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
Indonesia
National Language
France
Indonesia
Second Language
Africa, Canada
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
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.
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Italian Language
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
Latin
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
Merci
matur nuwun
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
piye kabare?
Good Night
bonne Nuit
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
bonsoir
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
Bonjour
Sugeng énjing
Please
S'il vous plaît
Not Available
Sorry
désolé
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
au revoir
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
Je t'aime
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Quebec French
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
African French
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Africa
Indonesia
Dialect 3
Swiss French
Arekan
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
français
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Français
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
français
javanais
German Name
Französisch
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Not Available
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
9th Century
450 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Romance
Indonesian
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard French
Javanese
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
fras
Not Available
Glottocode
stan1290
java1253
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative
French and Javanese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where French and Javanese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in French and Javanese language. French word for "Hello" is bonjour or Javanese word for "Thank You" is matur nuwun. Find more of such common French Greetings and Javanese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
French vs Javanese Difficulty
The French vs Javanese difficulty level basically depends on the number of French Alphabets and Javanese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare French and Javanese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in French and Javanese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn French is 24 weeks while to learn Javanese time required is 36 weeks.