That's the name of the "French speaking world". Immediatly, we would think of Belgium or Quebec but there are many other places in the world where French is the native, administrative or cultural language (region or pays francophone).L'Organisation internationale de la Francophonie has got its flag, motto,summit every two years (next one in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (2012) ), its Secretary General etc...
The French spoken is all these differents areas of the world will of course differ in vocabulary, syntaxe and accents. Figures will vary from one source to the other but it would be fair to say that French is spoken by 200 million people in well over 50 countries.
The hot spots are the obvious ones (Luxembourg, Belgium, Switzerland, Monaco,Quebec) but also in North Africa (Tunisia, Morocco), Gabon, Congo, the Middle East (Lebanon, Egypt), Central Europe (Roumania), Madagascar, Vietnam, Cambodia....
Watch the international French Television TV5 Monde.
Listen to an Hymn to Francophonie.
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