What is Occitan the official language of?
Catalonia
What subdialect is spoken there?
Aranese
What is Occitan known as by native speakers?
lenga d'òc
What type of language is it?
a Romance language
Where is it spoken?
in southern France
Where else?
Italy's Occitan Valleys
Anywhere else?
yes
Where?
Monaco and Spain's Val d'Aran
What are these areas sometimes called?
Occitania
Is there controversy about the language?
yes
What kind?
about the unity of the language
What do some think?
that Occitan is a macrolanguage
What about others?
some include Catalan in this family
What do they think it is similar to?
the distance among different Occitan dialects