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admitting new members based on loose criteria such as "significant second language learning" of French or parties interested in furthering the organisation's promotion of human rights, democracy, international cooperation, sustainable development, cultural and linguistic diversity, and education and training. Therefore, member states such as
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in 1880: "We also put aside four large countries, Senegal, Gabon, Cochinchina and
Cambodia, whose future from a "Francophone" point of view is still very doubtful, except perhaps for Senegal" (in French « Nous mettons aussi de côté quatre grands pays, le Sénégal, le Gabon, la Cochinchine, le
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Being merely a member state of the OIF does not automatically make a country or territory "francophone" in the sense of the language having a major role in its society, be it as a working language or a strong cultural heritage to the French language. This is in part due to the OIF increasingly
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where French is official or serves as an administrative or major secondary language, which spans 50 countries and dependencies across all inhabited continents. The vast majority of these are also member states of the
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2063:Christian Rioux, "Franco... quoi?",
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2035:"Francophonie"
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1929:
1896:
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1855:
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1852:
1849:
1846:
1845:
1832:
1822:
1821:
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1807:
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1797:
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2453:Malay world
2436:Persosphere
2093:2 September
2045:: 379–397.
2014:. July 2022
1707:19,103,017
947:New England
610:Switzerland
201:syntagmatic
106:L2-speakers
43:Francophobe
3449:Categories
3345:vocabulary
2480:Tamil list
2448:Indosphere
2412:Arab world
2346:Macedonian
2297:Anglophone
2191:Portuguese
2183:Iberophone
2018:9 February
1851:References
1811:Sprachraum
1710:7,375,547
1601:Puducherry
1515:Seychelles
1299:Martinique
1272:Guadeloupe
1191:Luxembourg
1164:Mauritania
958:3,677,647
556:Madagascar
485:3,855,100
479:11,061,000
452:11,491,000
425:13,457,000
398:14,904,000
371:48,925,000
344:66,394,000
317:population
2881:by region
2670:Potential
2424:Sinophone
2368:Ukrainian
2264:Romanian
2196:Lusophone
2065:Le Devoir
1770:Minnesota
1171:1,030,700
1056:Mauritius
1033:1,074,000
1006:1,435,000
979:1,519,000
955:9,525,067
952:2,179,000
940:Louisiana
914:1,284,000
911:2,249,000
884:2,540,000
860:1,267,000
857:3,363,000
830:3,518,000
803:3,554,000
779:1,240,192
776:3,703,000
749:3,777,000
722:4,306,000
695:4,640,000
668:4,906,000
641:5,404,000
614:5,889,000
587:6,321,000
560:7,729,000
533:8,815,000
506:9,325,000
482:9,984,670
401:2,381,741
374:2,344,858
276:Countries
2965:Mercosur
2938:Americas
2809:Polarity
2777:European
2693:American
2655:Emerging
2650:Regional
2602:Politics
2597:National
2592:Maritime
2572:Economic
2504:Category
2087:Archived
1867:Archived
1782:Cambodia
1717:See also
1245:Cambodia
1218:Djibouti
1174:397,960
1147:127,930
1012:240,535
985:103,347
917:495,800
863:489,200
836:132,000
782:478,841
647:105,900
566:226,658
512:124,503
458:183,650
448:Cameroon
431:172,410
404:919,595
377:905,354
350:213,011
242:Oceanian
3086:Eurasia
2848:Studies
2729:History
2720:Pacific
2708:Chinese
2567:Climate
2356:Russian
2292:English
2253:Italian
2220:Catalan
2208:Spanish
1791:Belgian
1774:Vietnam
1762:Lebanon
1492:100,000
1488:Vanuatu
1465:180,000
1461:Mayotte
1444:32,433
1438:195,000
1417:91,430
1414:236,800
1411:204,000
1384:237,000
1380:Comoros
1357:278,000
1330:288,000
1303:303,000
1276:336,000
1255:69,898
1252:181,035
1249:463,000
1222:508,000
1195:642,000
1168:656,000
1144:331,340
1141:693,000
1137:Vietnam
1120:10,169
1114:793,000
1087:799,000
1083:RĂ©union
1060:926,000
1029:Burundi
1009:622,984
982:267,668
880:Lebanon
833:342,000
809:21,925
755:94,926
752:245,857
728:44,310
725:114,763
701:75,951
698:196,712
691:Senegal
674:10,710
644:274,200
620:15,943
593:63,170
590:163,610
583:Tunisia
563:587,041
539:11,787
529:Belgium
509:322,462
455:475,650
428:446,550
421:Morocco
394:Algeria
347:551,695
301:Armenia
293:Romania
249:Origins
88:of the
3302:Global
3045:Europe
2891:Africa
2760:Theory
2713:Indian
2645:Middle
2633:Status
2577:Energy
2351:Polish
2309:German
2236:French
1952:7 July
1922:7 July
1839:Note:
1793:, and
1780:, and
1758:Canada
1701:Total
1681:
1654:
1627:
1607:10,000
1592:
1572:33,000
1546:39,000
1542:Monaco
1539:
1519:53,000
1512:
1498:4,706
1495:12,189
1485:
1458:
1441:84,000
1431:
1404:
1377:
1363:1,609
1350:
1336:7,172
1333:18,575
1323:
1296:
1269:
1242:
1228:8,960
1225:23,200
1215:
1188:
1161:
1134:
1117:26,338
1110:Rwanda
1107:
1080:
1053:
1039:9,915
1036:25,680
1026:
999:
972:
931:
904:
890:4,036
887:10,452
877:
850:
823:
806:56,785
796:
769:
745:Guinea
742:
715:
688:
671:27,750
661:
634:
617:41,291
580:
553:
536:30,528
526:
499:
475:Canada
472:
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364:
340:France
337:
299:, and
234:Creole
226:Slavic
141:
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3404:is a
3343:This
2703:Asian
2675:Super
2665:Great
2640:Small
2619:Smart
2614:Sharp
2559:Types
2396:Welsh
2386:Irish
2321:Dutch
2229:Other
2115:(OIF)
1843:only.
1818:Notes
1787:Swiss
1688:6,000
1661:8,000
1634:9,000
1595:India
1387:1,861
1360:4,167
1306:1,128
1279:1,628
1198:2,586
1090:2,511
1063:2,040
975:Gabon
853:Niger
826:Congo
718:Benin
664:Haiti
297:Egypt
230:Latin
3406:stub
3349:stub
3253:G8+5
2989:Asia
2624:Soft
2587:Hard
2582:Food
2458:list
2441:list
2429:list
2417:list
2361:list
2326:list
2314:list
2302:list
2268:list
2258:list
2246:list
2213:list
2201:list
2095:2019
2020:2023
1954:2016
1924:2016
1778:Laos
1613:186
1552:0.7
1525:176
1471:144
1407:Laos
1390:719
1309:436
1282:629
1201:998
1093:970
1066:788
907:Chad
799:Togo
772:Mali
309:Rank
264:The
199:are
195:and
148:The
3268:G77
3263:G24
3258:G20
2697:Pax
2047:doi
1990:doi
1986:140
1694:89
1691:230
1640:55
1637:142
1610:483
1578:20
1522:457
1468:374
240:or
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