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Besides French, there exist 77 vernacular minority languages of France, eight spoken in French metropolitan territory and 69 in the French overseas territories. It is estimated that between 300 million [276] and 500 million [277] people worldwide can speak French, either as a mother tongue or as a second language.
Varieties of the French language are spoken in France and around the world. The Francophones of France generally use Metropolitan French [citation needed] (spoken in Paris and considered standard) although some also use regional dialects or varieties such as Meridional French. In Europe outside France there are Belgian French, Swiss French, and ...
Statistics OIF figures 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). 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.
French language in Algeria. French is a lingua franca of Algeria according to the CIA World Factbook. [1] Algeria is the second largest Francophone country in the world in terms of speakers. [2] In 2008, 11.2 million Algerians (33%) could read and write in French. [3] Despite intermittent attempts to eradicate French from public life, by the ...
Canadian French (French: français canadien, pronounced [fʁãsɛ kanadzjɛ ]) is the French language as it is spoken in Canada. It includes multiple varieties, the most prominent of which is Québécois (Quebec French). Formerly Canadian French referred solely to Quebec French and the closely related varieties of Ontario (Franco-Ontarian) and Western Canada—in contrast with Acadian French ...
Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; French: ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th[2] and the mid-14th century. Rather than a unified language, Old French was a group of Romance dialects, mutually intelligible yet diverse. These dialects came to be collectively ...
French-language inscription "Banque du Liban" on the headquarters of the Bank of Lebanon. French and English are secondary languages of Lebanon, with about 40–45% of the population being Francophone as a second language and 30% Anglophone. [1] In addition to the 40–45% of Lebanese being considered francophone, there are another 15% who are ...
