Editing Languages of France (section)

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{{Languages of
| country   = France<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_243_en.pdf |title=Europeans and their Languages |publisher=Ec.europa.eu |access-date=2015-03-30}}</ref>
| image     = Langues de la France.svg
| image size= 300px
| caption   = Languages and dialects of [[metropolitan France]]
| official  = [[French language|French]]
| regional  = 
[[Alsatian dialect|Alsatian]]; [[Catalan language|Catalan]]; [[Basque language|Basque]]; [[Corsican language|Corsican]]; [[Breton language|Breton]]; [[Gallo language|Gallo]]; [[Occitan language|Occitan]]; some [[Walloon language|Walloon]]; [[West Flemish]]; [[Franco-Provençal language|Franco-Provençal]]; [[Savoyard dialect|Savoyard]]; [[Lorraine Franconian]]; [[French Guiana Creole]]; [[Antillean Creole|Guadeloupean Creole]]; [[Antillean Creole|Martiniquan Creole]]; [[Oïl languages]]; [[Réunion Creole]]; some twenty [[languages of New Caledonia]], [[Yenish language|Yenish]], the [[Maroon (people)|Maroon]] creoles and [[Indigenous languages of the Americas|Amerindian languages]] of [[French Guiana]]
| immigrant = <!--Please don't put too many languages here--> [[Arabic]], [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[German language|German]], [[Polish language|Polish]], [[Berber languages|Berber]], [[Turkish language|Turkish]], [[English language|English]], [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]]<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=http://www.ined.fr/fichier/t_publication/65/publi_pdf1_pop_et_soc_francais_376.pdf|title=La dynamique des langues en France au fil du XXe siècle|language=fr|publisher=Ined.fr|access-date=2015-03-30}}</ref>
| foreign   = English (39%) <br> Spanish (13%) <br> German (6%)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_386_en.pdf |title=SPECIAL EUROBAROMETER 386 Europeans and their Languages |publisher=ec.europa.eu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160106183351/http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_386_en.pdf |archive-date=2016-01-06 }}</ref>
| sign      = [[French Sign Language]]
| keyboard  = [[AZERTY]], [[BÉPO]]
| keyboard image = [[Image:French pc keyboard.svg|200px|AZERTY]]<br>[[File:KB_French_B%C3%89PO-NF_Z71-300.svg|200px|BÉPO]]
}}
{{Culture of France}}

[[French language|French]] is the sole [[official language]] in France according to the second article of the [[French Constitution]]. French, a [[Gallo-Romance language]], is spoken by nearly the entire population of France.

In addition to French, several [[regional language]]s are also spoken to varying degrees, such as [[Alsatian dialect|Alsatian]], a [[High German languages|German dialect]] (specifically [[Alemannic German|Alemannic]]; spoken by 1.44% of the national population); [[Basque language|Basque]], a [[language isolate]]; [[Breton language|Breton]], a [[Celtic language]] (spoken by 0.61%); [[Corsican language|Corsican]], an [[Italo-Dalmatian language]]; and various other [[Gallo-Romance languages]] ([[Langues d'oïl]] 1.25%, [[Occitan language|Occitan]] 1.33%). Some of these languages are also spoken in neighbouring countries, such as [[Belgium]], [[Germany]], [[Switzerland]], [[Italy]], [[Andorra]], or [[Spain]].