French

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French belongs to the Romance branch of the Indo-European language family. French is an official language in 29 countries across multiple continents. French is also one of six official languages used in the United Nations.

French is estimated to have about 76 million native speakers; about 235 million daily, fluent speakers; and another 77–110 million secondary speakers who speak it as a second language to varying degrees of proficiency, mainly in Africa.