Countries
Philippines
  
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
  
National Language
Philippines
  
France
  
Second Language
Philippines
  
Africa, Canada
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Regulated By
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
  
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Interesting Facts
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
  
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
Similar To
Hiligaynon Language
  
Italian Language
  
Derived From
Island of Cebu
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
Cebuano-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hoy
  
bonjour
  
Thank You
Salamat
  
Merci
  
How Are You?
Kumusta man ka?
  
Comment allez-vous?
  
Good Night
Maayong Gabii
  
bonne Nuit
  
Good Evening
Maayong Gabii
  
bonsoir
  
Good Afternoon
Maayong Hapon
  
bon Après-Midi
  
Good Morning
Maayong Buntag
  
Bonjour
  
Please
Palihug
  
S'il vous plaît
  
Sorry
Ikasubo ko
  
désolé
  
Bye
Babay
  
au revoir
  
I Love You
Gihigugma ko ikaw
  
Je t'aime
  
Excuse Me
Ekskyus mi
  
Excuse Moi
  
Dialect 1
Boholano
  
Quebec French
  
Where They Speak
Bohol
  
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
Southern Kana
  
African French
  
Where They Speak
southern Leyte
  
Africa
  
Dialect 3
North Kana
  
Swiss French
  
Where They Speak
northern part of Leyte
  
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
Not Available
  
163.00 million
  
11
Native Speakers
21.00 million
  
36
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
14.50 million
  
19
87.00 million
  
11
Native Name
Visayan
  
français
  
Alternative Names
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
  
Français
  
French Name
cebuano
  
français
  
German Name
Cebuano
  
Französisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Cebuano people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
16th century
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Romance
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Standard Forms
Standard Cebuano
  
Standard French
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data Available
  
fr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ceb
  
fra
  
ISO 639 2/B
ceb
  
fre
  
ISO 639 3
ceb
  
fra
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
fras
  
Glottocode
cebu1242
  
stan1290
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
51-AAA-i
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic