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French is an administrative language and is commonly but unofficially used in the Maghreb states, Mauritania, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.As of 2023, an estimated 350 million African people spread across 34 African countries can speak French either as a first or second language, mostly as a secondary language, making Africa the continent with the most French speakers in the world. [2]
National dialects of French (1 P) Pages in category "French dialects" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
French is the sole official language of Senegal. [35] French was commonly spoken by 9.4% of Senegalese in 2002, mainly as a second language, with just 0.6% speaking it natively. [88] Wolof is by far the most spoken language in the country, including the capital, while French remains a second language, becoming the main language only in non ...
Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world. [2] [3] Number of living languages and speakers ... French Polynesia: 9 1 10 0.14 257,960
In addition to French, several regional languages are also spoken to varying degrees, such as Alsatian, a German dialect (specifically Alemannic; spoken by 1.44% of the national population); Basque, a language isolate; Breton, a Celtic language (spoken by 0.61%); Corsican, an Italo-Dalmatian language; and various other Gallo-Romance languages ...
French dialects remain spoken by minorities on the Channel Islands; it is also spoken in Andorra and is the main language after Catalan in El Pas de la Casa. The language is taught as the primary second language in the German state of Saarland, with French being taught from pre-school and over 43% of citizens being able to speak French. [49] [50]
Equatorial Guinea: Spanish, French and Portuguese are the official languages of the country. [5] Fang, Bube, Igbo, Pidgin English, Annobonese are also spoken. [6] [7] Republic of the Congo: French (official), Lingala and Kituba national languages [8] plus other dialects, including Kikongo and Kituba.
Principal language families of the world (and in some cases geographic groups of families). For greater detail, see Distribution of languages in the world. This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect.