Editing French language (section)

=== Oceania ===
[[File:CFP 500 recto.jpg|thumb|upright|A 500-[[CFP franc]] (€4.20; US$5.00) banknote, used in [[French Polynesia]], [[New Caledonia]] and [[Wallis and Futuna]]]]
French is an official language of the [[Pacific Island]] nation of [[Vanuatu]], where 31% of the population was estimated to speak it in 2023.<ref name="2023_speakers" /> It is the sole official language in the French special collectivity of [[New Caledonia]] and the overseas collectivities of [[Wallis and Futuna]] and [[French Polynesia]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Vernaudon |first=Jacques |date=2020-07-01 |title=Les langues polynésiennes et kanak, des « langues de France » en contexte de décolonisation |url=https://journals.openedition.org/glottopol/488 |journal=Glottopol. Revue de sociolinguistique en ligne |language=fr |issue=34 |doi=10.4000/glottopol.488 |issn=1769-7425}}</ref>

In New Caledonia, 97% of the population can speak, read and write French<ref>{{Cite web |title=P9-1 – Population de 14 ans et plus selon la connaissance du français, le sexe, par commune, "zone" et par province de résidence |url=http://www.insee.fr/fr/ppp/ir/rpnc04/dd/excel/rpnc04_P9-1.xls |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230918104854/https://www.insee.fr/fr/accueil |archive-date=18 September 2023 |access-date=3 October 2009 |publisher=Government of France |language=fr |format=XLS}}</ref> while in French Polynesia this figure is 95%,<ref name="PF_2017">{{Cite web |last=Institut Statistique de Polynésie Française (ISPF) |title=Recensement 2017 – Données détaillées Langues |url=http://ispf.pf/bases/Recensements/2017/Donnees_detaillees/Langues.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190407144500/http://ispf.pf/bases/Recensements/2017/Donnees_detaillees/Langues.aspx |archive-date=7 April 2019 |access-date=2019-04-07}}</ref> and in Wallis and Futuna, it is 84%.<ref name="WF_2018">{{Cite web |last=STSEE |title=Les premiers résultats du recensement de la population 2018 – Principaux_tableaux_population_2018 |url=http://www.statistique.wf/wp-content/plugins/download-attachments/includes/download.php?id=921 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190608211620/http://www.statistique.wf/wp-content/plugins/download-attachments/includes/download.php?id=921 |archive-date=8 June 2019 |access-date=2019-04-07 |language=fr |format=ODS}}</ref> In French Polynesia and to a lesser extent Wallis and Futuna, where oral and written knowledge of the French language has become almost universal, French increasingly tends to displace the native [[Polynesian languages]] as the language most spoken at home. In French Polynesia, the percentage of the population who reported that French was the language they use the most at home rose from 67% at the 2007 census to 74% at the 2017 census.<ref name="PF_2007">{{Cite web |last=Institut Statistique de Polynésie Française (ISPF) |title=Recensement 2007 – Données détaillées Langues |url=http://ispf.pf/bases/Recensements/2007/Details/Langues.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218054513/http://ispf.pf/bases/Recensements/2007/Details/Langues.aspx |archive-date=18 February 2020 |access-date=2019-04-07}}</ref><ref name="PF_2017" /> In Wallis and Futuna, the percentage of the population who reported that French was the language they use the most at home rose from 10% at the 2008 census to 13% at the 2018 census.<ref name="WF_2018" /><ref name="WF_2008">{{Cite web |title=Tableau Pop_06_1: Population selon le sexe, la connaissance du français et l'âge décennal |url=http://www.insee.fr/fr/ppp/bases-de-donnees/irweb/rpwf08/dd/excel/rpwf08_Pop_06.xls |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604180112/http://www.insee.fr/fr/ppp/bases-de-donnees/irweb/rpwf08/dd/excel/rpwf08_Pop_06.xls |archive-date=2011-06-04 |access-date=3 October 2009 |publisher=Government of France |language=fr |format=XLS}}</ref>