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
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
322
0
46
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National Language
France
Nepal
Second Language
Africa, Canada
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Italian Language
Hindi
Derived From
Latin
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2648
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2036
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
bonjour
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Merci
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
bonne Nuit
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
bonsoir
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Bonjour
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
S'il vous plaît
कृपया
Sorry
désolé
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
au revoir
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Je t'aime
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Quebec French
Doteli
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
Nepal
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
African French
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Africa
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
274,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Swiss French
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2512
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.12 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
français
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Français
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
français
népalais
German Name
Französisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
French people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
9th Century
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Romance
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Standard French
Nepali
Language Position
1359
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
fr
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fra
nep
ISO 639 2/B
fre
nep
ISO 639 3
fra
npi
ISO 639 6
fras
nep
Glottocode
stan1290
nepa1254
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative