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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]
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... French language in France (4 P) M. Macaronic forms of French (5 P) N. ... Category: French dialects.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Dialects of English (19 C, 116 P) ... (2 C, 22 P) French dialects (6 C, 22 P) G. German dialects (6 C, 122 P) Varieties of ...
French, a Gallo-Romance language, is spoken by nearly the entire population of France. In addition to French, several regional languages are also spoken to varying degrees, such as Alsatian, a German dialect (specifically Alemannic; spoken by 1.44% of the national population); Basque, a language isolate; Breton, a Celtic language (spoken by 0. ...
The Atlas linguistique de la France (ALF, Linguistic Atlas of France) is an influential dialect atlas of Romance varieties in France published in 13 volumes between 1902 and 1910 by Jules Gilliéron and Edmond Edmont.
Northern parts of the Lemosin and Auvernhat dialects. The Croissant (Occitan: [1] lo Creissent; French: le Croissant) is a linguistic transitional zone between the Langue d'oc (also referred to as Occitan) dialects and the Langue d'oïl dialects, situated in the centre of France where Occitan dialects are spoken (Limousin and Auvergnat) that have transitional traits toward French (Langue d ...
Both aspects of "dialects of a same language" and "French as the common langue d'oïl" appear in a text of Roger Bacon, Opus maius, who wrote in Medieval Latin but translated thus: "Indeed, idioms of a same language vary amongst people, as it occurs in the French language which varies in an idiomatic manner amongst the French, Picards, Normans ...
The Orléanais dialect (French pronunciation:) is a langue d'oïl that was part of a dialect group called Francien. [ 2 ] The dialect covers three departments, corresponding to the territory of Orléanais , former province of the kingdom of France : Loir-et-Cher , Loiret and Eure-et-Loir .