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
  
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
National Language
France
  
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Africa, Europe
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)
  
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.
  
- Hungarian language has only preserved most of its ancient elements.
- 'Magyar' is the Hungarian name for the language, the 'Magyar' is also used as an English word to refer to Hungarian people.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Mansi and Khanty Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
East and South Slavic Languages
  
Alphabets in
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Hungarian-alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
szia
  
Thank You
Merci
  
köszönöm
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
Hogy vagy?
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
Jó Éjszakát
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
jó Estét
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
Jó Napot Kívánok
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
jó Reggelt
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
Kérlek
  
Sorry
désolé
  
bocsi
  
Bye
au revoir
  
viszlát
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Szeretlek
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
elnézést
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Csángó
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Bacău County, Rumania
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
African French
  
Oberwart
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Austria
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Székely
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Székely Land
  
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
0.07 million
  
38
Native Name
français
  
magyar / magyar nyelv
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Magyar
  
French Name
français
  
hongrois
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Ungarisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
[ˈmɒɟɒr]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Hungarians
  
Origin
9th Century
  
1192 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Ugric
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Old Hungarian
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Modern Hungarian
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
hu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
hun
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
hun
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
hun
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
hung1274
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
ohu
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic