France News » Occitania News France » Occitania » Education: ÒCTele, a private TV station broadcasting in Occitan brings the language to France's public space
News channel or source: https://globalvoices.org/2023/05/19/octele-a-private-tv-station-broadcasting-in-occitan-brings-the-language-to-frances-public-space/
Published on: Thursday 18 May 2023
In southern France, a private TV initiative takes the safeguarding of the Occitan language to the next level by mainstreaming Occitan content for all age-category audiences over traditional and social ...
News France » Occitania » Education: Press freedom also means media in indigenous languages: The case of France's Occitan
News channel or source: https://globalvoices.org/2023/05/09/press-freedom-also-means-media-in-indigenous-languages-the-case-of-frances-occitan/
Published on: Tuesday 09 May 2023
Given that the overwhelming majority of Occitan speakers today are new speakers — that is children, younger people and adults who learnt or are learning it besides their native French — it is ...
News France » Occitania » Education: ‘Our government sees it as cute but unimportant’: the musicians keeping France’s Occitan language alive
News channel or source: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/05/our-government-sees-it-as-cute-but-unimportant-the-musicians-keeping-frances-occitan-language-alive
Published on: Wednesday 05 July 2023
Post-revolutionary France tried to stamp it out, but working class communities kept speaking it. Now Occitan powers a vivacious and political European music scene It’s May Day in Marseille, and beyond ...