# @itsaihistory on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DUs8-DcDl73
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/61744647-itsaihistory-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-02-13T15:04:03.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Parker Gordon (@itsaihistory) — https://gondola.cc/itsaihistory

## Caption

🏰 Old Occitan | 13th Century

What is this text? 
The Romance of Flamenca, a 13th-century poem in Old Occitan (also called Old Provençal in older scholarship), the medieval language of southern France. The manuscript survives at the Municipal Library of Carcassonne (a fortified city in southern France). Vocabulary drawn from Indiana University’s digitized Flamenca text (Paul Meyer, 1901 transcription). Pronunciation guided by TrobEu’s reconstruction of Old Occitan phonology (trob-eu.net). Dialogue was assembled from these sources for this scene.

What you’re seeing: 
A spoken reconstruction using Flamenca manuscript words rearranged into new dialogue. Set in the County of Toulouse, the heart of Occitan-speaking territory.

Full dialogue (Old Occitan):
“Lo cors mi dis qu’ieu ai desirat trop lonc temps. Mais non sabra jamais bon a mon cor.”

Modern Occitan:
“Mos cors me ditz trop longamen ai desirat. Mas saurà pas jamai de ben per mon còr.”
English: “My heart tells me I have desired too long. But it will never know good for my heart.”

Pronunciation notes:
The voice produces an English-style soft R on “cors” instead of the alveolar tap. “Dis” is pronounced with a long English “ee” and a hard “k” sound (“deeks”) instead of the expected “dees.”

Occitan today is not one sound. Gascon (southwest France) has a rhythm closer to Galician-Portuguese. Aranese (Val d’Aran, Spanish Pyrenees) has strong rolling Rs closer to Castilian. Nissart (Nice) uses the modern French uvular R and sounds the most French-adjacent of the three. The medieval form here predates these modern splits.

Discrepancies:
The voice produces an English-style soft R on “cors” instead of the alveolar tap. “Dis” is pronounced with a long English “ee” and a hard “k” sound (“deeks”) instead of the expected “dees.”

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

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