French language (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "French language" in English language version.

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académie-française.fr

"Questions de langue: Nombres (écriture, lecture, accord)" (in French). Académie française. Archived from the original on 1 January 2015. Retrieved 15 November 2015.

africanews.com

"Mali drops French as official language". Africanews. 26 July 2023. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
"Burkina abandons French as an official language". Africanews. 7 December 2023. Retrieved 28 March 2024.

alfograf.net

(in French) Alfograf writing system proposal Archived 12 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine.

amazon.fr

Ploog, Katja (25 September 2002). Le français à Abidjan : Pour une approche syntaxique du non-standard Broché – 25 septembre 2002. ASIN 2271059682.

andaman.org

The World's 10 Most Influential Languages. Archived 12 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Top Languages. Retrieved 11 April 2011.

archive.today

"The world's languages, in 7 maps and charts". The Washington Post. 18 April 2022. Archived from the original on 16 August 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
"Language Spoken at Home by Ability to Speak English for the Population 5 Years and Over : Universe: Population 5 years and over: 2007–2011 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates??". Factfinder2.census.gov. Archived from the original on 12 February 2020. Retrieved 14 March 2015.

archives-ouvertes.fr

hal.archives-ouvertes.fr

Brissaud, Catherine; Chevrot, Jean-Pierre (2011). "The late acquisition of a major difficulty of French inflectional orthography: The homophonic /E/ verbal endings" (PDF). Writing Systems Research. 3 (2): 129–44. doi:10.1093/wsr/wsr003. S2CID 15072817. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 September 2019. Retrieved 22 September 2019.

auf.org

demographie.auf.org

"Bulletin de liaison du réseau démographie" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 14 June 2011.

babbel.com

"How many people speak French and where is French spoken". Archived from the original on 21 November 2017. Retrieved 21 November 2017.

bbc.co.uk

"German region of Saarland moves towards bilingualism". BBC News. 21 January 2014. Archived from the original on 14 October 2018. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
"End of the circumflex? Changes in French spelling cause uproar". BBC News. 5 February 2016. Archived from the original on 31 May 2018. Retrieved 30 July 2017.

bbc.com

"Why the future of French is African". BBC News. 7 April 2019. Archived from the original on 11 April 2021. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
Burns, Judith (22 June 2014). "Foreign languages 'shortfall' for business, CBI says". BBC News. Archived from the original on 30 December 2018. Retrieved 18 November 2018.

bloomberg.com

Lauerman, John (30 August 2011). Mandarin Chinese Most Useful Business Language After English. New York: Bloomberg L.P. Archived from the original on 29 March 2015. French, spoken by 68 million people worldwide and the official language of 27 countries, was ranked second [to Mandarin].

