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Are Occitan, Provençal and Catalan mutually intelligible?

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First of all, Occitan and Provençal are the same language but they're spelled differently and have their dialectal differences. Provençal uses French-like spelling, whereas Occitan and Catalan look more similar when written. As a Catalan speaker ... read more

So Provençal as an Occitan dialect is intelligible for any other Occitan speaker. The distance is a bit longer with Catalan, but Catalan is an Ausbau language that was created from Occitan at an old stage of the language history. read more

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