European French

European French (French: français d'Europe, français européen) is the variety of French spoken in Europe, either in French speaking countries or area.

Geographic distribution[]

Knowledge of French in the European Union and candidate countries^[1]

Among varieties of European French, we can find:

• French of France, the predominant variety of the French language in France, Monaco and Andorra
• Belgian French, the variety of French language spoken mainly in the French Community of Belgium
• Swiss French, the variety spoken in the French-speaking area of Switzerland
• , the variety spoken in the French-speaking area of Luxembourg

And also:

• Jersey Legal French, the official dialect of French used administratively in Jersey.
• Aostan French, the variety of French spoken in the Aosta Valley, Italy.

References[]

Further reading[]

• Françoise Gadet (March 1996). "Variabilité, variation, variété: le français d'Europe". Journal of French Language Studies (in French): 75–98. doi:10.1017/S0959269500004981. ISSN 0959-2695. Wikidata Q104115899.
• "Documents pour l'étude du français d'Europe". Canadian Journal of Linguistics (in French): 80–93. 1958. doi:10.1017/S0008413100025469. ISSN 0008-4131. Wikidata Q104117166.
• François Poiré; Veranika Barysevich (2014). "La réalisation accentuelle des mots de fonction dans différents styles de parole du français européen" (PDF). Nouveaux cahiers de linguistique française (in French): 21–32. ISSN 1661-8246. Wikidata Q104117216.

See also[]

• French language, a Romance language
• French (disambiguation)
• European English