French
Family/group:
Indo-European (Romance)
Number of speakers:
51 million in France (ca 124 million total)
Where spoken:
France, Canada, Belgium Switzerland,
Monaco, Luxembourg, many parts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas.
Script:
Roman
French
is an official language in 30 countries. Historically there were two
distinct dialects: langue d�o� l in northern France, and langue
d�oc in the south. the latter lives on in the current dialect of
Provence. Between the 18th century and World War I French was
the official language for international treaties.