The charts below show the number of French adults whose parents spoke a French regional language to them when they were children and the number who speak a French regional language to their own children

.The bar graphs provide information on how many

children

were spoken to in a French regional language and

then

carried on

this

tradition when they in turn became parents. 600,000

children

were often spoken to in

Alsatian

and

Occitan

while

about

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half of

this

number habitually heard Breton. 100,000

adults

were frequently spoken to in Creole and slightly

less

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in Corsican.

Occitan

was occasionally spoken to over 1 million

adults

in their childhood,

while

only 400,000 were spoken to in Breton. The numbers that communicated occasionally using Creole and Corsican ranged between 100,000 and 120,000.

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those whose parents occasionally spoke

Alsatian

to them stood at 230,000. Keeping with the trend of passing on a French regional language to their

children

, 400,000

adults

spoke

Alsatian

to their

children

and 250,000 communicated in

Occitan

. The remaining three regional languages were not spoken as much. Less than 100,000

adults

used them to speak to their

children

.

Although

,

Alsatian

and

Occitan

were habitually used by French

adults

to speak to their

children

and

Occitan

was spoken occasionally to a greater extent than

Alsatian

, those who heard

Alsatian

in their childhood were more likely to speak it to their own

children

.