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French (or) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages.

French has evolved from Gallo-Romance, the spoken Latin in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul.

Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien) has largely supplanted.

French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the (Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders.

Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole.

A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as "Francophone" in both English and French.

The University of Ottawa (uOttawa or U of O) is a bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

The main campus is located on in the residential neighbourhood of Sandy Hill, adjacent to Ottawa's Rideau Canal.

The university offers a wide variety of academic programs, administered by ten faculties.

It is a member of the U15, a group of research-intensive universities in Canada.

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now the global lingua franca.

Named after the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that migrated to England, it ultimately derives its name from the Anglia (Angeln) peninsula in the Baltic Sea.

It is most closely related to the Frisian languages, although its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages in the early medieval period, and later by Romance languages, particularly French.

English is either the official language or one of the official languages in almost 60 sovereign states.

It is the most commonly spoken language in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand, and is widely spoken in some areas of the Caribbean, Africa, and South Asia.

It is the third most common native language in the world, after Mandarin and Spanish.

It is the most widely learned second language and an official language of the United Nations, of the European Union, and of many other world and regional international organisations.

It is the most widely spoken Germanic language, accounting for at least 70% of speakers of this Indo-European branch.

Multilingualism is the use of two or more languages, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers.

It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population.

More than half of all Europeans claim to speak at least one other language in addition to their mother tongue.

Multilingualism is becoming a social phenomenon governed by the needs of globalization and cultural openness.

Owing to the ease of access to information facilitated by the Internet, individuals' exposure to multiple languages is becoming increasingly frequent, thereby promoting a need to acquire additional languages.

People who speak several languages are also called polyglots.