Provençal

adjective

• relating to or denoting Provence or its people or language.

noun

• 1a native or inhabitant of Provence.

• 2 [mass noun] the language of Provence.

Provençal is a Romance language closely related to French, Italian, and Catalan; it is sometimes called langue d’oc (or Occitan), though strictly speaking it is one dialect of this. In the 12th-14th centuries it was the language of the troubadours and cultured speakers of southern France, but the spread of the northern dialects of French led to its decline