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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.
This is a list of the member states of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.These governments belong to an international organisation representing countries and regions where French is the first ("mother") or customary language, where a significant proportion of the population are francophones (French speakers) or where there is a notable affiliation with French culture.
Population who can understand French in the EU and UK. The following figures are from a 2022 report of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF). [8] No distinctions are made between native speakers of French and those who learnt it as a foreign language, between different levels of mastery or how often the language is used in daily life. [9]
The Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF; sometimes shortened to La Francophonie, French: La Francophonie [la fʁɑ̃kɔfɔni], [4] [note 3] sometimes also called International Organisation of La Francophonie in English [5]) is an international organization representing where there is a notable affiliation with French language and culture.
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Their ancestors were Celts who came from Central Europe in the 7th century BCE or earlier, [48] and non-Celtic peoples including the Ligures, Aquitanians and Basques in Aquitaine. The Belgae , who lived in the northern and eastern areas, may have had Germanic admixture; many of these peoples had already spoken Gaulish by the time of the Roman ...
Organisation internationale de la francophonie; Frankofonia; Usage on fr.wikipedia.org Économie de la francophonie; Alliance des patronats francophones; Usage on he.wikipedia.org הארגון הבין-לאומי לפרנקופוניה; Usage on hr.wikipedia.org Frankofonija; Usage on hu.wikipedia.org Frankofónia; Usage on hy.wikipedia.org
Canada has the second largest community of people outside of France who have identified as being of French descent, close behind the United States. 8.5 million Canadians claim French heritage. The French-speaking province of Quebec has the highest concentration of people with French ancestry in the world: 90% of Quebecers have French roots. [97]