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Bilingual French-Arabic sign in Algiers. French is a lingua franca of Algeria according to the CIA World Factbook. [1] Algeria is the second largest Francophone country in the world in terms of speakers. [2] In 2008, 11.2 million Algerians (33%) could read and write in French. [3]
A Quebec French stop sign A Québécois French speaker, recorded in Slovenia. Quebec is the only province whose sole official language is French. Today, 71.2 percent of Quebecers are first language francophones. [16] About 95 percent of Quebecers speak French. [3]
The bank launched as ING Direct in August 1999 and operated out of the offices of its sister company ING Australia at 347 Kent Street, Sydney and then North Sydney. [23]In March 2001 the bank signed a lease on several floors of the 14-storey office building at 140 Sussex Street, Sydney; subsequent growth led to the bank taking on additional floors over the next five years, culminating in ING ...
In France, a civil solidarity pact (French: pacte civil de solidarité), commonly known as a PACS (pronounced), is a contractual form of civil union between two adults for organising their joint life.
Regions where French is an official or administrative language but not a majority native language Regions where French is an unofficial secondary language French is an official language in 27 independent nations and one of the top world languages after English with about 60 countries and territories having it as a de jure or de facto official ...
French military forces were stationed in Germany after the surrender of Germany at the conclusion of the Second World War. France was one of four powers allocated an occupation zone. The French zone of occupation (Troupes d’occupation en Allemagne (TOA)), occupation forces in Germany) existed from the end of the war until 10 August 1949.
The French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools bans wearing conspicuous religious symbols in French public (e.g., government-operated) primary and secondary schools. The law is an amendment to the French Code of Education that expands principles founded in existing French law, especially the constitutional requirement ...
Sylvius used the circumflex to indicate so-called "false diphthongs".Early modern French as spoken in Sylvius' time had coalesced all its true diphthongs into phonetic monophthongs; that is, a pure vowel sound, one whose articulation at both beginning and end is relatively fixed, and which does not glide up or down towards a new position of articulation.