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According to the 2021 census, English or Welsh was the main language of 91.1% of the residents of England and Wales. Among other languages, the most common were as follows. [citation needed] Polish 611,845 or 1.1% of the population; Romanian 471,954 or 0.8%; Punjabi 290,745 or 0.5%; Urdu 269,849 or 0.5%; Portuguese 224,719 or 0.4%; Spanish ...
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
Norman or Norman French (Normaund, French: Normand ⓘ, Guernésiais: Normand, Jèrriais: Nouormand) is a langue d'oïl. [6] [7] The name "Norman French" is sometimes also used to describe the administrative languages of Anglo-Norman and Law French used in England.
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]
United Kingdom (de facto; individual countries in the UK have statutorily defined official languages, but the UK as a whole does not) United States (de facto; the United States has no administratively mandated official language) Vanuatu (with Bislama and French) [20] Zambia
Seal of the Alliance des Journaux Franco-Américains de la Nouvelle Angleterre, a trade organization of French-language newspapers in New England extant from 1937 to 1963. [14]: 258 A map showing a total of 242 Franco-American newspapers published in New England in the French language, extant for some period between the years 1838 and 1938.
French is an administrative language and is commonly but unofficially used in the Maghreb states, Mauritania, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.As of 2023, an estimated 350 million African people spread across 34 African countries can speak French either as a first or second language, mostly as a secondary language, making Africa the continent with the most French speakers in the world. [2]
Meanwhile, the French spoken in England was stigmatised as a provincial variety by French speakers from the Continent, [6] particularly because the Anglo-Norman language that was spoken by the elites had taken on a syntactical structure that resembled English. Some nobles had simply shifted to English entirely.