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
  
Myanmar
  
National Language
France
  
Myanmar
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Bangladesh, Burma
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Mon
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Myanmar Language Commission
  
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 naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Thai Language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Pali Language
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Tangut
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
  
Thank You
Merci
  
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
  
Sorry
désolé
  
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
  
Bye
au revoir
  
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Arakanese
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
2,000,000.00
  
24
Dialect 2
African French
  
Tavoyan
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Intha
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Burma
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
43.00 million
  
30
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
33.00 million
  
28
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
10.00 million
  
23
Native Name
français
  
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
  
French Name
français
  
birman
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Birmanisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Bamar people
  
Origin
9th Century
  
1113 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Modern Burmese
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Burmese sign language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
my
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
mya
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
bur
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
mya
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
sout3159
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating