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
  
Hong Kong, Macau
  
National Language
France
  
China, Guangdong
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Hawaii
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
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.
  
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Chinese Language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
您好
  
Thank You
Merci
  
谢谢
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
你好吗?
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
晚安
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
晚上好
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
下午好
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
早上好
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
请
  
Sorry
désolé
  
遗憾
  
Bye
au revoir
  
再见
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
我爱你
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
原谅我
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Guangzhou
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
outside mainland China
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
African French
  
Xiguan
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Hong Kong
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Hong Kong
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Hong Kong
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
60.00 million
  
27
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
52.00 million
  
21
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
Not Available
  
Native Name
français
  
Kwang Tung Wa
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
French Name
français
  
Not Available
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Not Available
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Origin
9th Century
  
17th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
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
  
Standard Cantonese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
cant1236
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available