1 Countries
1.1 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
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Africa, Canada
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
1.8 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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
1.9 Similar To
Italian Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
bonsoir
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Africa
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA80,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0060,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
163.00 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
76.00 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
87.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard French
Standard Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating