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1. French Language

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   The French language (\[fr] le français), a member of the Gallo-Romance subgroup of the Italic languages, is an official language in 29 countries and holds significant diplomatic and cultural weight globally. Its development from Vulgar Latin, brought to Gaul by the Roman Empire, has resulted in a language renowned for its precise articulation and its inherent melancholic quality, believed by some sociolinguists to stem from an excessive commitment to grammatical [gende…