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2. African French - Wikipedia

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   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 320 million people in Africa in 2023 or 67% of the French-speaking population of the world [1] [2] [3] spread across 34 countries and territories.

3. Geographical distribution of French speakers - Wikipedia

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   The French language became an international language, the second international language alongside Latin, in the Middle Ages, "from the fourteenth century onwards".It was not by virtue of the power of the Kingdom of France: '"... until the end of the fifteenth century, the French of the chancellery spread as a political and literary language because the French court was the model of chivalric ...

4. List of multilingual countries and regions - Wikipedia

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   Albania is also part of the Francophonie, with 320,000 French speakers. In Bulgaria, the official language is Bulgarian, but significant minority languages are recognized at a local level, with commitments made in respect of use of Romanian, Czech, Croatian, German, Hungarian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Turkish and Ukrainian in areas where their ...

5. Françafrique - Wikipedia

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   France's main economic partners in Africa are indeed the Maghreb countries (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia), Nigeria, South Africa, and Angola. Some critics of French foreign policy in Africa question the deep commitment that France has with the former French colonies, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, given the low financial and commercial ...

6. France 24 - Wikipedia

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   France 24 (France vingt-quatre in French) is a French state-owned publicly funded international news television network based in Paris. [1] Its channels, broadcast in French, English, Arabic and Spanish, are aimed at the overseas market. [2] Based in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux, the service started on 6 December 2006. It is aimed at ...

7. Member states of the Organisation internationale de la ...

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   All land borders with French-speaking countries (all former colonies of French West Africa) and trade partners. Study of French is being made compulsory at the basic educational level and certain subjects will be taught in both English and French. Greece: 2004: Greek: French spoken as a foreign language by ~7% of the population as of 2014 ...

8. Francophonie - Wikipedia

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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 ...

9. Languages of Bulgaria - Wikipedia

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   The official language of Bulgaria is Bulgarian, [2] which is spoken natively by 85% of the country's population. Other major languages are Russian (23%), Turkish (9.1%), and Romani (4.2%) [3] (the two main varieties being Balkan Romani and Vlax Romani).