The place of French in the world

After Spanish, it is one of the independent Romance languages ??with the largest number of speakers. It is now spoken by 87 million people around the world as their native language, and by another 285 million people (including those who speak it as a second language).

French is the official language of many regions or organizations (e.g. United Nations, European Union). French French and Canadian French are the two major branches of French in the world, and there are big differences between them.

French text is a phonetic text. The text is composed of phonetic letters. The composition of the letters is related to the pronunciation. According to different letter combinations, the pronunciation of the text can be directly read. This is obviously different from Chinese. The French are descendants of the Gauls (les gaulois).

Extended information:

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 language originally spoken in France. In Gaul, with the increase of Roman immigrants, the common Latin used by the Gauls merged into popular Latin (le latin vulgaire). At the same time, the written Latin used by the upper class began to decline.

In the 5th century AD, the languages ??of the early Latin-speaking residents of Gaul began to merge with the languages ??of the Germanic-speaking Franks who entered Gaul with the Great Migration. French began to lose unstressed syllables.

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