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    Of the languages of France, French is the sole official language according to the second article of the French Constitution. French, a Gallo-Romance language...
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    French (français [fʁɑ̃sɛ] or langue française [lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz] ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it...
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    position of the French language in France.[citation needed] Besides French, there exist many other vernacular minority languages of France, both in European...
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  • the use of Indigenous languages and Inuktitut as the language of instruction. The rate of introduction of French and English as languages of instruction...
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    accepts all official languages as working languages). In fact English and French are used in the day-to-day workings of the institutions of the EU. Institutions...
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    used as a co-official language alongside one or more other languages. List of countries where French is a co-official language: Belgium (alongside Dutch...
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    French Sign Language (French: langue des signes française, LSF) is the sign language of the deaf in France and French-speaking parts of Switzerland. According...
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    three classes of Romance languages: oc languages (in southern France); si languages (in Italy and Iberia) and oïl languages (in northern France).[citation...
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  • French of France (French: français de France [fʁɑ̃sɛ də fʁɑ̃s]) is the predominant variety of the French language in France, Andorra and Monaco, in its...
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    conduct a conversation in French. By the 1969 Official Languages Act, both English and French are recognized as official languages in Canada and granted equal...
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    The Kingdom of Belgium has three official languages: Dutch, French, and German. A number of non-official, minority languages and dialects are spoken as...
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    Quebec French. There are over 15.5 million speakers of some form of French-based creole languages. Haitian Creole is the most spoken creole languages in the...
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    administrative languages of Anglo-Norman and Law French used in England. For the most part, the written forms of Norman and modern French are mutually intelligible...
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    French language spoken traditionally by French Louisianians in colonial Lower Louisiana. As of today Louisiana French is primarily used in the state of Louisiana...
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    mixture of French and English with elements of indigenous languages. French is the sole official language of Benin. According to a 2014 survey, 57.3% of residents...
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    Language portal Association internationale d'études occitanes Baìo History of the Basque language Languages of France Languages of Italy Languages of...
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    information about regional languages, see Languages of France. French National Geographic Institute data, which includes bodies of water French Land Register data...
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    over 500 languages (according to SIL Ethnologue), one of the greatest concentrations of linguistic diversity in the world. The languages of Africa belong...
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  • French was the official language of Vietnam under French colonial rule from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries. After the partition of Vietnam in 1954...
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  • Judeo-French (Zarphatic: Tzarfatit) or Western Loez, is an extinct Jewish language that was spoken by the French Jews of northern France and in parts of west-central...
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    French (French: français de Belgique) is the variety of French spoken mainly among the French Community of Belgium, alongside related Oïl languages of...
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    and French-speaking territories. Since French is a Romance language, French Antillean Creole is considered to be one of Latin America’s languages by some...
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  • Internationally, for the purposes of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, "regional or minority languages" means languages that are: traditionally...
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    were home to over 70 distinct languages across 12 or so language families. Today, a majority of those indigenous languages are still spoken; however, most...
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    the languages of France. The charter provides many actions state parties can take to protect and promote historical regional and minority languages. There...
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    and southwestern France. Basque is classified as a language isolate (unrelated to any other known languages) and the only language isolate in Europe...
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    languages of France. In order to give the Basque language legal recognition, it would be necessary to modify the Constitution of the Republic. French...
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    transcription delimiters. The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are directly descended from Vulgar...
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  • standard language. According to one theory of the development of French, Francien was chosen out of all the competing oïl languages as an official language (Norman...
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    Brittonic languages, are more distantly related, and the Goidelic languages (Irish, Manx, Scottish Gaelic) have a slight connection due to both of their origins...
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