Legend
Dark blue: Maternal language, with official status (including creoles)
Light blue: Official language, but not majority's maternal language
Striped blue: Administrative or educational language
Pale blue: Significant secondary language, without official status
Source https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LaFrancophonie2021.png#mw-jump-to-license
Posted by fbkpo
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The union teritory of Pondichery in India should be light blue as well.
They really loved to colonise. Shame no one seems to criticise them for it
The first time meeting Canadians who could barely speak English was pretty crazy for me
Damn even got the split in New Brunswick pretty good
Fr*nch 🤮🤮🤮
I have a distinct memory of a similar map on my French Teacher’s wall titled “Le Monde Francophone”
French speaking world is shrinking. Some African countries have decided to no more use French as an official language.
Aren’t there majority english areas in Quebec? Like only one or two but still.
Including creoles doesn’t make any sense
In Kanton Zürich french is not a official language, but blue in the map (same goes for most of switzerland)
Moet Dutch can speak some French, depending on education level and age. Should be a bit more blue than most of Canada
What’s that big dark blue region in Europe?
If Anglo Canada is darker than the Maghreb, and I haven’t met anyone who can make a sentence in French there, then the Maghreb must only know how to say bonjour
What are the light blue dots in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam?
Also I wonder what percentage of those African countries actually actively speak French and how much is just official use in Parliament etc, if even that
Fun fact: There’s a Union Territory in India one of whose official languages is French.
I’m going to quibble with Luxembourg being dark blue, should be light blue.
French has official status and is used for administration and law, but it is not a maternal language. Luxembourgish is the local maternal language, which is a German dialect and Luxembourgers learn their French from school.
Fun fact: Congo, D.R. is the largest French speaking country in the world, and the 1st language native speakers are projected to keep on increasing.
Also, does anyone really have French as a mother tongue in Vanuatu?
As others said, Puducherry should be ligh blue, and creoles, IMO, should be light blue, because they’re different languages.
Map is wrong: French has no official status in Flanders (northern half of Belgium) actually, except as a recognised minority language “with legal facilities” in very few municipalities alongside the borders with Wallonia and Bruxelles
Louisiana doesn’t have an official language.
Blasphemy; !!the official language of north Belgium is Dutch ! ( and specifically not French 🙂
Finally a map that showcases that French is mostly spoken in the big urban regions of Africa, bravo!
the world is scarred
Vive le Québec libre!