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Countries
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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 0

Total No. Of Countries
32 3

National Language
France 0

Second Language
Africa, Canada 0

Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America 0

Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam 0

Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française 0

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.
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Similar To
Italian Language 0

Derived From
Latin 0

Alphabets
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Alphabets in
French-Alphabets.jpg#200 0

Alphabets
26 8

Phonology
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How Many Vowels
6 3

How Many Consonants
20 10

Scripts
Latin 0

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal 0

Hard to Learn
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Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks 6

Greetings
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Hello
bonjour 0

Thank You
Merci 0

How Are You?
Comment allez-vous? 0

Good Night
bonne Nuit 0

Good Evening
bonsoir 0

Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi 0

Good Morning
Bonjour 0

Please
S'il vous plaît 0

Sorry
désolé 0

Bye
au revoir 0

I Love You
Je t'aime 0

Excuse Me
Excuse Moi 0

Dialects
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Dialect 1
Quebec French 0

Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada 0

How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00 15

Dialect 2
African French 0

Where They Speak
Africa 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Dialect 3
Swiss French 0

Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland 0

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00 16

Total No. Of Dialects
25 21

How Many People Speak
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How Many People Speak?
163.00 million 11

Speaking Population
1.12 % 17

Native Speakers
76.00 million 13

Second Language Speakers
87.00 million 11

Native Name
français 0

Alternative Names
Français 0

French Name
français 0

German Name
Französisch 0

Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ] 0

Ethnicity
Not Available 0

History
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Origin
9th Century 0

Language Family
Indo-European Family 0

Subgroup
Romance 0

Branch
Not Available 0

Language Forms
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Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French 0

Standard Forms
Standard French 0

Language Position
13 12

Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France) 0

Scope
Individual 0

Code
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ISO 639 1
fr 0

ISO 639 2
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ISO 639 2/T
fra 0

ISO 639 2/B
fre 0

ISO 639 3
fra 0

ISO 639 6
fras 0

Glottocode
stan1290 0

Linguasphere
51-AAA-i 0

Types of Language
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Language Type
Living 0

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object 0

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic 0

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Know Alphabets in French

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About French Language, where you will learn the number of letter in French Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in French. French phonology gives French vowels and French consonants. There are 6 vowels and 20 consonants in French language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if French is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about French language is given in detail in this section.

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All French countries

Want to explore all French countries? About French language serves you with all French Speaking Countries. Countries that use French as official language are called as French countries.

  • Countries that use French as their National Language are: France.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use French as second language are: Africa, Canada.

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Learn French greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn French Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about French language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in French language.Learn French greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: bonjour
  • Thank you: Merci
  • Good Morning: Bonjour
  • Good Evening: bonsoir
  • Good Afternoon: bon Après-Midi

All French Language Codes

Get to know all French language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All French Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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