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
  
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
  
National Language
France
  
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
  
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.
  
- Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
- There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Norwegian and Swedish
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Old Norse Language
  
Alphabets in
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Danish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
Hallo
  
Thank You
Merci
  
Mange tak
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
Hvordan har du det?
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
God nat
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
God aften
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
God eftermiddag
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
God morgen
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
Please
  
Sorry
désolé
  
Undskyld!
  
Bye
au revoir
  
Farvel
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Jeg elsker dig
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
Undskyld mig
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Scanian
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
African French
  
Jutlandic
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Denmark
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Bornholmsk
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Island of Bornholm
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
5.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
5.50 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
Not Available
  
Native Name
français
  
dansk
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Dansk, Rigsdansk
  
French Name
français
  
danois
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Dänisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Danish people or Danes
  
Origin
9th Century
  
c. 1100 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Rigsdansk
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Signed Danish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
da
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
dan
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
dan
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
dan
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
dani1284
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional