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
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
France
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Council for German Orthography
  
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.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-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
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
bitte
  
Sorry
désolé
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
au revoir
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
African French
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
229.00 million
  
8
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
français
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
français
  
allemand
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Germans
  
Origin
9th Century
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
deus
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic