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
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
322
0
46
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National Language
France
Malta
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
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
National Council for the Maltese Language
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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Italian Language
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
Latin
Roman Languages
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2630
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2024
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
bonjour
Ħello
Thank You
Merci
Grazzi
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
Kif int?
Good Night
bonne Nuit
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
bonsoir
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
Bonjour
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
S'il vous plaît
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
désolé
Skużani!
Bye
au revoir
Ċaw
I Love You
Je t'aime
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
Skużi!
Dialects
Dialect 1
Quebec French
Qormi
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
Malta
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
African French
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Africa
Malta
How Many People Speak
NANA
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Swiss French
Not Present
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
Not Available
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00NA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
252
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million0.52 million
0.13
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.12 %NA
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million0.52 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
87.00 millionNA
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
français
Malti
Alternative Names
Français
Malti
French Name
français
maltais
German Name
Französisch
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Not Available
Maltese
History
Origin
9th Century
c. 1470
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Romance
Semitic
Branch
Not Available
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard French
Maltese
Language Position
13NA
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
fr
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fra
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
fre
mlt
ISO 639 3
fra
mlt
ISO 639 6
fras
Not Available
Glottocode
stan1290
malt1254
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic