisch n
Polish: pl język staroprowansalski m
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