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
  
East Asia, European Union, South America
  
National Language
France
  
East Asia, European Union
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Asia, Europe, South America
  
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
  
Akademio de Esperanto
  
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 most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
- Esperanto is an artificial international language.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
Halo
  
Thank You
Merci
  
Dankon
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
Kiel vi sanas?
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
Bonan nokton
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
Bonan vesperon
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
Bonan posttagmezon
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
Bonan matenon
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
Mi petas
  
Sorry
désolé
  
Mi bedaŭras!
  
Bye
au revoir
  
Ĝis poste
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Mi amas vin
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
Pardonu!
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Not present
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
African French
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Not present
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Not present
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Total No. Of Dialects
0
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
2.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
0.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
français
  
Esperanto
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
  
French Name
français
  
espéranto
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Esperanto
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
[espeˈranto]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Origin
9th Century
  
1887
  
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
  
Proto-Esperanto
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Esperanto
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Signuno
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
eo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
epo
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
epo
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
epo
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
espe1235
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
51-AAB-da
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Constructed
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative