Does the French Academy prescribe the language only for France, or is it meant to prescribe the French language wherever it's spoken?
For example, in French Canada and other regions where French is spoken.
For example, in French Canada and other regions where French is spoken.
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Their job is to collect data about the evolution of the language and to propose a normalisation. Although it was originally created in France, they are not all French, for example Assia Djebar was Algerian, Dany Laferrière is Haïtian and Québécquois, Amin Maalouf is Franco-Lebanese, Michael Edwards is Franco-British, etc.
The organisation that is supposed to prescribe about the French language in France only is the Conseil supérieur de la langue française. There is a different one is each Francophone country. And they generally work together so a lot of what they prescribe is the same in the other countries.