books.google.com

Lodge, R. Anthony (1993). French: From Dialect to Standard. Routledge. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-415-08071-2. Archived from the original on 18 September 2023. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
Craven, Thomas D. (2002). Comparative Historical Dialectology: Italo-Romance Clues to Ibero-Romance Sound Change. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 51. ISBN 1-58811-313-2. Archived from the original on 18 September 2023. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
Holmes, Urban; Herman Schutz, Alexander (June 1938). A History of the French Language. Biblo & Tannen Publishers. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-8196-0191-9. Archived from the original on 18 September 2023. Retrieved 10 June 2021. "...sixty-eight or more Celtic words in standard Latin; not all of these came down into Romance.... did not survive among the people. Vulgar speech in Gaul used many others... at least 361 words of Gaulish provenance in French and Provençal. These Celtic words fell into more homely types than... borrowings from Germanː agriculture... household effects... animals... food and drink... trees... body -- 17 (dor < durnu), dress... construction... birds... fish... insects... pièce < *pettia, and the remainder divided among weapons, religion, literature, music, persons, sickness and mineral. It is evident that the peasants were the last to hold to their Celtic. The count on the Celtic element was made by Leslie Moss at the University of North Carolina... based on unanimity of agreement among the best lexicographers...
Battye, Adrian; Hintze, Marie-Anne; Rowlett, Paul (2000). The French Language Today (2nd ed.). Routledge. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-136-90328-1. [2-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it was deemed no longer make to think of the varieties spoken in Gaul as Latin. Although a precise date can't be given, there is a general consensus (see Wright 1982, 1991, Lodge 1993) that an awareness of a vernacular, distinct from Latin, emerged at the end of the eighth century.]
Nadeau, Jean-Benoit; Barlow, Julie (2008). The Story of French. St. Martin's Press. pp. 34ff. ISBN 978-1-4299-3240-0. Archived from the original on 18 May 2024. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
Battye, Adrian; Hintze, Marie-Anne; Rowlett, Paul (2003). The French Language Today: A Linguistic Introduction. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-203-41796-6. Archived from the original on 18 September 2023. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
Novoa, Cristina; Moghaddam, Fathali M. (2014). "Applied Perspectives: Policies for Managing Cultural Diversity". In Benet-Martínez, Verónica; Hong, Ying-Yi (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Multicultural Identity. Oxford Library of Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 468. ISBN 978-0-19-979669-4. LCCN 2014006430. OCLC 871965715.
Abalain, Hervé (2007). Le français et les langues. Editions Jean-paul Gisserot. ISBN 978-2-87747-881-6. Archived from the original on 18 September 2023. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
Ammon, Ulrich; International Sociological Association (1989). Status and Function of Languages and Language Varieties. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 306–08. ISBN 978-0-89925-356-5. Archived from the original on 18 September 2023. Retrieved 14 November 2011.

cecif.com

"Annonces import export Francophone". cecif.com. Archived from the original on 17 January 2013. Retrieved 2 March 2007.
(in French) "Le français, langue en évolution. Dans beaucoup de pays francophones, surtout sur le continent africain, une proportion importante de la population ne parle pas couramment le français (même s'il est souvent la langue officielle du pays). Ce qui signifie qu'au fur et à mesure que les nouvelles générations vont à l'école, le nombre de francophones augmente : on estime qu'en 2015, ceux-ci seront deux fois plus nombreux qu'aujourd'hui. Archived 17 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine"
(in French) c) Le sabir franco-africain Archived 17 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine: "C'est la variété du français la plus fluctuante. Le sabir franco-africain est instable et hétérogène sous toutes ses formes. Il existe des énoncés où les mots sont français mais leur ordre reste celui de la langue africaine. En somme, autant les langues africaines sont envahies par les structures et les mots français, autant la langue française se métamorphose en Afrique, donnant naissance à plusieurs variétés."

census.gov

"Language Use in the United States: 2011, American Community Survey Reports, Camille Ryan, Issued August 2013" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2018.

factfinder.census.gov

"Language Spoken at Home by Ability to Speak English for the Population 5 Years and Over : Universe: Population 5 years and over: 2007–2011 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates??". Factfinder2.census.gov. Archived from the original on 12 February 2020. Retrieved 14 March 2015.

cia.gov

"Saint Pierre and Miquelon". The World Factbook. 18 October 2021. Archived from the original on 2 February 2021. Retrieved 28 January 2021.

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"Services and communications from federal institutions". Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages of Canada. Government of Canada. Archived from the original on 14 November 2024. Retrieved 13 November 2024.

core.ac.uk

Øyvind, Dahl (19 June 2024). "Linguistic policy challenges in Madagascar" (PDF). core.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 June 2024.

cpfalta.ab.ca

"Why Learn French". Archived from the original on 19 June 2008.

diplomatie.gouv.fr

"The status of French in the world". Archived from the original on 22 September 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
France-Diplomatie Archived 27 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine "Furthermore, the demographic growth of Southern hemisphere countries leads us to anticipate a new increase in the overall number of French speakers."
The French Ministry of Foreign affairs. "France-Diplomatie". France Diplomatie: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development. Archived from the original on 19 January 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2011.

doi.org

Benrabah, Mohamed (2007). "Language Maintenance and Spread: French in Algeria". International Journal of Francophone Studies. 10: 193–215. doi:10.1386/ijfs.10.1and2.193_1. Archived from the original on 25 May 2024. Retrieved 18 March 2024 – via ResearchGate.
Adams, J. N. (2007). "Chapter V – Regionalisms in provincial texts: Gaul". The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC – AD 600. pp. 279–289. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511482977. ISBN 978-0-511-48297-7.
Mufwene, Salikoko S. (2004). "Language birth and death". Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 33: 201–222. doi:10.1146/annurev.anthro.33.070203.143852.
Polinsky, Maria; Van Everbroeck, Ezra (2003). "Development of Gender Classifications: Modeling the Historical Change from Latin to French". Language. 79 (2): 356–390. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.134.9933. doi:10.1353/lan.2003.0131. ISSN 0097-8507. JSTOR 4489422. S2CID 6797972.
Schmitt, Christian (1997). "Keltische im heutigen Französisch". Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie. 49–50: 814–829. doi:10.1515/zcph.1997.49-50.1.814.
Lahousse, Karen; Lamiroy, Béatrice (2012). "Word order in French, Spanish and Italian:A grammaticalization account". Folia Linguistica. 46 (2). doi:10.1515/flin.2012.014. ISSN 1614-7308. S2CID 146854174. Archived from the original on 27 April 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
Hulstaert, Karen (2 November 2018). ""French and the school are one" – the role of French in postcolonial Congolese education: memories of pupils". Paedagogica Historica. 54 (6): 822–836. doi:10.1080/00309230.2018.1494203. ISSN 0030-9230.
Katabe, Isidore M.; Tibategeza, Eustard R. (17 January 2023). "Language-in-Education Policy and Practice in the Democratic Republic of Congo". European Journal of Language and Culture Studies. 2 (1): 4–12. doi:10.24018/ejlang.2023.2.1.58. ISSN 2796-0064.
Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, H.S. (22 June 2011). "From foreign to national: a review of the status of the French language in Gabon". Literator. 32 (2): 135–150. doi:10.4102/lit.v32i2.15. ISSN 2219-8237.
Vernaudon, Jacques (1 July 2020). "Les langues polynésiennes et kanak, des « langues de France » en contexte de décolonisation". Glottopol. Revue de sociolinguistique en ligne (in French) (34). doi:10.4000/glottopol.488. ISSN 1769-7425.
Cohen, Mathilde (April 2016). "On the Linguistic Design of Multinational Courts – The French Capture". International Journal of Constitutional Law. 14 (2): 498–517. doi:10.1093/icon/mow023. Archived from the original on 22 July 2024. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
Fejzo, Anila (2016). "The contribution of morphological awareness to the spelling of morphemes and morphologically complex words in French". Reading and Writing. 29 (2): 207–228. doi:10.1007/s11145-015-9586-8. S2CID 254991244. Archived from the original on 18 September 2023. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
Brissaud, Catherine; Chevrot, Jean-Pierre (2011). "The late acquisition of a major difficulty of French inflectional orthography: The homophonic /E/ verbal endings" (PDF). Writing Systems Research. 3 (2): 129–44. doi:10.1093/wsr/wsr003. S2CID 15072817. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 September 2019. Retrieved 22 September 2019.

economist.com

Johnson (9 December 2017). "Johnson: What is a foreign language worth?". The Economist. Archived from the original on 9 December 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2017.

ej-lang.org

Katabe, Isidore M.; Tibategeza, Eustard R. (17 January 2023). "Language-in-Education Policy and Practice in the Democratic Republic of Congo". European Journal of Language and Culture Studies. 2 (1): 4–12. doi:10.24018/ejlang.2023.2.1.58. ISSN 2796-0064.

ethernet.edu.et

ndl.ethernet.edu.et

Rosendal, Tove (2008). "Multilingual Cameroon Policy, Practice, Problems and Solutions" (PDF).

ethnologue.com

French at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
French at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)
"What are the top 200 most spoken languages?". Ethnologue. Retrieved 11 March 2025.

