A Year in Provence

Importance of Language

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The language spoken in Provence is French, but the accent is different from other parts of France. Peter describes it as "a rich, soupy patois, emanating from somewhere at the back of the throat and passing through a scrambling process in the nasal passages before coming out as speech... demain became demang, vin became ving" (p. 6).