Francosphere

English Etymology From en Franco- -sphere, modelled after en Anglosphere. Pronunciation frăng′kə-sfîr′ en /ˈfɹæŋ.kəˌsfɪə/ RP,AuE en /ˈfɹæŋ.kəˌsfɪɹ/ GenAm,CanE en /ˈfɹɛŋ.kəˌsfiːə̯/ NZE en /ˈfɹaŋ.kəˌsfiɹ/ ScE en /ˈfɾaŋ.kəˌsfiːr/ InE en ɪə(ɹ) 3 en Fran co sphere Proper noun the Francosphere The totality of Francophone countries, the geographical or cultural realm of native French-speakers. en Francophonie en Anglosphere anglosphere en 2009 Tim Judah Yugosphere LSE Press https://archive.org/details/Yugosphere/page/n29/mode/2up?q=Francosphere 22-23 Unlike the Yugosphere however what is clear here is that what is outside France is relatively small, ie., France dominates. Still, turn on the European channel of Frances international station and the logo defines the European Francosphere. It says: TV5Monde Direct: France, Belgique, Suisse. en 2011 Philippe Lane; Michael Worton French studies in and for the twenty-first century IV https://archive.org/details/frenchstudiesinf0000unse/page/46/mode/2up?q=francosph%C3%A8re 47 Traditional cross-Channel dialogues continue to be valuable, with French Studies scholars in the UK and Ireland maintaining their debates with colleagues in France, Belgium, Switzerland and elsewhere in the Francosphere. en 2021 Greg Kerr Exile, Non-Belonging and Statelessness in Grangaud, Jabès, Lubin and Luca - No man’s language UCL Press https://archive.org/details/oapen-20.500.12657-51798/page/n205/mode/2up?q=francosphere Blurb Ranging across borders within and beyond the Francosphere — from Algeria to Armenia, to Egypt, to Romania — this book shows how a poetic practice inflected by exile, statelessness or non-belonging has the potential to disrupt long-held assumptions of the relation between subjects, the language they use and the place from which they speak.