French language

The French language (= la langue française/la l ɑ̃ g and the following ʀɑ̃ˈ sɛz/, own name français/f ʀɑ̃ˈ see ɛ/) belongs to the Romanesque group of the italischen branch of the indogermanischen languages., Among the rest, with it this language is used with the Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Roumanian.
In French is valid as a Weltsprache, because it is spoken of more than 100 million speakers on all continents in more than 50 countries and is learnt worldwide often as a foreign language. French is, among the rest, official language in France, Canada, Switzerland, Belgium, Haiti and numerous countries in west and Zentralafrika, while it is widespread in Arabian-speaking North Africa and in Indo-China as a Nebensprache. Besides, it is one of the Amtssprachen of the EU, officialese of the African union and the organisation of American states and one of six Amtssprachen as well as with English sole Arbeitssprache of UN.
The French language is adjusted by the Académie française, the so-called Loi Toubon (a law of the protection of the French language in France), the office québécois de la langue française, an official authority of québec, the service de la langue française, a Belgian institution to the care of the French language, as well as the Délégation générale à la langue française et aux langues de France.