Does anybody know what the French people speak in France??

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Rillifane

Since France is a cosmopolitian country with many immigrant groups the previous answers are valid in lisitng some of these groups.

But I suspect that what is called for here is a lisiting of languages that are long established in France rather than relatively recent additions created primarily by 20th century post colonial immigration.

These would be, in addition to "standard" French, Alsatian, Basque; Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Flemish, Franco-ProvenГ§al, Lorraine Franconian, Occitan, and OГЇl .

86% speak standard French, 2.12% speak Alsatian or other Germanic dialects, 1.33% speak Occitan, 1.25% speak OГЇl languages, 0.61% speak Breton.

NB: It occurs to me to mention that Standard French derives from the Langues d'oГЇl. But when referring to OГЇl today I mean those languages that derive from the Langues d'oГЇl other than standard French such as Champenois and Bourguignon.

Mark S

French Republic, RГ©publique Francaise. 60,424,213. National or official language: French. Literacy rate: 99% (1991 WA). Also includes Adyghe, Algerian Spoken Arabic (660,000), Armenian (70,000), Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Central Atlas Tamazight (150,000), Central Khmer (50,000), Chru, GiГЎy (100), Hmong Daw (10,000), Iu Mien (700), Judeo-Moroccan Arabic, Judeo-Tunisian Arabic, Kabuverdianu (8,000), Kabyle (537,000), Khmu (500), Kirmanjki, Lao, Laz, Lesser Antillean Creole French (150,000), Mandjak, Moroccan Spoken Arabic (492,700), Northern Kurdish, Standard German, Tachelhit, Tai Dam (1,000), Tai DГіn, Tai NГјa, Tarifit, TГ y, Tunisian Spoken Arabic (212,900), Turkish (135,000), Vietnamese (10,000), Western Cham (1,000), Western Farsi (40,000), Western Yiddish, Wolof (34,500), Yeniche. Information mainly from M. Stephens 1976; P. Blanchet 1986; B. Comrie 1987. Blind population: 43,000 (1982 WCE). Deaf population: 3,506,839. Deaf institutions: 99. The number of languages listed for France is 32. Of those, 29 are living languages, 1 is a second language without mother-tongue speakers, and 2 are extinct.

Vladimir ILL

Existing communities in France speak their language :

spanish, portuguese, polish, russian, albanian, romanian, chinese, vietnamese, cambodian, laotian, indian ( french indian ports ), turkish, ukrainian, english, dutch - Some are minorities, some are really numerous.

But more or less, all those people succeed in speaking a colloquial french - probably the more closed on themselves being the chinese

Cabal

Here is a map of the different dialects/languages spoken in France in addition to French.
http://www.lexilogos.com/france_carte_dialectes.htm

In green you have the languages of OГЇl, as Rillifane said this is the root of the actual French language. In red you have the languages of Oc, which are much closer to Italian and Spanish. In yellow the Franco-provence, which are a mixture of the two.

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