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height=12></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign=top colspan=2></td> <td valign=top width="330"><font face="Geneva, Arial" size=-1> </font> <table align=center> <tbody> <tr> <td>SIL code:&nbsp;</td> <td>FRN</td> </tr> <tr> <td>ISO 639-1:</td> <td><a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_iso639.asp?code=fr">fr</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>ISO 639-2(B):&nbsp;</td> <td><a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_iso639.asp?code=fre">fre</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>ISO 639-2(T):</td> <td><a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_iso639.asp?code=fra">fra</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table> <tbody> <tr valign=top> <td><i>Population</i></td> <td>51,000,000<font color="66999"> </font>first language speakers in France.&nbsp;Population total all countries 77,000,000 first language speakers (1999 WA), 128,000,000 including second language speakers (1999 WA).</td> </tr> <tr valign=top> <td><i>Region</i></td> <td>Also spoken in 53 other countries including Algeria, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, CAR, Chad, Comoros Islands, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, DRC, Djibouti, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon. </td> </tr> <tr valign=top> <td><i>Alternate&nbsp;names&nbsp;&nbsp;</i></td> <td>Fran&ccedil;ais</td> </tr> <tr valign=top> <td><i>Dialects</i></td> <td>STANDARD FRENCH, NORMAN (NORMAND), PICARD (ROUCHI, CHTIMI), WALLON (WALLOON), ANGEVIN, BERRICHON, BOURBONNAIS, BOURGUIGNON, FRANC-COMTOIS, GALLO, LORRAINE, POITEVIN, SANTONGEAIS.</td> </tr> <tr valign=top> <td><i>Classification</i></td> <td><a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=FRN">Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Gallo-Romance, Gallo-Rhaetian, O&iuml;l, French.</a></td> </tr> <tr valign=top> <td><i>Comments</i></td> <td>89% lexical similarity with Italian, 80% with Sardinian, 78% with Rheto-Romance, 75% with Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish, 29% with German, 27% with English. Investigation needed: intelligibility with Walloon, Picard Jèrrais. National language. Dictionary. Grammar. SVO. Deciduous forest. Intensive agriculturalists, industry, business. 80 meters. Christian. Bible 1530-1995.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td height="47"> <h2>Bibliography</h2> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td> <p>Desmarais, Nadia, 1967<br> Le français à l'Île Maurice, Dictionnaire de termes mauriciens, <br> Port-Louis, Imprimerie commerciale, 97 p. </p> <p>Robillard, Didier de<br> <a href="http://www.bibliotheque.refer.org/maurice/" target="_blank">Contribution &agrave; un Inventaire des particularit&eacute;s lexicales du Fran&ccedil;ais de l'Ile Maurice</a><br> Vances, Edicef </p> <p>Robillard, Didier de, 1992:<br> L'aménagement linguistique du français à l'Île Maurice: un exemple de réconciliation de la théorie et de la pratique? <br> in Espace Francophone, n°40, 1992, <br> J. Maurais, éd. pp. 121- 134. </p> <p>Robillard, Didier de (à paraître 1): <br> L'Île Maurice: un laboratoire d'étude de la francophonie à travers la problématique du  français régional mauricien ? <br> à paraître in n° spécial de Culture et pédagogie à l'occasion du Sommet francophone tenu à l'Île Maurice, <br> Port-Louis, Association mauricienne des enseignants de français, 21 p.</p> <p>Robillard, Didier de (à paraître 2): <br> Le langage des gens, c'est beaucoup leur maison: Perception et traitement des (variétés de) langues en contact dans la presse écrite à l'Île Maurice: étude d'une gestion de la  citation de langue autre à travers un sondage sur les  marques dans la presse . 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