Editing Languedocien dialect (section)

{{Short description|Occitan dialect}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}}
{{redirect|Languedocien|other uses|Languedoc}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Languedocian
| nativename       = ''lengadocian''
| states           = France
| region           = [[Southern France]]
| speakers         = 5,000
| date             = no date
| ref              = <ref>{{e15|lnc|Languedocien}}</ref>
| familycolor      = Indo-European
| fam2             = [[Italic languages|Italic]]
| fam3             = [[Latino-Faliscan languages|Latino-Faliscan]]
| fam4             = [[Latin]]
| fam5             = [[Romance languages|Romance]]
| fam6             = [[Italo-Western languages|Italo-Western]]
| fam7             = [[Western Romance languages|Western Romance]]
| fam8             = [[Gallo-Romance languages|Gallo-Romance]]
| fam9             = [[Occitano-Romance languages|Occitano-Romance]]
| fam10             = [[Occitan language|Occitan]]
| map              = Lengadocians.jpg
| mapcaption       = The extent of Languedocien in the Occitan area
|iso3=lnc
|iso3comment=(retired); subsumed in {{code|oci}}
| ietf             = {{wikidata|property|references|P305}}
| glotto           = lang1309
| glottorefname    = Languedocian Occitan
}}

'''Languedocien''' (French name, {{IPA|fr|lɑ̃ɡdɔsjɛ̃|pron|LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-languedocien.wav}}), '''Languedocian''', or '''Lengadocian''' ({{IPA|oc|ˌleŋɡɔðuˈsja}}) is an [[Occitan language|Occitan]] dialect spoken in rural parts of southern France such as [[Languedoc]], [[Rouergue]], [[Quercy]], [[Agenais]] and Southern [[Périgord]]. It is sometimes also called Languedocien-Guyennais.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Ronjat|first=Jules|title=Grammaire istorique [sic] des parlers provençaux modernes|publisher=Société des langues romanes|year=1930–1941|location=Montpellier}}</ref> Due to its central position among the dialects of Occitan, it is often used as a basis for a Standard Occitan.<ref>Claudi Balaguer, "Languedocian: A Central and Interface Dialect within Occitan", in John Partridge (ed.), [https://books.google.com/books?id=xF4nBwAAQBAJ&q=Languedocian&pg=PA137 ''Interfaces in Language''], Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010</ref>

About 10% of the population of Languedoc are fluent in the language (about 300,000), and another 20% (600,000) "have some understanding" of the language. All speak French as their first or second language.