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  2. List of countries and territories where French is an official ...

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    French is an official language in 27 independent nations. French is also the second most geographically widespread language in the world after English, with about 60 countries and territories having it as a de jure or de facto official, administrative, or cultural language. [1]

  3. Languages of Bulgaria - Wikipedia

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    Keyboard layout. Bulgarian. The official language of Bulgaria is Bulgarian, [2] which is spoken natively by 85% of the country's population. Other major languages are Russian (23%), Turkish (9.1%), and Romani (4.2%) [3] (the two main varieties being Balkan Romani and Vlax Romani). There are smaller numbers of speakers of Armenian, Aromanian ...

  4. List of languages by number of speakers in Europe - Wikipedia

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    Retrieved 2 April 2018. ^ Dutch at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) ^ Serbo-Croatian at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) ^ c. 12 million in European Turkey, 0.6 million in Bulgaria, 0.6 million in Cyprus and Northern Cyprus; and 2,679,765 L1 speakers in other countries in Europe according to a Eurobarometer survey in 2012: https ...

  5. Francophonie - Wikipedia

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    50%+ francophone. 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.

  6. French language - Wikipedia

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    French (français [fʁɑ̃sɛ] ⓘ or langue française [lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz] ⓘ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest ...

  7. Indo-European languages - Wikipedia

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    Today, the individual Indo-European languages with the most native speakers are English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Hindustani, Bengali, Punjabi, French and German each with over 100 million native speakers; many others are small and in danger of extinction. In total, 46% of the world's population (3.2 billion people) speaks an Indo-European ...

  8. Languages of France - Wikipedia

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    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. In addition to French, several regional languages are also spoken to varying degrees, such as Alsatian, a German dialect (specifically ...

  9. List of official languages - Wikipedia

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    Burkina Faso (a national language along with Fula, Mossi and other languages, the official language is French) Dogon : Mali (a national language along with Bambara , Bomu , Bozo , Fula , Mamara , Songhay , Soninke , Syenara , Tamasheq , the official language is French )