Saagar Asnani reads an Occitan poem

In his research, UC Berkeley Ph.D. candidate Saagar Asnani looks at music manuscripts from between the 12th and 14th centuries in medieval France. He says only recently have scholars begun to use a wider variety of media and artistic expressions as a way to study language. Here, he reads a poem in the medieval language of Occitan.
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The intonation and some words sounds akin to Portuguese to me - could it be, considering their proximity?