Talk:Francophone
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Template:Transwikied to Wiktionary This term is no longer confused with the early French-language-only cellular telephone network MaxiTel. Although some people still use it to try to call up old Spanish dictators... --Mucho G. Usto
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Hence many people would only consider France as the only truly francophone country as other contries have French spoken by a minority of the population.
I'm pretty sure this is quite false: there are quite a number of countries which have French spoken by a majority of the population: Monaco, Haiti, probably Belgium, and almost certainly some of the Francophone African nations.
Anyway, the implication of this paragraph is rather questionable. It is true that in Canada, a 'francophone' is often understood as a native speaker of French and no other language. But I doubt that most of the people who interpret 'francophone' in that way would claim that Canada, Belgium, or Cameroon are not francophone nations. For that, all you would need would be a significant francophone minority. (At the least, they're all members of La Francophonie.) --Saforrest 23:04, May 13, 2005 (UTC)
