French America ( French : Amérique française ), sometimes called Franco-America , in contrast to Anglo-America , is the French-speaking community of people and their diaspora , notably those tracing back origins to New France , the early French colonization of the Americas . The Canadian province of Quebec is the centre of the community and is the point of origin of most of French America. It also includes communities in all provinces of Canada (especially in New Brunswick , where francophones are roughly one third of the population), Saint Pierre and Miquelon , Saint Martin , Saint Barthélemy , Martinique , Guadeloupe (all are parts of France), Saint Lucia and Haiti in the Caribbean; French Guiana (overseas region of France) in South America. Also there are minorities of French speakers in part of the United States ( New England , Louisiana , Mississippi , Florida , Texas , California , Illinois and New York ), the Dominican Republic , Dominica , Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago .
5-654: The Ordre des francophones d'Amérique is a decoration given in the name of the community to its members. It can also be described as the Francophonie of the Americas. Because French is a Romance language , French America is sometimes considered to be part of Latin America , but this term more often refers to Hispanic America and Portuguese America , or simply the Americas south of the United States. This
10-684: A Council under the name of Conseil supérieur de la langue française . It was initially created in 1977 with the adoption of the Charter. The mandate of the Quebec Council is to "advise the minister responsible for the application of the Charter of the French language on any question relative to the French language in Quebec." Specifically, the Council may: In order to carry out its mission,
15-513: Is a list of countries, administrative divisions , and French possessions in the Americas having the French language as an official language or where a French-based creole language is commonly spoken. The data of each place are based in the 2012–2013 census. This article about Romance languages is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Conseil sup%C3%A9rieur de la langue fran%C3%A7aise (Quebec) The Conseil supérieur de la langue française (English: Superior Council of
20-555: The Council may: In addition, it may inform the public on any question relative to the French language in Quebec. The Council is made up of eight members appointed by the government: The council has conducted many studies since 1978, most of which are available online for consultation. The studies touch various subjects from linguistic human rights , language shifts and assimilation , language planning , quality of written and spoken language , terminology , language demographics , challenges to linguistic and cultural diversity in
25-696: The French Language ) is an advisory council in Quebec , Canada , whose mission is "to advise the minister responsible for the application of the Charter of the French language on any question relative to the French language in Quebec". It works in close collaboration with equivalent bodies in France , Belgium and Switzerland . Section 185 of the Quebec Charter of the French Language establishes
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