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
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
321
0
46
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National Language
France
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Africa, Canada
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Asia
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
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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 Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
Similar To
Italian Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Latin
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2654
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
618
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2036
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
bonjour
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Merci
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
bonne Nuit
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
bonsoir
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Bonjour
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
S'il vous plaît
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
désolé
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
au revoir
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Je t'aime
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Quebec French
Vedda
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
African French
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Africa
-
How Many People Speak
274,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Swiss French
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
-
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
251
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.12 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
français
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Français
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
français
singhalais
German Name
Französisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
French people
Sinhalese people
History
Origin
9th Century
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Romance
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Standard French
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
1370
1
120
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Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
fr
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fra
sin
ISO 639 2/B
fre
sin
ISO 639 3
fra
sin
ISO 639 6
fras
sin
Glottocode
stan1290
sinh1246
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional