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
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Total No. Of Countries
323
0
46
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National Language
France
Abkhazia
Second Language
Africa, Canada
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Europe
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
Not Available
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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
Similar To
Italian Language
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
Latin
Caucasian languages
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2662
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
62
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2060
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
6NA
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks27 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
bonjour
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
Merci
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
bonne Nuit
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
bonsoir
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
Bonjour
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Please
S'il vous plaît
Not Available
Sorry
désolé
Not Available
Bye
au revoir
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
Je t'aime
Not available
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
Not available
Dialects
Dialect 1
Quebec French
Bzyb
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
Abkhazia
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
African French
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
Africa
Caucasus
How Many People Speak
NANA
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Swiss French
Sadz
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
Turkey
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00NA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
253
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million0.13 million
0.13
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.12 %NA
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million0.13 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
87.00 millionNA
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
français
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Français
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
français
abkhaze
German Name
Französisch
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Not Available
Abkhaz people
History
Origin
9th Century
c. 1650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Northwest Caucasian
Subgroup
Romance
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard French
Abkhaz
Language Position
13NA
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
fr
ab
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fra
abk
ISO 639 2/B
fre
abk
ISO 639 3
fra
abk
ISO 639 6
fras
abks
Glottocode
stan1290
abkh1244
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative