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French usage is gender weighted as well, with 1984 figures showing 17.5% percent of males speaking French, but only 4.9% of women. [9] Bambara (Bambara: Bamanankan), a Manding language (in the Mande family) is said to be spoken by 80% of the population as a first or second language. [citation needed] It is
Distribution of the French language in Europe. Spoken by 12% of the EU population, French is the second most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union, after German; it is also the third most widely known language of the Union, after English and German (33% of the EU population report to know how to speak English, whilst 22% of ...
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] The following is a list of sovereign states and territories where French is an official or de facto language.
French spoken as a foreign language by ~11% of the population as of 2014 Madagascar: 1970–1977, 1989: officially bilingual, French included: Former French colony Mali: 1970: French: Former French colony. Mali's membership was suspended in March 2012 due to a coup, [11] and again in 2020. Mauritania: 1980: Arabic
Mali: French (official), Bambara (most widely spoken), Fula and Songhay (specifically Dendi). 11 languages are used as mediums of instruction in primary schools; Niger: French (official) plus ten other languages recognised as national ones, [45] including Hausa (spoken by half the population) and Songhay (specifically Zarma)
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.
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]
Mali is a part of the "Franc Zone" (Zone Franc), which means that it uses the CFA franc. Mali is connected with the French government by agreement since 1962 (creation of BCEAO). Today all seven countries of BCEAO (including Mali) are connected to French Central Bank. [146] Mali was ranked 136th out of 139 in the Global Innovation Index in 2024 ...