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
  
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
National Language
France
  
Abkhazia
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Europe
  
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
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Caucasian languages
  
Alphabets in
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
bonjour
  
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  
Thank You
Merci
  
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
désolé
  
Not Available
  
Bye
au revoir
  
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Not available
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
Not available
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Bzyb
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Abkhazia
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
African French
  
Abzhywa
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Caucasus
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Sadz
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
0.13 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
0.13 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
Not Available
  
Native Name
français
  
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
French Name
français
  
abkhaze
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Abchasisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Abkhaz people
  
Origin
9th Century
  
c. 1650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Northwest Caucasian
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Abkhaz
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
ab
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
abk
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
abk
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
abk
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
abks
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
abkh1244
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative