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
  
Philippines
  
National Language
France
  
Philippines
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Philippines
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
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
  
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
  
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.
  
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Hiligaynon Language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Island of Cebu
  
Alphabets in
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Cebuano-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
Hoy
  
Thank You
Merci
  
Salamat
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
Kumusta man ka?
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
Maayong Gabii
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
Maayong Gabii
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
Maayong Hapon
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
Maayong Buntag
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
Palihug
  
Sorry
désolé
  
Ikasubo ko
  
Bye
au revoir
  
Babay
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Gihigugma ko ikaw
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
Ekskyus mi
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Boholano
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Bohol
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
African French
  
Southern Kana
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
southern Leyte
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
North Kana
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
northern part of Leyte
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
21.00 million
  
36
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
14.50 million
  
19
Native Name
français
  
Visayan
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
  
French Name
français
  
cebuano
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Cebuano
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Cebuano people
  
Origin
9th Century
  
16th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian 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 Cebuano
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
No data Available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
ceb
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
ceb
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
ceb
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
cebu1242
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Verb-Subject-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available