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
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
France
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Africa, Asia
  
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
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
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.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
Merci
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
désolé
  
آسف
  
Bye
au revoir
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
African French
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
452.00 million
  
4
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
français
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
français
  
arabe
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Arabs
  
Origin
9th Century
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic