Editing Languedocien dialect (section)

== Variations ==
[[File:Sumien.jpg|thumb|317x317px|Dialects and sub-dialects of Occitan according to D. Sumien<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Sumien|first=Domergue|title=Classificacion dei dialèctes occitans|year=2009}}</ref>]]
Languedocien encompasses a number of variations, the classification of which is still ongoing.

[[Jules Ronjat]] gives three sub-groups:<ref name=":0" />

* Eastern Languedocien dialects: Alésien, Montpelliérain, Lodévois, and Bitterrois (the latter tending towards Western Languedocien).
* Western Languedocien dialects: Narbonnais, Carcassonnais, Toulousain (including Fuxéen and Capcinois), Albigeois, Montalbanais, Agenais (the latter tending towards Guyennais and Gascon).
* Guyennais dialects: Rouergat, Gévaudanais (Lozère, Cévennes), Quercinois, Aurillacois, Sarladais, Bergeracois.
* He also classes Bas-Vivarois as a Languedocien dialect but separate from the above categories.

[[Louis Alibert]] uses four sub-groups:<ref>{{Cite book |last=Alibert|first=Louis |title=Gramatica occitana segon los parlars lengadocians |year=1976 |publisher=IEC |location=Montpellier |isbn=978-2-85910-274-6}}</ref>

* Eastern dialects: Cévenol, Montpelliérain, Bitterois.
* Southern dialects: Toulousain, Fuxéen, Donezanais, Narbonnais, "Central" (Carcassonais), Agenais.
* Western dialects: Bergeracois, Villeneuvois, Sarladais, Haut-Quercinois, Bas-Quercinois, Albigeois.
* Northern dialects: Aurillacois, Rouergat, Gévaudanais.

[[Domergue Sumien]] defines the categories thus:<ref name=":1" />

* Eastern dialects: Cévenol, Montpelliérain.
* Southern dialects: Toulousain, Fuxéen, Donezanais, Narbonnais, Carcassonais.
* Western dialects: Bas-Quercinois, Albigeois, Agenais, Bitterois.
* Northern dialects: Bergeracois, Villeneuvois, Sarladais, Haut-Quercinois, Aurillacois, Rouergat, Gévaudanais, Bas-Vivarois.

In their supra-dialectal classification of Occitan, [[Pierre Bec]] and Domergue Sumien divide Languedocien into one or two supra-dialectal groups:

* Pierre Bec places Southern Languedocien dialects in the Aquitanian-Pyrenean group and the rest of the Languedocien dialects in the Central Occitanian group.
* Domergue Sumien classifies these Languedocien dialects similarly, but groups both Aquitanian-Pyrenean and Central Occitanian under the title of Pre-Iberian.
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File:Sumien supradialectal.jpg|Supradialectal classification of Occitan according to D. Sumien<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sumien|first=Domergue|title=La standardisation pluricentrique de l'occitan: nouvel enjeu sociolinguistique, développement du lexique et de la morphologie|publisher=Brepols|year=2006|location=Turnhout}}</ref>
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