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
Myanmar
Total No. Of Countries
321
0
46
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National Language
France
Myanmar
Second Language
Africa, Canada
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
Mon
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
Myanmar Language Commission
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.
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
Similar To
Italian Language
Thai Language
Derived From
Latin
Pali Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2633
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2033
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tangut
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
bonjour
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
Merci
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
bonne Nuit
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
bonsoir
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
Bonjour
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
S'il vous plaît
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
désolé
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
au revoir
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
Je t'aime
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Quebec French
Arakanese
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
African French
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
Africa
Myanmar
How Many People Speak
274,000,000.00440,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Swiss French
Intha
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
Burma
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0090,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
255
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million43.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.12 %0.50 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
français
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Français
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
français
birman
German Name
Französisch
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
[bəmɛ̀]
Ethnicity
French people
Bamar people
Origin
9th Century
1113 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Romance
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Standard French
Modern Burmese
Language Position
1343
1
120
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Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fr
my
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fra
mya
ISO 639 2/B
fre
bur
ISO 639 3
fra
mya
ISO 639 6
fras
mya
Glottocode
stan1290
sout3159
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating