A French-speaking person, especially in a region where two or more languages are spoken.
adj.French-speaking.
Francophonic Fran'co·phon'ic (-fŏn'ĭk) adj.
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A French-speaking person, especially in a region where two or more languages are spoken.
adj.French-speaking.
Francophonic Fran'co·phon'ic (-fŏn'ĭk) adj.
The adjective francophone means French-speaking, typically as primary language,
whether referring to individuals, groups or places.
More rarely in English, the noun Francophone (also spelled with a small character 'f') is used for a natively
French-speaking person.[1][2]
In a narrower sense the notion of 'francophone' reaches beyond the dictionary definition of "French language speaker". The term specifically refers to people whose cultural background is primarily associated with French language, regardless of ethnic and geographical differences. The francophone culture beyond Europe is the legacy of the French colonial empire and that of Belgium (Congo, Burundi and Rwanda).
Mainly or partially francophone countries include France, Belgium (the Walloon Region is almost entirely francophone, and there is
a large French-speaking community in the Brussels-Capital Region and
a few bordering municipalities), Canada (the province of Quebec is mostly francophone, and there are large
French-speaking communities in Ontario and New
Brunswick), Switzerland, Haiti, Lebanon and the
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