Francophone
Member, French-speaking world
Capitalized Francophone emphasizes membership in the global French-speaking community as a cultural or political identity, not merely linguistic ability.
Francophone nations, the Francophone world.
La Francophonie refers to the international organization of French-speaking countries.
The capitalized form treats French-speaking as an identity category parallel to other proper adjectives. (Lowercase francophone is the neutral adjective.)
Western European republic
- QuebecFrench-speaking Canadian province
- BelgiumWestern European constitutional monarchy
- SwitzerlandAlpine republic, perpetually neutral
- SenegalWest African republic
Haiti · Cameroon · Maghreb · Acadia · Louisiana · Congo · Madagascar · Martinique
Scattered population sharing origins
- expatriateOne living abroad permanently
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- minoritySmaller part of whole
- communityCollective of connected people
assimilation · integration · allophone · Québécois · Cajun
Characteristic cooking style
- literatureBody of written works
- cinemaMotion picture theater
- chansonFrench vocal composition
- caféCasual eatery serving drinks
terroir · bistro · couture · negritude · Molière · Godard · impressionism
Cultural arm of UN
Science of language sounds
- morphologyStudy of structural forms
- semanticsStudy of linguistic meaning
- pragmaticsLanguage-in-context study
- sociolinguisticsStudy of language variation
France
Western European republic
- QuebecFrench-speaking Canadian province
- BelgiumWestern European constitutional monarchy
- SwitzerlandAlpine republic, perpetually neutral
Senegal · Haiti · Cameroon · Maghreb · Acadia · Louisiana · Congo · Madagascar · Martinique · Guadeloupe
diaspora
Scattered population sharing origins
- expatriateOne living abroad permanently
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- minoritySmaller part of whole
community · assimilation · integration · allophone · Québécois · Cajun
cuisine
Characteristic cooking style
- literatureBody of written works
- cinemaMotion picture theater
- chansonFrench vocal composition
café · terroir · bistro · couture · negritude · Molière · Godard · impressionism
UNESCO
Cultural arm of UN
phonology
Science of language sounds
- morphologyStudy of structural forms
- semanticsStudy of linguistic meaning
- pragmaticsLanguage-in-context study
sociolinguistics · dialectology · phonetics · code-switching · diglossia
- French dialectsQuebecois, Cajun French, Cajun, Norman, patois
- FranceParis, Notre-Dame, Lyon, croissant, Toulouse
- colonialismcolony, colonization, colonial rule, colonial powers, colonizer
- Canadian PeoplesFirst Nations, Inuit, Metis, Cree, Ojibwe
- Francophone AfricaSenegal, Mali, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Niger
- Francophone literature
FrancophoneAnglophone
Person from English-speaking community
English-speaking · Hispanophone · Spanish-speaking · Portuguese-speaking
FrancophoneAnglophone
Person from English-speaking community
Commonwealth · Hispanophone · Anglosphere · British colonial · Spanish colonial