https://afropedia.world/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=French_languageFrench language - Revision history2026-05-06T03:24:30ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.45.1https://afropedia.world/index.php?title=French_language&diff=8327&oldid=previmported>Kofi: Created page with "{{Infobox Language |name = French |nativename = français |pronunciation = {{IPA|[fʁɑ̃sɛ]}} |official = [[List of countries where French is an official l..."2011-05-21T15:54:21Z<p>Created page with "{{Infobox Language |name = French |nativename = français |pronunciation = {{IPA|[fʁɑ̃sɛ]}} |official = [[List of countries where French is an official l..."</p>
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|name = French<br />
|nativename = français<br />
|pronunciation = {{IPA|[fʁɑ̃sɛ]}}<br />
|official = [[List of countries where French is an official language|30 countries where used officially]]<br />
|states = see [[#Geographic distribution|below]]<br />
|speakers = native speakers: 190 million,<ref name="tlfq">[http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/francophonie/francophonie.htm Francophonie<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> total (both native and second language) speakers: 265 million-<ref> [http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/reprints/weber/rep-weber.htm The World's 10 Most Influential Languages] ''Top Languages'' Retrieved 2011-04-11</ref> 270 million<ref> [http://www.francophonie.org/IMG/pdf/Synthese-Langue-Francaise-2010.pdf La langue francaise dans le monde 2010] ''[[La Francophonie]]'' Retrieved 2010-04-14</ref><br />
|iso1 = fr <br />
|iso2 = fri<br />
|iso2b = fre<br />
|iso2t = fra<br />
|iso3 = fra<br />
|lingua=51-AAA-i<br />
|familycolor = Indo-European<br />
|fam1 = [[Indo-European]]<br />
|fam2 = [[Italic languages|Italic]]<br />
|fam3 = [[Romance languages|Romance]]<br />
|fam4 = [[Italo-Western]]<br />
|fam5 = [[Western Romance]]<br />
|fam6 = [[Gallo-Iberian]]<br />
|fam7 = [[Gallo-Romance]]<br />
|fam8 = [[Gallo-Rhaetian]]<br />
|fam9 = [[Oïl]]<br />
|script = [[Latin alphabet]] ([[French alphabet|French variant]])<br />
|nation = {{Collapsible list |titlestyle=font-weight:normal; background:transparent; text-align:left;|title=[[List of countries where French is an official language|30 countries]]|<br />
{{flag|Belgium}}|<br />
{{flag|Benin}}|<br />
{{flag|Burkina Faso}}|<br />
{{flag|Burundi}}|<br />
{{flag|Cameroon}}|<br />
{{flag|Canada}}|<br />
{{flag|Central African Republic}}|<br />
{{flag|Chad}}|<br />
{{flag|Comoros}}|<br />
{{flag|Côte d'Ivoire}}|<br />
{{flag|Democratic Republic of the Congo}}|<br />
{{flag|Djibouti}}|<br />
{{flag|Equatorial Guinea}}|<br />
{{flag|France}}|<br />
{{flag|Gabon}}|<br />
{{flag|Guinea}}|<br />
{{flag|Haiti}}|<br />
{{flag|Luxembourg}}|<br />
{{flag|Madagascar}}|<br />
{{flag|Mali}}|<br />
{{flag|Monaco}}|<br />
{{flag|Niger}}|<br />
{{flag|Republic of the Congo}}|<br />
{{flag|Rwanda}}|<br />
{{flag|Senegal}}|<br />
{{flag|Seychelles}}|<br />
{{flag|Switzerland}}|<br />
{{flag|Togo}}|<br />
{{flag|Vanuatu}}|<br />
}}<br />
<br />{{Collapsible list |titlestyle=font-weight:normal; background:transparent; text-align:left;|title=[[List of countries where French is an official language#Administrative and/or cultural|Administrative/cultural]]|<br />
{{flag|Algeria}}|<br />
{{flag|Morocco}}|<br />
{{flag|Mauritius}}|<br />
{{flag|Mauritania}}|<br />
{{flag|Tunisia}}|<br />
}}<br />
<br />{{Collapsible list |titlestyle=font-weight:normal; background:transparent; text-align:left;|title=[[List of countries where French is an official language#Dependent entities|14 dependent entities]]|<br />
{{flag|Aosta Valley}}|<br />
{{Flag icon|France}} [[Clipperton]]|<br />
{{flag|French Southern and Antarctic Lands}}|<br />
{{flag|French Polynesia}}|<br />
{{flag|Guernsey}}|<br />
{{flag|Jersey}}|<br />
{{flag|Mayotte}}|<br />
{{flag|New Caledonia}}|<br />
{{Flag icon|India}} [[Puducherry]]|<br />
{{flag|Saint-Barthélemy}}|<br />
{{flag|Saint-Martin}}|<br />
{{flag|Saint-Pierre and Miquelon}}|<br />
{{flag|Wallis and Futuna}}|<br />
}}<br />[[List of international organisations which have French as an official language|Numerous international organisations]]<br />
|agency = [[Académie française]] (French Academy)<br />
|map=[[File:New-Map-Francophone World.PNG|center|250px|border]]<br />
{{legend|#0049a2|Regions where it is mother tongue}}<br />
{{legend|#006aFF|Regions where it is official language}}<br />
{{legend|#8ec3ff|Regions where it is second language}}<br />
{{legend|#00ff00|Regions where it is a minority language}}<br />
}}<br />
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{{French language}}<br />
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'''French''' ({{lang|fr|''français''}}, {{IPA-fr|fʁɑ̃sɛ|IPA}}) is a [[Romance language]] spoken as a first language by most people from [[France]], French-speaking [[Switzerland]], [[Wallonia]] and [[Brussels]] in [[Belgium]], [[Monaco]], and the regions of [[Quebec]] and [[Acadia]] in [[Canada]], as well as minorities elsewhere. Second language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts of the world, the largest numbers of which reside in [[African French|Francophone Africa]],<ref name=2007_report>{{fr icon}} [http://www.amazon.fr/dp/2098821778 ''La Francophonie dans le monde 2006–2007''] published by the [[Organisation internationale de la Francophonie]]. [http://www.nathan.fr Nathan], [[Paris]], 2007.</ref> and the highest proportions being situated in [[Gabon]] (80%)<ref name=2007_report /> [[Mauritius]] (72.7%)<ref name=2007_report /> and [[Côte d'Ivoire]] (70%).<ref name=2007_report /> French is estimated as having 110 million<ref name="tlfq">[http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/francophonie/francophonie.htm Francophonie<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> native speakers and 190 million second language speakers.<ref> [http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/reprints/weber/rep-weber.htm The World's 10 Most Influential Languages] ''Top Languages'' Retrieved 2011-04-11</ref> Additionally, French is the second-most studied foreign language in the world, after English.<br />
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