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3 (English, Portuguese) Communauté économique des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest Abuja, Nigeria ESA: 3 (English, German) Agence spatiale européenne Paris, France EU: 23 (Languages of the EU) Union européenne Brussels, Belgium The European Commission, conducts its internal business in three languages - English, French and German EUMETSAT: 2 ...
The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 [1] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [2] i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included.
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.
Book III of the Royal Commission's multi-volume report, published in 1969, recommended a radical redesign of the Public Service of Canada, in order to establish full equality between the two official languages in the federal administration, and a permanently equitable distribution of jobs, at all levels of seniority, between French-speaking and ...
English pronoun Kissi example English translation y /i/ I y tyo kɔlaŋ loŋ. I'm going there. a /a/ you a tyo kɔlaŋ loŋ. You're going there. o /o/ he/she o tyo kɔlaŋ loŋ. He's going there. n /n/ we n tyo kɔlaŋ loŋ. We're going there. la /la/ you (plural) la tyo kɔlaŋ loŋ. You're going there. aa /aː/ they aa tyo kɔlaŋ loŋ. They ...
[5] In recent years the influence of French has been challenged by that of English. [6] [7] Nevertheless, French continues to serve as a means of bridging the country "not only to Europe but also to Francophone Africa.". [8] Estimates of French speakers in Morocco vary by sources.
The following languages are listed as having 50,000 or more total speakers in Metropolitan France according to the 2022 edition of Ethnologue. [18] Entries identified by Ethnologue as macrolanguages (such as Arabic , Persian , Malay , Pashto , and Chinese , encompassing all their respective varieties ) are not included in this section.
Actual usage of French varies depending on the region and social status. One third of high school students educated in French go on to pursue higher education in English-speaking institutions. English is the language of business and communication, with French being an element of social distinction, chosen for its emotional value. [116]