europa.eu

ec.europa.eu

European Commission (June 2012), "Europeans and their Languages" (PDF), Special Eurobarometer 386, Europa, p. 5, archived from the original (PDF) on 6 January 2016, retrieved 7 September 2014
EUROPA Archived 17 June 2017 at the Wayback Machine, data for EU25, published before 2007 enlargement.

fgov.be

statbel.fgov.be

Van Parijs, Philippe. "Belgium's new linguistic challenge" (PDF). KVS Express (Supplement to Newspaper de Morgen) March–April 2006: Article from original source (pdf 4.9 MB) pp. 34–36 republished by the Belgian Federal Government Service (ministry) of Economy – Directorate–general Statistics Belgium. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 June 2007. Retrieved 5 May 2007.

fonetik.fr

(in French) Fonétik.fr writing system proposal Archived 13 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine.

forbes.com

Gobry, Pascal-Emmanuel. "Want To Know The Language Of The Future? The Data Suggests It Could Be...French". Forbes. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
Gobry, Pascal-Emmanuel (21 March 2014). "Want To Know The Language of the Future? The Data Suggests It Could Be...French". Forbes. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 18 November 2018.

france24.com

Pondicherry, the French outpost in India Archived 16 October 2021 at the Wayback Machine, France 24
"Focus – EU after Brexit: Will the French language make a comeback?". France 24. 17 October 2019. Archived from the original on 2 October 2020. Retrieved 16 September 2020.

francetvinfo.fr

"Allemagne: le français, bientôt la deuxième langue officielle de la Sarre". 28 April 2014. Archived from the original on 22 August 2017. Retrieved 20 June 2017.

francophonie.org

OIF 2014, p. 217. La langue française dans le monde 2014 (PDF) (in French). Nathan. 2014. ISBN 978-2-09-882654-0. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 April 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
OIF 2014, p. 218. La langue française dans le monde 2014 (PDF) (in French). Nathan. 2014. ISBN 978-2-09-882654-0. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 April 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
OIF 2014, p. 358. La langue française dans le monde 2014 (PDF) (in French). Nathan. 2014. ISBN 978-2-09-882654-0. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 April 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
"La langue française dans le monde" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 March 2022. Retrieved 30 March 2022.

glottolog.org

Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (24 May 2022). "Glottolog 4.8 - Shifted Western Romance". Glottolog. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Archived from the original on 27 November 2023. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (24 May 2022). "Glottolog 4.8 - Oil". Glottolog. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Archived from the original on 11 November 2023. Retrieved 11 November 2023.

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"HarvardKey – Login". pin1.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 13 August 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2019.

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Fonyuy, Kelen Ernesta (24 October 2024). "Revitalizing Cameroon Indigenous Languages Usage in Empowering Realms".

indiatimes.com

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

"English to continue as link language in Puducherry: Court". The Times of India. 14 September 2014. Archived from the original on 21 October 2021. Retrieved 16 October 2021.

insee.fr

"P9-1 – Population de 14 ans et plus selon la connaissance du français, le sexe, par commune, "zone" et par province de résidence" (XLS) (in French). Government of France. Archived from the original on 18 September 2023. Retrieved 3 October 2009.
"Tableau Pop_06_1: Population selon le sexe, la connaissance du français et l'âge décennal" (in French). Government of France. Archived from the original (XLS) on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 3 October 2009.

ispf.pf

Institut Statistique de Polynésie Française (ISPF). "Recensement 2017 – Données détaillées Langues". Archived from the original on 7 April 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
Institut Statistique de Polynésie Française (ISPF). "Recensement 2007 – Données détaillées Langues". Archived from the original on 18 February 2020. Retrieved 7 April 2019.

journaldemontreal.com

Péladeau, Pierrot (13 September 2014). "Montréal n'est pas la deuxième ville française du monde". Journal de Montréal (in Canadian French). Retrieved 13 November 2024.

jstor.org

Polinsky, Maria; Van Everbroeck, Ezra (2003). "Development of Gender Classifications: Modeling the Historical Change from Latin to French". Language. 79 (2): 356–390. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.134.9933. doi:10.1353/lan.2003.0131. ISSN 0097-8507. JSTOR 4489422. S2CID 6797972.

