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It is spoken as a first language (in descending order of the number of speakers) in France; Canada (especially in the provinces of Quebec, Ontario, and New Brunswick); Belgium (Wallonia and the Brussels-Capital Region); western Switzerland (specifically the cantons forming the Romandy region); parts of Luxembourg; parts of the United States ...
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Non-official but significant language. While French is not...
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French of France (French: français de France) is the...
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Frankish (reconstructed endonym: * Frenkisk), also known as...
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The Romance language family (simplified). Western Romance...
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Issu de l’évolution du bas latin et du latin vulgaire vers le gallo-roman au cours du premier millénaire de l'ère chrétienne, le français, langue royale, devient une langue juridique et administrative avec l’ ordonnance de Villers-Cotterêts en 1539.
First language. A first language ( L1 ), native language, native tongue, or mother tongue is the first language a person has been exposed to from birth [1] or within the critical period. In some countries, the term native language or mother tongue refers to the language of one's ethnic group rather than the individual's actual first language.
French language. French is a Romance language (meaning that it is descended primarily from Vulgar Latin) that specifically is classified under the Gallo-Romance languages . The discussion of the history of a language is typically divided into "external history", describing the ethnic, political, social, technological, and other changes that ...
Languages of France. Of the languages of France, French is the sole official language according to the second article of the French Constitution. French, a Gallo-Romance language, is spoken by nearly the entire population of France.
- English (39%), Spanish (13%), German (6%)
- French Sign Language
French (French: français, pronounced "Fronce-eh") is a Romance language that was first spoken in France. It is also spoken in Belgium ( Wallonia ), Luxembourg, Canada ( Quebec ), Switzerland ( Romandy) and with many different countries in Africa ( Francophone Africa ). About 220 million people speak French as a native or a second language. [3] .
On 2 December 2014, the French-language Wikipedia encyclopedia became the 3rd [4] linguistic edition by number of registered users since its creation, overtaking for the first time the German edition, with 2,022,504 registered users, [5] [6] behind the English (23,300,456) [7] and Spanish (3,401,493) [8] language editions. Statistics.
