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
  
Czech Republic, European Union
  
National Language
France
  
Czech Republic
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Austria, Croatia, Germany, Slovakia
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Institute of the Czech 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 Czech language was known as Bohemian as early at 19th century.
- In czech language, there are many words that do not contain vowels.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Polish, Slovak and Sorbian
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Czech-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
ahoj
  
Thank You
Merci
  
děkuji
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
Jak se máš?
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
dobrou noc
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
dobrý večer
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
dobré odpoledne
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
dobré ráno
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
prosím
  
Sorry
désolé
  
litovat
  
Bye
au revoir
  
sbohem
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Miluji tě
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
promiňte
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Chod
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Chodsko, Bohemia
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
African French
  
Lach
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Czech Silesia, Hlucin, Northeast Moravia
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Moravian
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Czech Republic, Czech Silesia, Moravia, Slovakia
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
11.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
11.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
Not Available
  
Native Name
français
  
čeština / český jazyk
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Bohemian, Cestina
  
French Name
français
  
tchèque
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Tschechisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Czechs
  
Origin
9th Century
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Proto-Czech, Old Czech
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Standard Czech
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Czech Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
cs
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
ces
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
cze
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
ces
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
czec1258
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
53-AAA-da
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic