# @itsaihistory on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-01-30T16:33:58.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Parker Gordon (@itsaihistory) — https://gondola.cc/itsaihistory

## Caption

🕯️ Early 12th Century | Old Catalan

What is this text?
The Homilies d’Organyà are a medieval Catalan sermon manuscript, often dated to the late AD 1100s or early AD 1200s. They are among the earliest surviving prose written in Catalan, created so ordinary people could understand teaching in the local language rather than Latin.

What you’re seeing:
A spoken reconstruction inspired by Homilies d’Organyà wording. The dialogue uses words taken verbatim from a Generalitat de Catalunya excerpt, adapted into a tighter two-line delivery.

Full dialogue (Old Catalan):
“Tornad vos a mi, ab tot vostre cor z ab tota vostra pensa. 
No dix mica ab la meitat del cor mas ab tot lo cor.”

Modern Catalan (translation):
“Torneu-vos a mi, amb tot el vostre cor i amb tot el vostre pensament.
No va dir pas amb la meitat del cor, sinó amb tot el cor.”

English (translation):
“Return to me, with all your heart and with all your thought. 
He did not say with half the heart, but with the whole heart.”

Pronunciation notes:
Old Catalan (c. AD 1100-1200) sounded different from modern Catalan. In this reconstruction:
“Dix” is pronounced /diʃ/ (“deesh”), reflecting the medieval spelling where “x” likely represented a palatal fricative /ʃ/ (similar to “sh” in English), derived from the Latin “dixit.” This is distinct from modern Catalan pronunciation.

Final “r” in “cor” is rendered as a clear alveolar tap, avoiding the uvular (back-of-throat) quality common in modern French or some modern Catalan dialects.

Old Catalan was closer to its Latin roots and shared features with contemporary Occitan. Listeners familiar only with modern Catalan may find this reconstruction unfamiliar. That difference is intentional and reflects the 800+ year gap between this text and today’s spoken language.

🎥 All visuals are original AI-assisted recreations produced by itsaihistory for educational and documentary purposes.

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