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French
GENERAL INFORMATION
Number of speakers: More than 68 million speakers worldwide; 2.07 million speakers
above the age of 5 in the United States (U.S. Census, 2010)
Writing system: Latin script
Language Family: Indo‐European—Italic—Romance
Official language in: France, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Canada, Madagascar,
Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Niger, Senegal, Mali, Rwanda, Belgium, Guinea, Chad,
Haiti, Burundi, Benin, Switzerland, Togo, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo,
Gabon, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Djibouti, Luxembourg, Vanuatu, Seychelles, and
Monaco.
DEVELOPMENTAL NORMS FOR SPEECH
Age Sounds
<36 months /p, t, m, n, f, z, ɲ/
29
36‐53 months /b, d, k, g, v, l, w, ʁ, ɥ/ 29
53+ months /s, j, ʃ, ʒ/
(Rvachew et al., 2013)
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