European_French

European French

European French

Variety of French

European French (French: français d'Europe, français européen) is the variety of French spoken in Europe in French speaking countries or areas.

In Europe, French is spoken by 71 million native speakers, making French the second most spoken native language in Europe after German and 210 million Europeans can speak French, making French the second most spoken language in Europe after English.[1]

Geographic distribution

Knowledge of French in the European Union and candidate countries[2]

Among varieties of European French:

  • French of France, the predominant variety of the French language in France, Monaco and Andorra
  • Belgian French, the variety of French language spoken mainly in the French Community of Belgium
  • Swiss French, the variety spoken in the French-speaking area of Switzerland
  • Luxembourg French, the variety spoken in the French-speaking area of Luxembourg
  • Jersey Legal French, the official dialect of French used administratively in Jersey.
  • Aostan French, the variety of French spoken in the Aosta Valley, Italy.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Europeans and their Languages Archived 6 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Data for EU27 Archived 29 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine, published in 2012.
  2. [2]
    EUROPA, data for EU25, published before 2007 enlargement.

Further reading

  • Françoise Gadet (March 1996). "Variabilité, variation, variété: le français d'Europe". Journal of French Language Studies (in French): 75–98. doi:10.1017/S0959269500004981. ISSN 0959-2695. Wikidata Q104115899.
  • "Documents pour l'étude du français d'Europe". Canadian Journal of Linguistics (in French): 80–93. 1958. doi:10.1017/S0008413100025469. ISSN 0008-4131. Wikidata Q104117166.
  • François Poiré; Veranika Barysevich (2014). "La réalisation accentuelle des mots de fonction dans différents styles de parole du français européen" (PDF). Nouveaux cahiers de linguistique française (in French): 21–32. ISSN 1661-8246. Wikidata Q104117216.


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