User:Kadiatou Keita/sandbox

The article that I would like to contribute to would be the French article. I would contribute more to the Africa section and how much more different African French can be to France French. I do not think they elaborated more on the origins of French in Africa. I also think they should elaborate more on the history of the French language. For instance, they can expand more on Modern French. Those sections seem to be very sparse and shallow in their detail and description.

Article evaluation:

Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?

-Everything is relevant to the article. However, there are instances where the article does go off on a tangent and as the reader, some of the language used is not simple.

Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?

-The article is neutral as does not use I/we or you in the passages.

Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?

-There are viewpoints that are underrepresented in the article. For instance, the sections that talk about the old history of the French languages like the Modern French section is very small. It also does not have a main article written about it, so more information for it needs to be included.

Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?

-most of the links work for the article and it generally supports the claims made in the article.

Responce to Peer Evaluation:

I will implement the second part of the changes I was planning to make as the first part already has articles on it and I agree that it would be a bit redundent.

Thank you for your feedback.

Working the Modern French section in the article.

Possible sources:

Leune, Albert. Difficult Modern French; Extraits Choisis Parmi Les plus Difficiles De La LittéRature Moderne. Boston, Ginn & Company, 1894.

Gaillard, J. D. The Modern French Method: a Natural, Attractive, and Certain Mode of Acquiring the Art of Thinking, Speaking and Composing in the French Language: Based upon the Principle of "Association of Ideas". New York, D. Appleton, and Company, 1884.

Africa

Main article: African French

  Countries usually considered part of Francophone Africa. Their population was 392 million in 2015 and it is forecast to reach 847 million in 2050.   Countries sometimes considered as Francophone Africa   Countries that are not Francophone but are Members or Observers of the OIF A bulk of the world's French-speaking population lives in Africa. According to the 2007 report by the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, an estimated 115 million African people spread across 31 Francophone countries can speak French as either a first or a second language. This number does not include the people living in non-Francophone African countries who have learned French as a foreign language. Due to the rise of French in Africa, the total French-speaking population worldwide is expected to reach 700 million people in 2050. French is the fastest growing language on the continent (in terms of either official or foreign languages).

French is mostly a second language in Africa, but it has become a first language in some urban areas, such as the region of Abidjan, Ivory Coast and in Libreville, Gabon. There is not a single African French, but multiple forms that diverged through contact with various indigenous African languages.

Sub-Saharan Africa is the region where the French language is most likely to expand, because of the expansion of education and rapid population growth. It is also where the language has evolved the most in recent years. Some vernacular forms of French in Africa can be difficult to understand for French speakers from other countries, but written forms of the language are very closely related to those of the rest of the French-speaking world.

 Modern French

During the 17th century, French replaced Latin as the most important language of diplomacy and international relations (lingua franca) in the 17th century. It retained this role until approximately the middle of the 20th century, when it was replaced by English as the United States became the dominant global power following the Second World War. Stanley Meisler of the Los Angeles Times said that the fact that the Treaty of Versailles was also written in English as well as French was the "first diplomatic blow" against the language.

The Grand Siècle or the great century was a century where under the rule of powerful leaders such as Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIV, France enjoyed a period of prosperity. In order to keep their absolute power or belief or divine rights, Richelieu established the Académie française to protect the French language.The Académie removed many words previously used that was unique to the provinces in France. Written and spoken French became more practical. One example of a change was the removal of the sound on the plural “s” silent was established. This was the attempt to make french less flowery and more acceptable in diplomacy rather than poetry. By 1714, French, which had become the primary language of the aristocracy. During the first World War I in 1914-1919, French became the language of international diplomacy pushing it towards modern speech.