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The Troubadours—More Than Singers of Love SongsAwake!—1998 | February 8
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They were poet-musicians who wrote in what was the most refined of all the vernacular Romance languages. It was called langue d’oca—the common tongue of roughly all of France south of the Loire River and of the bordering regions of Italy and Spain.
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The Troubadours—More Than Singers of Love SongsAwake!—1998 | February 8
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a The Latin inherited from the Roman legions, called Roman, had by that time developed into two vernacular languages in France: Southern France spoke the langue d’oc (also known as Occitan, or Provençal), while northern France spoke the langue d’oïl (an early form of French sometimes called Old French). These two languages were distinguished, one from the other, by the word they used for yes. In the south it was oc (from Latin hoc); in the north, oïl (from Latin hoc ille), which became the modern French oui.
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