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
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
321
0
46
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National Language
France
Philippines
Second Language
Africa, Canada
Philippines
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
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.
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
Similar To
Italian Language
Hiligaynon Language
Derived From
Latin
Island of Cebu
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2621
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2016
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks3 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
bonjour
Hoy
Thank You
Merci
Salamat
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
Kumusta man ka?
Good Night
bonne Nuit
Maayong Gabii
Good Evening
bonsoir
Maayong Gabii
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
Maayong Hapon
Good Morning
Bonjour
Maayong Buntag
Please
S'il vous plaît
Palihug
Sorry
désolé
Ikasubo ko
Bye
au revoir
Babay
I Love You
Je t'aime
Gihigugma ko ikaw
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
Ekskyus mi
Dialects
Dialect 1
Quebec French
Boholano
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
Bohol
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.0021,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
African French
Southern Kana
Where They Speak
Africa
southern Leyte
How Many People Speak
274,000,000.0021,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Swiss French
North Kana
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
northern part of Leyte
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
254
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.12 %0.32 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million21.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million14.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
français
Visayan
Alternative Names
Français
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
French Name
français
cebuano
German Name
Französisch
Cebuano
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
[sɛbuˈɑno]
Ethnicity
French people
Cebuano people
History
Origin
9th Century
16th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Romance
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard French
Standard Cebuano
Language Position
1362
1
120
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Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Cebuano Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
fr
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fra
ceb
ISO 639 2/B
fre
ceb
ISO 639 3
fra
ceb
ISO 639 6
fras
ceb
Glottocode
stan1290
cebu1242
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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