1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
France
1.4 Second Language
Africa, Canada
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
1.7 Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
1.8 Interesting Facts
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
1.9 Similar To
Italian Language
1.10 Derived From
Latin
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
bonjour
3.2 Thank You
Merci
3.3 How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
3.4 Good Night
bonne Nuit
3.5 Good Evening
bonsoir
3.6 Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
3.7 Good Morning
Bonjour
3.8 Please
S'il vous plaît
3.9 Sorry
désolé
3.10 Bye
au revoir
3.11 I Love You
Je t'aime
3.12 Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Quebec French
4.1.1 Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
Rank: 15 (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
African French
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Swiss French
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
Rank: 16 (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
2 How Many People Speak
2.1 How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
Rank: 11 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
3.3 Speaking Population
1.12 %
Rank: 17 (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
3.5 Native Speakers
76.00 million
Rank: 13 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
3.5.2 Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
Rank: 11 (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
3.8.2 Native Name
français
3.8.3 Alternative Names
Français
3.8.4 French Name
français
3.8.5 German Name
Französisch
3.9 Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
3.10 Ethnicity
Not Available
4 History
4.1 Origin
9th Century
4.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
4.2.1 Subgroup
Romance
4.2.2 Branch
Not Available
4.3 Language Forms
4.3.1 Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
4.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard French
4.3.3 Language Position
4.3.5 Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
4.4 Scope
Individual
5 Code
5.1 ISO 639 1
fr
5.2 ISO 639 2
5.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
fra
5.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
fre
5.3 ISO 639 3
fra
5.4 ISO 639 6
fras
5.5 Glottocode
stan1290
5.6 Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
5.7 Types of Language
5.7.1 Language Type
Living
5.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
5.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic