{"id":672,"date":"2010-03-19T09:42:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T09:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=672"},"modified":"2010-03-28T16:52:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T16:52:58","slug":"french-language-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/19\/french-language-day\/","title":{"rendered":"French Language Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/French.jpeg\" alt=\"French\" title=\"French\" width=\"91\" height=\"94\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-673\" \/>On February 21st I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/21\/international-mother-language-day-2010\/\">posted<\/a> about International Mother Language Day, and mentioned that the UN was also launching a new initiative called UN Language Days.<\/p>\n<p>Well, today is the first of those days, with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/language\/french.html\">French<\/a> language being celebrated. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFrench, as a working language of the UN and one that is spoken on all continents, plays an important role in spreading the message of the United Nations in the world,\u201d said Kiyo Akasaka, Under-Secretary-General for the Department of Public Information (DPI) and Coordinator for Multilingualism at the UN. (Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www0.un.org\/apps\/news\/story.asp?NewsID=34136&#038;Cr=multilingualism&#038;Cr1=\">UN<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here are a few facts about French to help get you started with your celebration:<\/p>\n<ul>\nFrench is a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Romance_languages\">Romance language<\/a> descended from Latin<\/ul>\n<ul>\nAround 75 million people speak French as their mother tongue<\/ul>\n<ul>\nIt is spoken officially in <a href=\"http:\/\/french.about.com\/od\/francophonie\/ss\/whatisfrench_4.htm (fact 2\">33 countries<\/a> <\/ul>\n<ul>\nApart from the UN, French is used as an official working language in many organisations \u2013 including Amnesty International, the International Olympic Committee, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the International Criminal Court<\/ul>\n<ul>\nThere are 16 vowels in French<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 21st I posted about International Mother Language Day, and mentioned that the UN was also launching a new initiative called UN Language Days. Well, today is the first of those days, with the French language being celebrated. \u201cFrench, as a working language of the UN and one that is spoken on all continents, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,35,4,621],"tags":[4,310,617,674,424,621,623,673],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-events","category-french","category-un-language-days","tag-french","tag-french-language","tag-international-mother-language-day","tag-mother-tongue","tag-romance-languages","tag-un-language-days","tag-un-languages","tag-working-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}