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
  
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
  
National Language
France
  
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Roman Empire
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
  
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.
  
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Armenian
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Greek-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
γεια σας (geia sas)
  
Thank You
Merci
  
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
  
Sorry
désolé
  
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
  
Bye
au revoir
  
αντίο (antío)
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Cappadocian Greek
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Greece
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
African French
  
Griko
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Italy
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Mariupol
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
13.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
13.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
Not Available
  
Native Name
français
  
ελληνικά
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
  
French Name
français
  
grec moderne (après 1453)
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Neugriechisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
[eliniˈka]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Greeks or Hellenes
  
Origin
9th Century
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Hellenic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Modern Greek
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Greek Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
el
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
ell
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
gre
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
ell
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
ells
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
gree1276
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
56-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic