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The Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF; sometimes shortened to La 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 where there is a notable affiliation with French language and culture.
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 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.
7 (English, German, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian) Mouvement international de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge Geneva, Switzerland Interpol: 4 (Arabic, English, Spanish) Interpol Lyon, France IOC: 2 (English) Comité International Olympique Lausanne, Switzerland IOM: 3 (English, Spanish) Organisation Internationale pour les Migration
As of 2016, the majority of the country's over 40 million native Spanish speakers reside in the region, and nearly 60 million Americans (~20% of the population) profess fluency in the language. [1] The French Sprachraum, which also spans the globe, is known as la francophonie.
Before La Francophonie, since the foundation and expansion of the Commonwealth, France has created a number of political and cultural unions that have attempted to simulate its model amongst France's former colonial possessions and French-speaking countries.
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.
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