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African languages spoken in the Ivory Coast. Concerning the phonetics and phonology of Ivorian French, it is not uncommon for the nasal phoneme to be produced as , specifically at the start of a word while the palato-alveolar fricatives and often possess a degree of difficulty in their pronunciation. An abundance of words from regional African languages are utilized as loanwords in Ivorian French and some meanings of French words have changed over time (ex. the term
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Laotian Ă©lite and the elderly population speak French, which is the diplomatic language of Laos.
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