Does egypt talk french too???????

Question

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what countries in the middle east talk french??

Answer 1

According to the government, french is the first official language. Highly educated Egyptians speak french as well as English. Most of the french speakers are from Greeks, and Armenians grandparents. English now is widely spoken in the red sea, Hurghada, Luxor, Cairo and Alexandria.

Answer 2

French is used in EGypt. But English is more widely spread.
THere are other countries also as Morocco, Tunisea, Lebanon and Algeria, that speak French too. But French is more common there than English.

Answer 3

French isn't widely spoken here in Egypt , arabic is the main language and English is so common too..

even the signs in the street are always in Arabic and english.

we have french schools here and few people speak french

in the middle east and North Africa,

Algeria Morocco and tunisia speak french , also lebanon i believe

Answer 4

Egyptians mainly speak arabic, but English is reasonably widely spoken. The French-speaking parts of North Africa are Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.

Lebanon is the only middle-eastern country where French was formerly widely spoken, although less so nowadays.

Answer 5

Yes, some people speak french in Egypt mainly because of the tourists business which is a widespread industry that many people depend on for their livelihood..

They speak many languages for the same reason.

Answer 6

More English then French.

Answer 7

it's spoken; although it's not an official language, the only official language is arabic

p.s. egypt's in africa, not the middle east

p.p.s. no middle eastern countries speak french, a lot of northern african states do because they were originally colonised by the french

Answer 8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language

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Countries where French is a national language:

Belgium
Benin
Burkina-Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Canada
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Democratic Republic of Congo
Djibouti
France
Gabon
Guinea
Haiti
Ivory Coast
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Mali
Monaco
Niger
Republic of Congo
Rwanda
Senegal
Seychelles
Switzerland
Togo
Vanuatu

It is important to note the distinction between institutional francophonie and cultural francophonie. Although French is not an official language in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Lebanon, it is widely used in literature and films

http://www.fll.vt.edu/French/francophonie.html

http://www.utm.edu/staff/globeg/profren.shtml

Answer 9

i'm an egyptian and of couse my mother tangue is arabic, and the majority here have the english as their 1st language after the arabic but there r so many who speak french as the 1st language, and those who had learned in a french school and i'm one of them...i have a good english and a better french...

Answer 10

the two main languages in Egypt is Arabic then English.

Egypt is not like Morocco or Algeria. lots of people dont speak French like others in morocco , algeria and tunisia