french

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french(le francais) is a romance language of the indo-european family.
法语是印欧语系的一种浪漫语言。

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it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire,
as did all Romance languages.

就像所有的浪漫语言一样，它起源于罗马帝国的通俗拉丁语。

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French has evolved from Gallo-Romance,the spoken Latin in Gaul,
and more specifically in Northern Gaul.

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Its closest relatives are the other Langues d'oïl
-languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium,
which French(Francien) has largely supplanted.

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French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like
Gallia Belgica and by the (Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders.

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Today,owing to France's past overseas expansion,there are numerous French-based creole languages,
most notably Haitian Creole.

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A french-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French.

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French is an official language in 29 countries across five different continents,
most of which are members of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie(OIF),
the community of 84 countries which share the official use or teaching of French.

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It is spoken as a first language(in descending order of the number of speakers) in France,
Canadian provinces of Quebec,Ontario and New Brunswick
as well as other Francophone regions,
Belgium(Wallonia and the Brussels-Captial Region),