What is the first language of the 2022 Winter Olympics?

French and English are the official languages of the International Olympic Committee. If there is any discrepancy between the English and French versions, the French version shall prevail. Therefore, French can be said to be the first language of the Olympic Games. French was used for the first time in the Olympic Games broadcast. This is because Coubertin, the father of modern Olympics, was French. The International Olympic Committee was located in Paris, France, and later moved to Lausanne, Switzerland. Both cities are French-speaking cities.

Although French is not as good as English in international communication, it was once the main language used by the upper class in Europe in history and is now one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Not only France uses French, but also Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Canada in Europe and America list French as the official language, and there are many French users.

In addition, due to the colonial activities of France in the past, French is also the official language of many African countries, covering almost half of the African continent and surrounding islands.

The historical frontier of France

French is an independent language, belonging to the Romance family of Indo-European languages in Europe. French is one of the most widely used Romanesque independent languages after Spanish. At present, 87 million people in the world speak English as their mother tongue, and another 285 million people use English. French is the official language of many regions or organizations. French and Canadian French are two branches of French in the world, and there are great differences between them.

French script belongs to phonography, and it is composed of phonetic alphabet. The composition of letters is related to pronunciation. According to different letter combinations, the pronunciation of words can be read directly, which is obviously different from the Chinese character system. The French are descended from Gauls. In the 4th century, the Roman Empire ruled France, and Latin became popular in France.

By the 5th century, Latin had widely replaced Celtic, which was popular in France in the past. With the increase of immigrants from Gaul and Rome, the common Latin used by Gauls merged into popular Latin.

At the same time, the written Latin used as a scholar of high society began to decline. In the 5th century A.D., the Latin-speaking residents in Gaul began to merge with the Germanic-speaking Franks who entered Gaul with the great national migration, and French began to lose unstressed syllables.

Catchwords became mixed languages in the 6th and 7th centuries, and the establishment of Charlemagne Empire began to standardize French in the 8th century. In the 9th century, Latin and Germanic finally merged into Romance. French has been the only official language in France since the Capuet dynasty in 939. The predecessor of modern French is Gaul Romance, which evolved from vulgar Latin.

2065438+On March 20th, 2008, French President Macron announced in Paris that France would strengthen the global promotion of French, and planned to make French the third largest language in the world by 2050. By 2050, France plans to increase the number of French speakers in the world from the current 274 million to more than 700 million. To achieve this goal, France will focus on promoting French in Africa.

The new strategy of promoting French includes encouraging learning, dissemination and creation in French, covering more than 30 specific measures such as strengthening the training of French teachers and strengthening the export of French cultural industries.