Editing Languages of France (section)

==List of languages==
{{Pie chart|thumb=right|caption=Mother tongues of the French population (2007 AES)|label1=[[French language|French]]|value1=87.2|color2=Green|label3=[[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]|value3=1.5|color3=Brown|label4=[[Spanish language|Spanish]]|value4=1.2|color4=Yellow|label5=[[Italian language|Italian]]|value5=1.0|color5=MediumSeaGreen|label6=[[German language|German]]|value6=0.7|color6=Red|label7=[[Turkish language|Turkish]]|value7=0.5|color7=Pink|label8=[[English language|English]]|value8=0.4|color8=Indigo|label9=Other languages|value9=3.9|color9=Chartreuse}}According to the 2007 Adult Education survey, part of a project by the [[European Union]] and carried in France by the [[Insee]] and based on a sample of 15,350 people, French was the mother tongue of 87.2% of the total population, Portuguese (1.5%, 960,000), Spanish (1.2%, 770,000) and Italian (1.0%, 640,000). People who spoke other languages natively made up the remaining 5.2% of the population.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gesis.org/en/missy/metadata/AES/2007/Cross-sectional/original#2007-Cross-sectional-MOTHTONG1|title=GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences|website=www.gesis.org|language=en|access-date=2018-04-24}}</ref>

===National language===
* [[French language|French]]

===Regional languages===
The regional languages of Metropolitan France include:

====Celtic====
{{See also|Celtic languages}}
* [[Breton language|Breton]] (Brezhoneg)
** [[Viscounty of Léon|Léonard]] (Leoneg)
** [[Cornouaille|Cornouaillais]] (Kerneveg)
** [[Trégor]]rois (Tregerieg)
** [[Vannetais]] (Gwenedeg)

====Germanic====
{{See also|Germanic languages}}
* [[Alsatian dialect|Alsatian]] (Elsässerditsch)
* [[French Flemish]]: [[West Flemish]] dialect of [[Dutch language|Dutch]]
* [[Lorraine Franconian]] (Lothringisch)
* [[Yenish language|Yenish]] (Jenisch)
* [[Yiddish]]

====Italo-Dalmatian====
{{See also|Italo-Dalmatian languages|Tuscan dialect}}
* [[Corsican language|Corsican]] (Corsu)

====Gallo-Romance====
{{See also|Gallo-Romance languages}}
* [[Langues d'oïl|Oïl language]]:
** [[Berrichon]]
** [[Burgundian language (Oïl)|Bourguignon-Morvandiau]]
** [[Champenois]] or Campanois
** [[Frainc-Comtou dialect|Franc-Comtois]]
** [[French language|French]]
** [[Gallo language|Gallo]]
** [[Lorrain language|Lorrain]]
** [[Norman language|Norman]]
** [[Picard language|Picard]]
** [[Poitevin-Saintongeais]]
** [[Walloon language|Walloon]]
** [[Angevin (language)|Angevin]]
* [[Occitan language]] (also ''Lenga d'òc, Langue d'oc''):
** [[Vivaroalpenc]]
*** [[Mentonasc dialect|Mentonasc]] (Mentonnais or Mentonasque)
** [[Auvergnat]]
** [[Gascon dialect|Gascon]] including [[Béarnese dialect|Béarnese]] (Béarnais) and [[Landese]] (Landais)
** [[Languedocien dialect|Languedocien]]
** [[Limousin dialect|Limousin]]
** [[Provençal dialect|Provençal]]
*** [[Nissart language|Nissart]] (Niçois or Niçart)
* [[Catalan language|Catalan]]
* [[Franco-Provençal language|Franco-Provençal]] (also ''Arpitan''):
** [[Bressan language|Bressan]]
** [[Franco-Provençal language#Dialects|Dauphinois]]
** [[Forèzien language|Forézien]]
** [[Jurassien language|Jurassien]]
** [[Lyonnais language|Lyonnais]]
** [[Savoyard dialect|Savoyard]]
* [[Gallo-Italic languages|Gallo Italic]]
** [[Ligurian language (Romance)|Ligurian language]]
***[[Royasc]]

====Others====
* [[Basque language|Basque]] (Euskara)
* [[Romani language|Romani]]

===Overseas languages===
There are also several languages spoken in France's overseas areas (see [[Administrative divisions of France]] for details):

* [[Amerindian]] languages in [[French Guiana]]
* [[French-based creole languages]] in the [[French West Indies]] (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Martin, and Saint Barthélemy), [[French Guiana]], and [[Réunion]] (see: [[Antillean Creole]], [[Haitian Creole]], [[French Guiana Creole]] and [[Réunion Creole]]);
** also [[Dutch language|Dutch]], and [[English language|English]] in [[Saint Martin (island)|Saint Martin]];
** also Saint-Barths Patois (local derivation from regional dialects of French in France), and English in [[Saint Barthélemy]]
* Many [[Austronesian languages|Austronesian]] languages:
** several languages in [[New Caledonia]] (see: [[New Caledonian languages]], [[Loyalty Island languages]])
** two languages in [[Wallis & Futuna]] (see: [[Wallisian language]], [[Futunan language]])
** many languages in [[French Polynesia]] ([[Tahitian language|Tahitian]] and other [[Eastern Polynesian languages]])
** [[Bushi language|Shibushi]] in [[Mayotte]]
* [[Maore dialect|Shimaore]] (a [[Bantu language]]) in [[Mayotte]]

===Sign language===
[[French Sign Language]] is also recognised as a language of France (with at least one regional variant in Provence).{{Citation needed|date=October 2022}}

===Immigrant languages===
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A large number of immigrant languages are spoken in France, with a handful having a significant number of home speakers. (Figures as of 2000)<ref name="autogenerated1"/>

====Main immigrant languages====
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* [[Italian language|Italian]]: spoken by Italian communities in many major French cities, especially in southern regions, such as [[Nice]], [[Savoie]], and [[Corsica]]. {{citation needed|date=March 2015}} About 790,000 speakers, excluding [[Languages of Italy|Italian dialects]].
* [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]: spoken by about 700,000 people.
* [[English language|English]]: significant British minorities in [[Aquitaine]] and [[Brittany]], as well as commuters working in the UK but living in [[Nord-Pas-de-Calais]]. Dispersed minorities in Paris and on the [[Côte d'Azur]] (French Riviera). The most widely taught foreign language in the French education system, but not widely used and understood except in specific job positions (chiefly technical and tourism). About 325,000 home speakers.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}}
* [[Polish language|Polish]]: spoken by about 130,000 people<ref>{{cite web |url=https://joshuaproject.net/languages/pol|title=Language: Polish |work=[[Joshua Project]]}}</ref>{{better source|date=July 2019}}
* [[Tamil language|Tamil]]: spoken by about 125,000 people <ref>{{Citation |last=Lack |first=Roland-François |title=Lumière, Méliès, Pathé and Gaumont: French filmmaking in the suburbs, 1896–1920 |date=2018-03-16 |work=Screening the Paris suburbs |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526106858.003.0003 |access-date=2024-07-16 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=978-1-5261-0685-8}}</ref>
* [[Turkish language|Turkish]]: spoken by about 221,000 people<ref>{{cite web |url=https://joshuaproject.net/languages/tur?limit=50 |title=Turkish |work=Joshua Project}}</ref>{{better source|date=July 2019}}
* [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]]: the most spoken Asian language in France, spoken by about 324,000 people<ref>{{cite web |url=https://joshuaproject.net/languages/vie |title=Language: Vietnamese |work=Joshua Project}}</ref>{{better source|date=July 2019}}
* [[German language|German]] and [[German dialects]]: spoken by about 300,000 people. Figure includes both standard German and other dialects of [[High German]]. See [[Alsatian dialect|Alsatian]] and [[Lorraine Franconian]], spoken respectively in [[Alsace]] and [[Lorraine]].
*[[Kurdish languages]] – 200,000 (2014 estimate)<ref>{{cite book |title=The Linguistic Integration of Adult Migrants : some lessons from research |date=2017 |publisher=[[Council of Europe]] |isbn=9783110477498 |page=133}}</ref>