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
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
321
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46
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National Language
France
Norway
Second Language
Africa, Canada
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
Norwegian Language Council
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.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Italian Language
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
Latin
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Origin
9th Century
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Romance
Germanic
Branch
-
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Standard French
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
1318
1
120
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Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage