French is a Romance language descended from Latin and is spoken on every continent. Counting native and second-language speakers, estimates now exceed 300 million, and the number is rising fastest in Africa; Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is often described as the largest French-speaking city in the world. French is official in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Monaco, Canada and more than twenty African countries, and it is one of the six official languages of the United Nations as well as a working language of the European Union. The Academie francaise has advised on usage since 1635, though everyday French cheerfully ignores some of its rulings. Regional varieties differ noticeably, from Belgian and Swiss French to the French of West Africa and the Caribbean.
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