French language in Algeria

French is commonly used in Algeria. Despite intermittent attempts to eradicate French from public life, by the 2000s the proportion of French speakers in Algeria was much higher than on the eve of independence in 1962; In 2008, 11.2 million Algerians (33%) could read and write in French. Algeria is the second largest Francophone country in the world in terms of speakers.

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