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The term francophonie was invented by Onésime Reclus in 1880: "We also put aside four large countries, Senegal, Gabon, Cochinchina and Cambodia, whose future from a "Francophone" point of view is still very doubtful, except perhaps for Senegal" (in French « Nous mettons aussi de côté quatre grands pays, le Sénégal, le Gabon, la Cochinchine, le Cambodge dont l’avenir au point de vue ...
3 (English, Spanish) Union Internationale pour la Conservation de la Nature Gland, Switzerland: Latin Union: 6 (Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish) Union Latine Paris, France MSF: Médecins sans frontières Geneva, Switzerland NAFTA: 3 (English, Spanish) Accord de libre-échange nord-américain Mexico City, Ottawa and Washington, D ...
The Three Linguistic Spaces [1] (Tres Espacios Lingüísticos in Spanish, Trois Espaces linguistiques in French, Três Espaços Linguísticos in Portuguese, acronym: TEL) is a structure for cooperation between the Francophone, or French-speaking world, the Hispanophone or Spanish-speaking world, and the Lusophone, or Portuguese-speaking world.
The Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF; sometimes shortened to the Francophonie, French: La Francophonie [la fʁɑ̃kɔfɔni], [3] [note 3] sometimes also called International Organisation of La Francophonie in English [4]) is an international organization representing countries and regions where French is a lingua franca or customary language, where a significant proportion ...
Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) French: Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI) Spanish and Portuguese: Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC/OCI) Arabic, English and French: Red Cross: Arabic, English, French, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese and German: Rotary International
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.
Nonetheless, La Francophonie spends ten times as much money per inhabitant as the Commonwealth (€0.30 cf. €0.03), reflecting France's dedication to promoting Francophonie relations. [ 2 ] Twelve countries are full members of both La Francophonie and the Commonwealth ( Cameroon , Canada , Cyprus , Dominica , Gabon , Ghana , Mauritius ...
Map of OIF member states. The Francophone economy includes 54 member countries of the OIF, with a total population of more than 1.2 billion people, [1] whose official language or one of the official languages or languages of education is French.