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  2. Languages of Mali - Wikipedia

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    French is the working language. [1] In 2024, the Francophone population of Mali represents 20%, which is approximately 4,884,000 people. Among them, 6.4% (around 1,491,000 individuals) speak French as their first language. [3] Additionally, approximately 3,329,144 people, or 13.6% of the total population of 24,479,000, use French as a second ...

  3. Mali - Wikipedia

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    In June 2023, Mali removed French, the language of its former colonizer, as an official language with the approval of a new constitution by 97% of voters in a referendum conducted by the junta. [102] On 7 September 2023, al-Qaeda linked JNIM militants attacked a vessel on the Niger River, killing at least 154 civilians. [103]

  4. 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]

  5. African French - Wikipedia

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    A man from Labé, Guinea, speaking Pular and West African French. African French (French: français africain) is the generic name of the varieties of the French language spoken by an estimated 167 million people in Africa in 2023 or 51% of the French-speaking population of the world [1] [2] [3] spread across 34 countries and territories.

  6. Bambara language - Wikipedia

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    Bambara was until 2023 one of several languages designated by Mali as a national language. [13] In 2023, after a new constitution was approved by a majority of voters, Bambara became co-official, together with 12 other languages spoken in the country. French was removed as the official language and was kept only as a working language. [14]

  7. Demographics of Mali - Wikipedia

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    Mali had an estimated net migration rate of –6.6 migrants per 1,000 people ... French is the country's official language and is spoken somewhat by 30% of Malians. ...

  8. Geographical distribution of French speakers - Wikipedia

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    The French language became an international language, the second international language alongside Latin, in the Middle Ages, "from the fourteenth century onwards".It was not by virtue of the power of the Kingdom of France: '"... until the end of the fifteenth century, the French of the chancellery spread as a political and literary language because the French court was the model of chivalric ...

  9. France–Mali relations - Wikipedia

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    The two countries had a strong connection as French rule had influenced Mali in several aspects, such as the initial adoption of the French language as the main language of Mali; however, their relations have deteriorated sharply since Mali's army staged a coup in August 2020, and French was removed as the official language of Mali in 2023. [1]