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Languages of Metropolitan France, Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) [a] [18] Language Family Branch First-language (L1) speakers in France Second-language (L2) speakers in France Total (L1+L2) speakers in France Alsatian: Indo-European: Germanic: 900,000 Algerian Arabic: Afro-Asiatic: Semitic: 1,350,000 Moroccan Arabic: Afro-Asiatic: Semitic ...
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 ]
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 ...
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... France: 22 73 95 1.42 69,961,900 1,793,895 126,000
French is the official language of France, but each region in France has its own unique accent, such as the French spoken in Paris, or in the south (Meridional French) or in the region around Tours. In addition to French, there are several other languages of France (sometimes called " patois ") traditionally spoken, although use of these ...
Pages in category "Languages of France" The following 63 pages are in this category, out of 63 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
National language in Switzerland (with German, French, and Italian) [41] ... (France) (French Flemish dialect with French, English for some part of the region)
More recently (1994) the linguistic policy of the French language academies of France and Quebec has been to provide French equivalents [125] to (mainly English) imported words, either by using existing vocabulary, extending its meaning or deriving a new word according to French morphological rules. The result is often two (or more) co-existing ...