What is an anglophone country?

: consisting of or belonging to an English-speaking population especially in a country where two or more languages are spoken.

What do you call someone who speaks English as a first language?

anglophone (noun) an English-speaking person.

What are anglophones?

Last Edited. February 5, 2021. In Canada, the word anglophone refers to someone whose first language is English: it is the one they use most often to speak, read, write and think, and the one they use most often at home. Being anglophone can also simply mean being able to speak the language fluently.

What is a Francophone country?

A francophone country is a country where French is the main or official language. French became an international language in the Middle Ages with the influence of the Kingdom of France. And in the 18th century, it became the languages of European courts and diplomacy.

What are Dutch speaking countries called?

the Netherlands
Dutch is spoken in the Netherlands, Belgium (Flanders) and Suriname. Dutch is also an official language of Aruba, Curaçao and St Maarten.

What do you call someone who speaks Dutch?

In both Belgium and the Netherlands, the native official name for Dutch is Nederlands.

What is francophone country?

A francophone country is a country where French is the main or official language. French became an international language in the Middle Ages with the influence of the Kingdom of France.

What is anglophone francophone?

We define francophones as those who indicated French as a mother tongue and filled out the NOP questionnaire in French, while anglophones refer to those who indicated English-only as their mother tongue and filled out the questionnaire in English.

What are the 49 French speaking countries?

French is the official language** in Belgium, Benin, Burkina, Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central, African, Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte, d’Ivoire, Democratic, Republic, of, the, Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial, Guinea, France, Guinea, Haiti, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Monaco, Niger, Republic, of, the, Congo.

What are the 8 Portuguese speaking countries?

As a result, Portuguese is now the official language of several independent countries and regions: Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, & São Tomé and Príncipe.

What country speaks German?

German is the most widely spoken mother language and an official language in four countries in the European Union: Germany, Austria, Belgium and Luxembourg. German is also an official language in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

What do you call a person from England?

Someone from England is called English (if indeed they are from England and not Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland). But calling someone English hints at pure English blood and is out of place in a country with millions of first, second and third generation immigrants.

What do others call us from around the world?

What others call us from around the world. We are English, though when separated into genders, we are Englishmen and Englishwomen. Though we are often referred to as ‘the British’, this is a tag that can also be used to refer to a person from Wales and a person from Scotland, since the three nations form Great Britain.

How do you describe a person born in England?

A person fom England is described as English if they’ve been born in England. Unlike the USA they are not described as Italian, French, German et al because of ancestral connections. English can then be divided into sub categories. These include Geordies, Brummies, Scousers,…

What do you call a person who can speak multiple languages?

I’d use a word I just coined, ‘xenoglot.’ As a cognate from ‘polyglot’ (speaker of many languages), and ‘monoglot’ (speaker of a single language), ‘xenoglot’ would mean ‘speaker of a foreign language,’ and what ‘foreign’ meant would vary depending on the country.