kuleuven.be

lirias.kuleuven.be

Lahousse, Karen; Lamiroy, Béatrice (2012). "Word order in French, Spanish and Italian:A grammaticalization account". Folia Linguistica. 46 (2). doi:10.1515/flin.2012.014. ISSN 1614-7308. S2CID 146854174. Archived from the original on 27 April 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2021.

kvs.be

Van Parijs, Philippe. "Belgium's new linguistic challenge" (PDF). KVS Express (Supplement to Newspaper de Morgen) March–April 2006: Article from original source (pdf 4.9 MB) pp. 34–36 republished by the Belgian Federal Government Service (ministry) of Economy – Directorate–general Statistics Belgium. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 June 2007. Retrieved 5 May 2007.

languageknowledge.eu

"Explore language knowledge in Europe". languageknowledge.eu. Archived from the original on 17 September 2016. Retrieved 24 November 2014.

langue-fr.net

"Septante, octante (huitante), nonante". langue-fr.net (in French). Archived from the original on 4 September 2010. Retrieved 19 July 2009.. See also the English Wikipedia article on Welsh language, especially the section "Counting system" and its note on the influence of Celtic in the French counting system.

languefrancaise.net

"Rapport Grégoire an II". Languefrancaise.net (in French). 18 November 2003. Archived from the original on 23 November 2006. Retrieved 11 June 2007.

latimes.com

Meisler, Stanley (1 March 1986). "Seduction Still Works: French – a Language in Decline". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2021.

ledevoir.com

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lefigaro.fr

Develey, Alice (25 February 2017). "Le français est la deuxième langue la plus étudiée dans l'Union européenne". Le Figaro. Archived from the original on 24 April 2017. Retrieved 20 June 2017.

literator.org.za

Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, H.S. (22 June 2011). "From foreign to national: a review of the status of the French language in Gabon". Literator. 32 (2): 135–150. doi:10.4102/lit.v32i2.15. ISSN 2219-8237.

loc.gov

lccn.loc.gov

Novoa, Cristina; Moghaddam, Fathali M. (2014). "Applied Perspectives: Policies for Managing Cultural Diversity". In Benet-Martínez, Verónica; Hong, Ying-Yi (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Multicultural Identity. Oxford Library of Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 468. ISBN 978-0-19-979669-4. LCCN 2014006430. OCLC 871965715.

macmillandictionaries.com

Brincat, Joseph M. (2005). "Maltese – an unusual formula". MED Magazine (27). Archived from the original on 5 September 2005. Retrieved 22 February 2008.

manchester.ac.uk

research.manchester.ac.uk

Joubert, Aurélie (2010). "A Comparative Study of the Evolution of Prestige Formations and of Speakers' Attitudes in Occitan and Catalan" (PDF). University of Manchester.

metro.co.uk

"French fight franglais with alternatives for English technology terms". Metro News. 1 October 2012. Archived from the original on 17 May 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2013.

nytimes.com

DeGraff, Michel; Ruggles, Molly (1 August 2014). "A Creole Solution for Haiti's Woes". The New York Times. p. A17. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 6 September 2015. Under the 1987 Constitution, adopted after the overthrow of Jean‑Claude Duvalier's dictatorship, [Haitian] Creole and French have been the two official languages, but most of the population speaks only Creole fluently.
Richardson, Michael (16 October 1993). "French Declines in Indochina, as English Booms". International Herald Tribune. Archived from the original on 9 October 2018. Retrieved 18 November 2018.

ohchr.org

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olympiccities.org

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openedition.org

journals.openedition.org

Vernaudon, Jacques (1 July 2020). "Les langues polynésiennes et kanak, des « langues de France » en contexte de décolonisation". Glottopol. Revue de sociolinguistique en ligne (in French) (34). doi:10.4000/glottopol.488. ISSN 1769-7425.

ortograf.net

(in French) Ortograf.net writing system proposal Archived 29 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine.

prb.org

Population Reference Bureau. "2023 World Population Data Sheet" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 February 2024. Retrieved 5 February 2024.

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