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
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Total No. Of Countries
327
0
46
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National Language
France
Germany
Second Language
Africa, Canada
North Dakota, United States of America
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Europe
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Similar To
Italian Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
Latin
Albanian Languages
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2626
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
610
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
209
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
bonjour
hallo
Thank You
Merci
Danke
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
Wie geht es dir?
Good Night
bonne Nuit
gute Nacht
Good Evening
bonsoir
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
guten Tag
Good Morning
Bonjour
guten Morgen
Please
S'il vous plaît
bitte
Sorry
désolé
Verzeihung
Bye
au revoir
Tschüs
I Love You
Je t'aime
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
Entschuldigung
Dialects
Dialect 1
Quebec French
Swiss German
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
Switzerland
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.004,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
African French
Swabian German
Where They Speak
Africa
Germany
How Many People Speak
274,000,000.00820,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Swiss French
Texas German
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
Texas
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.006,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2528
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million229.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.12 %1.39 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million101.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million128.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
français
Deutsch
Alternative Names
Français
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
français
allemand
German Name
Französisch
Deutsch
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Ethnicity
French people
Germans
History
Origin
9th Century
6th Century AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Romance
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard French
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Language Position
139
1
120
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Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Signed German
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
fr
de
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fra
deu
ISO 639 2/B
fre
ger
ISO 639 3
fra
deu
ISO 639 6
fras
deus
Glottocode
stan1290
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic