The Basque language is completely unrelated to the French language and to any other language in the world it is spoken in an area that straddles the border between the southwest of France and the north of Spain. Note that contrary to some misconceptions sometimes found in the Anglophone media, the French government neither regulates the language used by private parties in commercial settings, nor makes it compulsory that France-based Some regional languages are Roman, like French, such as Occitan. The Toubon law, from the name of the conservative culture minister who promoted it, makes it mandatory to use French in advertisements directed to the general public. For instance, they have established a system of subsidies and preferential loans for supporting French cinema. Some action has been taken by the government to promote French culture and the French language. The Académie Française sets an official standard of linguistic purism however, this standard, which is not mandatory, is occasionally ignored by the government itself: for instance, the left-wing government of Lionel Jospin pushed for the feminisation of the names of some functions ( madame la ministre) while the Académie pushed for some more traditional madame le ministre.
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