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French language

French: It is one of the romance languages with national standing as the official tongue of France.

Number of French Speakers: 98 million speakers living principally in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, and parts of Africa

French Alphabet: The French alphabet has the same 26 letters as the English alphabet, but they are pronounced differently.

French Orthography: Hollyband regularly marks silent letters by placing a small cross underneath consonants and vowels that are to be left silent.

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French Language History: The emergence of accentual patterns led to the reduction or loss of many unstressed vowels. Only in French and Portuguese, however, did vowels before a nasal consonant undergo nasalization--compare French main, "hand," with Portuguese mao and Spanish and Italian mano.

French Language Enriched by: Latin language.

Unique Features of French: In southern France, Provençal, or Occitan, it is spoken by about 12 million people. Formerly more unified as a literary language, Provençal now consists of a series of local dialects.

French language is included in the Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (SAMPA) which is a computer-readable phonetic script using 7-bit printable ASCII characters based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

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