French has 51,000,000 first language speakers in France; 6,000,000 in Canada, 1,100,000 in USA, 40,000 in Israel. Also in Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Haiti, French Guiana, Monaco, Austria, Africa, Southwest Asia, French Polynesia, other former colonies. There are over 120,000,000 speakers worldwide.
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