|region = [[EuropeEropa]], the [[AmericasBenua Amerika]], [[AfricaAfrika]], [[Asia]], anddan [[OceaniaOseania]]
|speakers = 200 millionjuta (2005) (nativebahasa and first language speakersibu)<ref name="tlfq.ulaval.ca">{{cite web|url=http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/francophonie/OIF-francophones-est2005.htm |title=Estimation du nombre de francophones dans le monde en 2005 |publisher=Tlfq.ulaval.ca |date= |accessdate=2010-04-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Jacques Leclerc |url=http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/francophonie/francophonie.htm |title=Francophonie (Qu'est-ce que la?) |publisher=Tlfq.ulaval.ca |date= |accessdate=2010-04-21}}</ref> and by an estimated 500 million francophones worldwide, (2000)<ref name="Jacques Leclerc">{{cite web|author=Jacques Leclerc |url=http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/francophonie/francophonie.htm |title=Francophonie |publisher=Tlfq.ulaval.ca |date= |accessdate=2010-04-21}}</ref><ref name=ulaval /><ref name="ethnologue 2000">{{cite web |url= http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_language.asp?code=FRN |title=French |FRENCH: a language of France|author=ethnologue |year=2000 |work=Ethnologue: Languages of the World |edition=14th |publisher=Ethnolouge.}}</ref>