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
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
322
0
46
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National Language
France
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Africa, Canada
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Middle East
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
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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 vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Italian Language
Farsi Language
Derived From
Latin
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Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2633
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2029
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
bonjour
Silaw
Thank You
Merci
Sipas
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
bonne Nuit
Şev xweş
Good Evening
bonsoir
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
Bonjour
Bayanit bash
Please
S'il vous plaît
Bê zehmet
Sorry
désolé
Bibûre
Bye
au revoir
Be xêr çî
I Love You
Je t'aime
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
Bê zehmet
Dialects
Dialect 1
Quebec French
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
African French
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Africa
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
274,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Swiss French
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
253
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.12 %0.31 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
76.00 million21.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
87.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
français
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Français
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
français
kurde
German Name
Französisch
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
French people
Kurds
History
Origin
9th Century
16th century CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Romance
Indo-Iranian
Branch
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Standard French
Kurdish
Language Position
1314
1
120
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Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
Code
ISO 639 1
fr
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fra
kur
ISO 639 2/B
fre
kur
ISO 639 3
fra
kur
ISO 639 6
fras
kur
Glottocode
stan1290
kurd1259
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
58-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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