I understand the article saying how widespread French is, but I wonder why they don't include how that came to be. French colonialism played a big part in the "galaxy of French speakers". Haiti, for example, has a large part of French speakers that had to fight for their independence. The galaxy of French speakers came about because of greed, and I believe it's important to highlight that.

"Galaxie francophone", or Galaxy of French Speakers, is trying to convey that French is an extremely large, universal language. It's also important to remember how this came to be, many due to French colonialism.

I believe this graph is expressing the growth (or stagnation) of different languages throughout history with official counts along with estimates on the continued growth with dates going as far as 2040.

1. French is spoken in many different social contexts throughout 112 countries.

1. French is spoken on 5 continents.

I believe that with the presence of graphs along with noticeable percentages and data points, this will be an informative article about the population of French speakers throughout the world.

Cognate, "Location quotients (?) of French in 2022"

Cognate, "galaxy of French Speakers"

Cognate, " Contexts, determines the elaboration of profiles of French speakers"

Cognate, "a percentage of the population"

Cognate, "evolution of the population of five different langues spoken with official population counts (i think)"

112 different territories (or countries), 321 million speakers

Cognate, "french is present on five different contients.