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    Native toFrance, Belgium, Switzerland, Monaco, Francophone Africa, Canada, and other locations in the Francophonie
    SpeakersL1: 74 million (2020) · L2: 238 million (2022) · Total: 310 million
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    French language - Wikipedia

    • French is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern … See more

    History

    French is a Romance language (meaning that it is descended primarily from Vulgar Latin) that evolved out of the Gallo-Romance dialects spoken in northern France. The language's early forms include Old French… See more

    Geographic distribution

    Spoken by 19.71% of the European Union's population, French is the third most widely spoken language in the EU, after English and German and the second-most-widely taught language after English.
    Under the … See more

    Current status and importance

    A leading world language, French is taught in universities around the world, and is one of the world's most influential languages because of its wide use in the worlds of journalism, jurisprudence, education, and diplomacy. … See more

    Phonology

    Vowel phonemes in French
    Although there are many French regional accents, foreign learners normally use only one variety of the language.
    • There are a maximum of 17 vowels in French, no… See more

    Writing system

    French is written with the 26 letters of the basic Latin script, with four diacritics appearing on vowels (circumflex accent, acute accent, grave accent, diaeresis) and the cedilla appearing in "ç".
    There are two … See more

    Grammar

    French is a moderately inflected language. Nouns and most pronouns are inflected for number (singular or plural, though in most nouns the plural is pronounced the same as the singular even if spelled differently); adjectives, … See more

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