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
  
Estonia, European Union
  
National Language
France
  
Estonia, Gambia
  
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
  
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Institute of the Estonian 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.
  
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Finnish
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
Tere
  
Thank You
Merci
  
aitäh
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
kuidas sul läheb
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
Head ööd
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
Tere õhtust
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
Tere päevast
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
Tere hommikust
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
Palun
  
Sorry
désolé
  
Vabandust
  
Bye
au revoir
  
Head aega
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
ma armastan sind
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
Vabandage
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Keskmurre
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
African French
  
Tartu
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Idamurre
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
1.10 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
0.95 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
Not Available
  
Native Name
français
  
eesti keel
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Eesti keel
  
French Name
français
  
estonien
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Estnisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Estonians
  
Origin
9th Century
  
13th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Estonian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Estonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
et
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
est
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
est
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
est
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
esto1258
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative