A regional variety of French carrying its own phonology and vocabulary while remaining mutually intelligible with standard French, including a variety that developed largely apart from continental France. Belongs here: Cajun French and Quebec French, each recorded in this atlas's own graph as Descends From French. Does not belong here: a variety descending from any language other than French, or a French-lexified creole classified as its own language rather than a dialect.
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1. Wikipedia: French Language
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It is estimated to have about 310 million speakers, of which about 74 million are native speakers; it is spoken as a first language (in descending order of the number of speakers) in France, Canada (Quebec), Belgium (Wallonia and the Brussels-Capital Region), western Switzerland (Romandy region), Luxembourg, and Monaco.
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