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le français / [lə fʁɑ̃sɛ]
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la langue française / [la lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛz]
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(‘french’ is a ‘romance language’ of the ‘indo-european family’)
(it descended from the ‘vulgar latin’ of the ‘roman empire’, as did all ‘romance languages’)
(‘french’ has evolved from ‘gallo-romance’, the ‘spoken latin’ in ‘gaul’, and more specifically in ‘northern gaul’)
(its closest relatives are the other ‘langues d’oïl’ (languages historically spoken in ‘northern france’ and in ‘southern belgium’) which ‘french’ (aka ‘francien’) has largely supplanted)
(‘french; was also influenced by ‘native celtic languages’ of ‘northern roman gaul’ like ‘gallia belgica’ and by the (‘germanic’) frankish language of the ‘post-roman frankish invaders’)
(today, owing to france’s past ‘overseas expansion’, there are numerous french-based ‘creole languages’, most notably ‘haitian creole’)
(a french-speaking ‘person’ or ‘nation’ may be referred to as francophone in both ‘english’ and ‘french’)
(‘french’ is an ‘official language’ in ’29 countries’ across ‘5 (different?) continents’, most of which are members of the organisation internationale de la francophonie (OIF), the community of ’84 countries’ which share the ‘official use’ or ‘teaching of’ french)
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(it is spoken as a ‘first language’ (in descending order of the # of speakers) in) –>
‘france’
(the canadian provinces of ‘quebec’ / ‘ontario’ / ‘new brunswick’)
(as well as other ‘francophone regions’)
‘belgium’
(‘wallonia’ + ‘brussels’)
‘western switzerland’
(cantons of ‘bern’ / ‘fribourg’ / ‘geneva’ / ‘jura’ / ‘neuchâtel’ / ‘vaud’ / ‘valais’)
‘monaco’
parts of the ‘united states’
(‘louisiana’ / ‘maine’ / ‘new hampshire’ / ‘vermont’)
(various communities elsewhere) (?)
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(in ‘2015’, approximately 40% of the ‘francophone population’ (including ‘L2’ and ‘partial speakers’) lived in ‘europe’, 35% in ‘sub-saharan africa’, 15% in ‘north africa’ and the ‘middle east’, 8% in ‘the americas’, and 1% in ‘asia” and ‘oceania’)
(‘french’ is the 4th most widely spoken ‘mother tongue’ in the ‘european union’)
(i used to think my mother was ‘french’)
(of ‘europeans’ who speak other languages natively, approximately 1/5 are able to speak ‘french’ as a ‘2nd language’)
(‘french’ is the 2nd most taught ‘foreign language’ in the ‘EU’)
(‘french’ is also the 18th most natively spoken language in the world, and is the 2nd most studied language worldwide (with ~ 120 million current learners))
(as a result of ‘french’ and ‘belgian’ colonialism from the ’16th century’ onward, ‘french’ was introduced to new territories in ‘the americas’, ‘africa’, and ‘asia’)
(most ‘2nd-language speakers’ reside in ‘francophone africa’)
(in particular ‘gabon’, ‘algeria’, ‘mauritius’, ‘senegal’, and the ‘ivory coast’)
(‘french’ is estimated to have about 76 million ‘native speakers’, and another 77 million – 110 million ‘secondary speakers’ who speak it as a ‘2nd language’ to varying degrees of ‘proficiency’ (mainly in ‘africa’))
(according to the ‘organisation internationale de la francophonie’ (OIF), approximately 274 million people worldwide are “able to speak the language” (without specifying the ‘criteria’ for this estimation or whom it encompasses))
(according to a ‘demographic projection’ led by the ‘université laval’ and the ‘réseau démographie de l’agence universitaire de la francophonie’, the total number of ‘french speakers’ will reach approximately 500 million in ‘2025’ and 650 million by ‘2050’)
(‘OIF’ estimates ‘700 million’ by ‘2050’, 80% of whom will be in ‘africa’)
(‘french’ has a long history as an ‘international language’ of ‘literature’ and ‘scientific standards’ and is a ‘primary’ or ‘secondary’ language of many ‘international organizations’ including the ‘united nations’, the ‘european union’, the ‘north atlantic treaty organization’, the ‘world trade organization’, the ‘international olympic committee’, and the ‘international committee of the ‘red cross”)
(in ‘2011’, bloomberg businessweek ranked ‘french’ the “3rd most ‘useful’ language for ‘business'”)
(after ‘english’ + ‘standard mandarin chinese’)
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