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
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
France
Russia
Second Language
Africa, Canada
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Italian Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Latin
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
bonjour
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Merci
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
bonne Nuit
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
bonsoir
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Bonjour
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
S'il vous plaît
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
désolé
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
au revoir
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Je t'aime
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Quebec French
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Dialect 2
African French
Olonets
Where They Speak
Africa
Olonets
Dialect 3
Swiss French
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
Novgorod
Native Name
français
Русский
Alternative Names
Français
Russki
French Name
français
russe
German Name
Französisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
French people
Russians
Origin
9th Century
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Standard French
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
stan1290
russ1263
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic