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Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries
32 3

National Language
France

Second Language
Africa, Canada

Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America

Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam

Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française

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.

Similar To
Italian Language

Derived From
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Alphabets
26 8

Phonology

How Many Vowels
6 3

How Many Consonants
20 10

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks 6

Greetings

Hello
bonjour

Thank You
Merci

How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?

Good Night
bonne Nuit

Good Evening
bonsoir

Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi

Good Morning
Bonjour

Please
S'il vous plaît

Sorry
désolé

Bye
au revoir

I Love You
Je t'aime

Excuse Me
Excuse Moi

Dialects

Dialect 1
Quebec French

Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada

How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00 43

Dialect 2
African French

Where They Speak
Africa

How Many People Speak
274,000,000.00 1

Dialect 3
Swiss French

Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00 50

Total No. Of Dialects
25 21

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
163.00 million 11

Speaking Population
1.12 % 18

Native Speakers
76.00 million 13

Second Language Speakers
87.00 million 11

Native Name
français

Alternative Names
Français

French Name
français

German Name
Französisch

Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]

Ethnicity
French people

History

Origin
9th Century

Language Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup
Romance

Branch
-

Language Forms

Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French

Standard Forms
Standard French

Language Position
13 12

Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
fr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
fra

ISO 639 2/B
fre

ISO 639 3
fra

ISO 639 6
fras

Glottocode
stan1290

Linguasphere
51-AAA-i

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic

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Know Alphabets in French

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About French Language, where you will learn the number of letter in French Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in French. French phonology gives French vowels and French consonants. There are 6 vowels and 20 consonants in French language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if French is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about French language is given in detail in this section.

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All French countries

Want to explore all French countries? About French language serves you with all French Speaking Countries. Countries that use French as official language are called as French countries.

  • Countries that use French as their National Language are: France.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use French as second language are: Africa, Canada.

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Learn French greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn French Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about French language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in French language.Learn French greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: bonjour
  • Thank you: Merci
  • Good Morning: Bonjour
  • Good Evening: bonsoir
  • Good Afternoon: bon Après-Midi

All French Language Codes

Get to know all French language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All French Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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