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                   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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