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Preferred term

fraFrench  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • French ( or ) is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the province of Quebec and the Acadia region in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts of the world, the largest numbers of which reside in Francophone Africa. In Africa, French is most commonly spoken in Gabon (where 80% report fluency) and 110 million native speakers and 190 million second language speakers. French is the second-most studied foreign language in the world, after English.

Entry terms

  • French language

ISO 639-1 code

  • fr

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • fre

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • fra

ISO 639-3 code

  • fra

Notation

  • fra

In other languages

  • français

    French

  • Français
  • Französisch

    German

  • Französische Sprache
  • francese

    Italian

  • Lingua francese
  • francês

    Portuguese

  • Língua francesa
  • francés

    Spanish

  • Idioma francés

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/fra

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