Editing Occitan language (section)

====Features of Occitan as a whole====
Examples of pan-Occitan features shared with French, but not Catalan:
* Latin {{smallcaps|ū}} [uː] (Vulgar Latin {{IPA|/u/}}) changed to {{IPA|/y/}}, as in French (Lat. {{smallcaps|dv̄rvm}} &gt; Oc. ''dur'').
* Vulgar Latin {{IPA|/o/}} changed to {{IPA|/u/}}, first in unstressed syllables, as in Eastern Catalan (Lat. {{smallcaps|romānvs}} > Oc. ''roman'' [ruˈma]), then in stressed syllables (Lat. {{smallcaps|flōrem}} > Oc. ''flor'' [fluɾ]).

Examples of pan-Occitan features shared with Catalan, but not French:
* Stressed Latin {{smallcaps|a}} was preserved (Lat. {{smallcaps|mare}} > Oc. ''mar'', Fr. ''mer'').
* Intervocalic -{{smallcaps|t}}- was lenited to {{IPA|/d/}} rather than lost (Lat. {{smallcaps|vitam}} > Oc. ''vida'', Fr. ''vie'').

Examples of pan-Occitan features not shared with Catalan or French:
* Original {{IPA|/aw/}} preserved.
* Final {{IPA|/a/}} becomes {{IPA|/ɔ/}} (note in [[Valencian language|Valencian]] (Catalan), {{IPA|/ɔ/}} may appear in word-final unstressed position, in a process of [[vowel harmony]]).
* Low-mid {{IPA|/ɛ/}} and {{IPA|/ɔ/}} diphthongized before velars. {{IPA|/ɛ/}} generally becomes {{IPA|/jɛ/}}; {{IPA|/ɔ/}} originally became {{IPA|/wɔ/}} or {{IPA|/wɛ/}}, but has since usually undergone further fronting (e.g. to {{IPA|[ɥɛ], [ɥɔ], [jɔ], [œ], [ɛ], [ɥe], [we]}}, etc.). Diphthongization also occurred before palatals, as in French and Catalan.
* Various assimilations in consonant clusters (e.g. {{angle bracket|cc}} in ''Occitan'', pronounced {{IPA|/utsiˈta/}} in conservative Languedocien).