I thought you would be interested to read this article from The Times

[fmhult at dolphin.upenn.edu]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2344455,00.html
                 Fight is on as language of survival finds a voice Speakers of Occitan have begun a campaign to preserve the dialect which is spoken as a first language by two million people
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