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The Francophonie or Francophone world is the whole body of people and organisations around the world who use the French language regularly for private or public purposes. The term was coined by Onésime Reclus [ 1 ] in 1880 and became important as part of the conceptual rethinking of cultures and geography in the late 20th century.
The Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF; sometimes shortened to the Francophonie, French: La Francophonie [la fʁɑ̃kɔfɔni], [4] [note 3] sometimes also called International Organisation of La Francophonie in English [5]) is an international organization representing countries and regions where French is a lingua franca or customary language, where a significant proportion ...
The Three Linguistic Spaces [1] (Tres Espacios Lingüísticos in Spanish, Trois Espaces linguistiques in French, Três Espaços Linguísticos in Portuguese, acronym: TEL) is a structure for cooperation between the Francophone, or French-speaking world, the Hispanophone or Spanish-speaking world, and the Lusophone, or Portuguese-speaking world.
This is a list of the member states of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.These governments belong to an international organisation representing countries and regions where French is the first ("mother") or customary language, where a significant proportion of the population are francophones (French speakers) or where there is a notable affiliation with French culture.
Arguments are 1) this is a basic dictionary definition (and not even the English definition, at that) and 2) the article then goes on to label normal English usage as "misused" compared to French usage. The article presents no evidence that English language sources use "francophonie" for anything other than the name of the OIF.
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Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme Bern, Switzerland UIM: 2 (English) Union Internationale Motonautique Monaco: UMB: 2 (English) Union Mondiale de Billard Madrid, Spain UNESCO: 9 (Arabic, Chinese, English, Portuguese, Hindi, Italian, Russian and Spanish) Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture