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> Occitan is now a dead language

What?? This is completely false. There are hundreds of thousands of native Occitan speakers alive today.

LOL, no. Most of the few native speakers I knew are dead. The rest is people who learn a made-up language in school as a foreign language.

How is who you know relevant?

I don't know any Hungarian speakers; can we conclude that Hungarian is a dead language?

The many Occitan schools in my region are proving you wrong.

Existence of language schools doesn't prove existence of native speakers.

The existence of native speakers proves the existence of native speakers?

This isn't fake news, it's well documented -- every recent study on Occitan has estimated at least 100,000 native speakers, on the very low end.

Yes, it's a very endangered language, and it might be dead in a few decades, but it's not dead yet.

BTW, this only applies to France. In Val d'Aran for example (in Spain) it is an everyday language that doesn't seem at any risk of disappearing.