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
Thailand
Total No. Of Countries
321
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
France
Thailand
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
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
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.
- Thai is tonal language and also it is very repetitive and exaggerative language.
- You should learn thai language with native speakers and not with books or recorders, since speaking and writing in thai are not the same.
Similar To
Italian Language
Lao Language
Derived From
Latin
Khmer Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2644
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
632
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2044
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Thai
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
bonjour
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Thank You
Merci
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
Good Night
bonne Nuit
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
Good Evening
bonsoir
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
Good Morning
Bonjour
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
Please
S'il vous plaît
โปรด (Pord)
Sorry
désolé
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Bye
au revoir
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
I Love You
Je t'aime
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Quebec French
Isan
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
Isan
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
African French
Northern Thai
Where They Speak
Africa
Northern Thailand
How Many People Speak
NA6,000,000.00
700
80000000
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Dialect 3
Swiss French
Southern Thai
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.004,500,000.00
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
259
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.12 %0.85 %
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million20.00 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million40.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
français
ภาษาไทย
Alternative Names
Français
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
French Name
français
thaï
German Name
Französisch
Thailändisch
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
Ethnicity
Not Available
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
History
Origin
9th Century
1283 CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Subgroup
Romance
Tai
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
Old Thai
Standard Forms
Standard French
Thai
Language Position
1347
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Thai Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
fr
th
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fra
tha
ISO 639 2/B
fre
tha
ISO 639 3
fra
tha
ISO 639 6
fras
Not Available
Glottocode
stan1290
thai1261
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
47-AAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating