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With 128 million “native and real speakers” worldwide and an estimate of close to 300 million persons speaking French overall, French appears only as the 16th most spoken native language, but as the 6th most spoken language in the world, after English, Chinese Mandarin, Spanish, Hindi and Russian.
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Mariani, J., Paroubek, P., Francopoulo, G., Max, A., Yvon, F., Zweigenbaum, P. (2012). The French Language in the European Information Society. In: Rehm, G., Uszkoreit, H. (eds) The French Language in the Digital Age. White Paper Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30761-4_8
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