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While the large Maghreb and SSA populations in France are well-known globally, less well-known is the sheer number of people there from the Latin world. It is the biggest Portuguese-speaking country outside the Portuguese-speaking world, the second-biggest Spanish-speaking country outside Spain and Latin America apart from the USA, and has the biggest Italian population in Europe outside Italy itself. According to the report, France has 829,000 speakers of Italian, 959,000 speakers of Portuguese, 453,000 speakers of Spanish as a first language and 5,720,000 speakers of Spanish as a second language: https://www.ethnologue.com/country/FR/languages
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