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
  
South Africa
  
National Language
France
  
South Africa
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Namibia, South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
  
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.
  
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Dutch Language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Dutch Language
  
Alphabets in
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
hallo
  
Thank You
Merci
  
Dankie
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
Hoe gaan dit
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
goeie nag
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
Goeienaand
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
Goeie middag
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
goeie more
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
asseblief
  
Sorry
désolé
  
jammer
  
Bye
au revoir
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Ek het jou lief
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
Verskoon my
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Kaapse Afrikaans
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
African French
  
Oranjeriverafrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Baster Afrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Namibia
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
19.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
7.10 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
10.30 million
  
22
Native Name
français
  
Afrikaans
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Cape Dutch
  
French Name
français
  
afrikaans
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Afrikaans
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Afrikaners
  
Origin
9th Century
  
17th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Standard Afrikaans
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
af
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
afr
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
afr
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
afr
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
afrs
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
afri1274
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
52-ACB-ba
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic