francization
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Francization (in American English, Canadian English, and Oxford English) or Francisation (in other British English and French; ), also known as Frenchification, is the expansion of French language use—either through willful adoption or coercion—by more and more social groups who had not before used the language as a common means of expression in daily life. As a linguistic concept, known usually as gallicization or gallicisation, it is the practice of modifying foreign words, names, and phrases to make them easier to spell, pronounce, or understand in French.
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- Africa
- Asia
- Europe
- England<span class="anchor" id="Great Britain"></span>
- France <span class="anchor" id="Within France"></span>
- Belgium
- Brussels and the Flemish periphery
- North America
- Canada
- Quebec
- New Brunswick
- Of the language
- See also
- References
Francization (in American English, Canadian English, and Oxford English) or Francisation (in other British English and French; ), also known as Frenchification, is the expansion of French language use—either through willful adoption or coercion—by more and more social groups who had not before used the language as a common means of expression in daily life. As a linguistic concept, known usually as gallicization or gallicisation, it is the practice of modifying foreign words, names, and phrases to make them easier to spell, pronounce, or understand in French.
According to the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), the figure of 220 million Francophones (French-language speakers) is underestimated because it only counts people who can write, understand and speak French fluently, thus excluding a majority of African French-speaking people, who do not know how to write.