Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p This article addresses French language spoken in Africa. For immigrants to France from Africa, please see African immigration to France.African French (French: français africain) is the generic name of the varieties of French spoken by an estimated 115 million (2007) people in Africa spread across 15 francophone countries. This includes those who speak French as a first or second language in these 31 francophone African countries (dark blue on the map), but it does not include French speakers living in non-francophone African countries. Africa is thus the continent with the most French speakers in the world. French arrived in Africa as a colonial language. These African French speakers are now an important part of the Francophonie.French is mostly a second language in Africa, but in some areas it has become a first language, such as in the region of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire or Libreville, Gabon. In some countries it is a first language among some classes of the population, such as in Tunisia and Morocco where French is a first language among the upper classes (many people in the upper classes are simultaneous bilinguals in Arabic/French), but only a second language among the general population.In each of the francophone African countries French is spoken with local specificities in terms of pronunciation and vocabulary.. }
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- African_French abstract "This article addresses French language spoken in Africa. For immigrants to France from Africa, please see African immigration to France.African French (French: français africain) is the generic name of the varieties of French spoken by an estimated 115 million (2007) people in Africa spread across 15 francophone countries. This includes those who speak French as a first or second language in these 31 francophone African countries (dark blue on the map), but it does not include French speakers living in non-francophone African countries. Africa is thus the continent with the most French speakers in the world. French arrived in Africa as a colonial language. These African French speakers are now an important part of the Francophonie.French is mostly a second language in Africa, but in some areas it has become a first language, such as in the region of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire or Libreville, Gabon. In some countries it is a first language among some classes of the population, such as in Tunisia and Morocco where French is a first language among the upper classes (many people in the upper classes are simultaneous bilinguals in Arabic/French), but only a second language among the general population.In each of the francophone African countries French is spoken with local specificities in terms of pronunciation and vocabulary.".