Sociolinguistic Artifacts

This YouTube Short summarizes the history of Occitan, a Romance language that developed in Southern France, so while the two languages are similar, they do vary, especially in their word for yes, which is where the other name for Occitan comes from, langue d'oc, compared to Parisian French, which is langue d'oil, which oil eventually became oui. The video then discusses the French government's repression of the language, as they attempted to standardize Parisian French across France to unify the state.