What a strange question. Why is English spoken in England, German in Germany, etc.?
It is a language (Castilian) with several dialects which has evolved over many centuries from an indigenous tongue plus Latin and Arabic, within the Iberian Peninsula.
French is one of the native languages spoken in Belgium.
Canada, France
They spoke Norman French.
Galician is spoken in the region of Galicia, which is an autonomous community in northwest Spain.
French is not one of their official languages. They are Somali and Arabic.
The three major languages spoken in Portugal are Portuguese, Mirandese, and Portuguese Sign Language. Portuguese is the official language and is widely spoken throughout the country, while Mirandese is a regional language spoken in some areas. Portuguese Sign Language is used by the deaf community.
Yes, French is one of the many languages that may be heard spoken in Aruba. The official languages are Dutch and Papiamento. Papiamento is a creole language derived from Portuguese with vocabulary from African languages, Arawak native languages, and English. Other spoken languages include Chinese, English, German, Spanish, and Portuguese.
French was ONE of the languages that were spoken by immigrant's. Not a particular main language like it is in Canada.
It's still spoken in Romandie, at West of Belgium, and it's one of the four official languages, with German, Italian and Rumantch.
There are over 1,200 languages spoken in the Pacific, making it one of the most linguistically diverse regions in the world. Some of the commonly spoken languages in the Pacific include English, French, Spanish, Indonesian, and various indigenous languages such as Maori, Fijian, and Samoan.
The obvious one is French, being the only official language of France. However, throughout most of the country there are also many different regional languages spoken. In Midi-Pyrenees, these include Occitan (which is actually a much broader umbrella term for a subgroup of languages across the south and is part of an even wider subgroup of Oïl languages, which includes French itself. These Oïl languages themselves are a subgroup of the Romance languages category, which are all the languages descended from Latin) and, further south towards the Spanish border, Catalan (another Romance language which is similar to Spanish. This is spoken primarily in Andorra as the main language of the country but also throughout the Catalonia and Valencia regions of Spain, as well as parts of the French Pyrenees.)
French is one of the international languages because France colonized a lot of countries during the 19th Century. It is one of the most spoken languages in the world, next to Spanish and English.