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French is the language in which countries speak
French is an independent language belonging to the Romance language family of the European Indo-European language family. The Romance languages include Central Romance (French, Italian, Sardinia dialect, Catalunya, etc.), Western Romance (Spanish, Portuguese, etc.) and Eastern Romance (Romanian, etc.) Wait).
French is one of the independent Romance languages with the largest number of speakers after Spanish. It is now spoken by 87 million people around the world as their mother tongue, and 285 million others (including those who speak it as a second language). French is the official language of many regions or organizations (eg United Nations, European Union). French French and Canadian French are the two largest branches of French in the world, and there is a big difference between them.
History
French characters are phonetic characters. The characters are composed of phonetic letters. The composition of the letters is related to pronunciation. According to different letter combinations, the pronunciation of the characters can be directly read. This is obviously different from Chinese. The French are descended from the Gauls (les gaulois).
In the 4th century AD, the Roman Empire ruled France, and Latin became popular in France. By the 5th century AD, Latin had widely replaced the Celtic languages that had been used in France. In Gaul, with the increase of Roman immigration, the common Latin used by the Gauls merged into the popular Latin (le latin vulgaire), and at the same time, the written Latin used by the upper literati began to decline. In the 5th century AD, the earlier Latin-speaking inhabitants of Gaul began to merge with the languages of the Germanic-speaking Franks who entered Gaul with the Great Migration. French is starting to lose unstressed syllables.
In the 6th and 7th centuries AD, the popular language became an un langage composite. In the 8th century AD, the establishment of the Charlemagne Empire began to standardize the French language. By the 9th century AD, Latin and Germanic finally merged into Romance. From the Capetian dynasty in AD 939, French became the only official language of France. The predecessor of modern French is the Gallo-Roman language that evolved from Vulgar Latin.
On March 20, 2018, French President Emmanuel Macron announced in Paris that France will strengthen the promotion of French on a global scale, and plans to make French the third largest language in the world by 2050. France plans to increase the number of French speakers worldwide to over 700 million by 2050, up from 274 million today.
To achieve this goal, France will focus on strengthening the promotion of French in Africa. The new strategy to strengthen the promotion of French includes three major parts: encouraging “learning” in French, “spreading” in French and “creating” in French, covering more than 30 specific measures such as strengthening the training of French teaching staff and strengthening the export of French cultural industries.
la Francophonie:
Members: Albania, Principality of Andorra, Kingdom of Belgium, Benin, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, New Brunswick, Canada, Quebec, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Cyprus · French-speaking Belgium · Comoros · Congo · Democratic Republic of Congo · Côte d’Ivoire · Djibouti · Dominica · Egypt · Republic of Macedonia · France · Gabon · Ghana · Greece · Guinea · Guinea-Bissau · Equatorial Guinea · Haiti · Laos · Lebanon · Luxembourg Madagascar Mali Morocco Mauritius Mauritania Moldova Principality of Monaco Niger Romania Rwanda Saint Lucia Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Seychelles Switzerland Chad Togo Tunisia Vanuatu Vietnam
Associate members (2): Cyprus, Ghana
Observers (19): Armenia, Austria, Croatia, Georgia, Hungary, Lithuania, Mozambique, Poland, Czech Republic, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
