They spoke dozens of regional tongues like Occitan, Breton, Alsatian, Basque, and more. This video explores how these languages formed, why they declined, and how some are still fighting to survive ...

When it comes to languages, and minority languages in particular, the vocabulary employed often arouses debate due to the political positions of and the state of relations between linguistic ...

The Constitutional Council of France struck down a bill Friday permitting schools to teach the majority of the day in regional languages such as Basque, Breton, and Corsican for being unconstitutional ...

Given that the overwhelming majority of Occitan speakers today are new speakers — that is children, younger people and adults who learnt or are learning it besides their native French — it is ...

"A long, long, long time ago, France was called Gaul and the French, the Gauls." Does this phrase ring a bell? Perhaps set to music and sung by the Belgian Annie Cordy (1928-2020) in 1978, it would ...