the charts illustrate the number of French adults, in thousands, whose parents spoke a regional languages to them during their childhood, either habitually or occasionally, and the number who speak the same language to their own children.
overall, Ocitan and Alsatian are the most widely spoken regional languages among the French adults. moreover, it is clear that, more people reported speaking these languages occasonally than habitually but for the Alsatian. Additonally, the numbers of adults passing these languages to their child is a bit lower than the number who had learned them from their parents.
Around 600 thousand adults said their parents spoke Alsatian and Occitan to them habitually. Howerver, while only about 250 thousand occasionally heard alsatian, the figure for Occitan was much higher, at nearly 1,1 million, make it is the highest on the chart. Breton ranked third, with approximately 300 thousand habitual speaker and 450 thousand speak occasionally. In contrast, Creole and corsian were such the most uncommon, each accounting for feewer than 100 thousand habitually speaker and only slightly more occational speakers.
As for language passing down to the younger generation, Alsatian remained the most common regional language spoken to children, with 400 thousand speakers.