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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 ...
Despite the fact that Portuguese is the official language of Brazil and the vast majority of Brazilians speak only Portuguese, there are several other languages spoken in the country. According to the president of IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) there are an estimated 210 languages spoken in Brazil. 154 are Amerindian ...
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]
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 )
It states that 14% of the adult people living in France in 1999 were born and raised up to the age of 5 in families that spoke only (or predominantly) some other languages than French. It does not mean that 14% of adult people in France spoke some other languages than French in 1999. Only adults (i.e. 18 years and older) were surveyed.
Official language in: the Brazilian municipalities of Antônio Carlos and São João do Oeste in Santa Catarina, and Santa Maria do Herval in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; Hunzib – гьонкьос мыц Spoken in: Southern Dagestan, Russia; Hupa – Na꞉tinixwe Mixine꞉wheʼ Spoken in: California, United States; Hutterite German – Hutterisch
In North America 1,000,000 people speak Portuguese as their home language, mainly immigrants from Brazil, Portugal, and other Portuguese-speaking countries and their descendants. [23] In Oceania, Portuguese is the second most spoken Romance language, after French, due mainly to the number of speakers in East Timor.
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.