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
  
Bulgaria, European Union
  
National Language
France
  
Bulgaria
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Africa, Europe
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
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.
  
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Macedonian language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
Thank You
Merci
  
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
Моля (Molja)
  
Sorry
désolé
  
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
Bye
au revoir
  
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
African French
  
Panagyurishte
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Bulgaria
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Pirdop
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
7.80 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
7.80 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
Not Available
  
Native Name
français
  
български (bãlgarski)
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Balgarski
  
French Name
français
  
bulgare
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Bulgarisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Origin
9th Century
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Standard Bulgarian
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
bg
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
bul
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
bul
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
bul
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
buls
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
bulg1262
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
53-AAA-hb
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available