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
  
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City
  
National Language
France
  
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)
  
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 most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
- Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
French and Portuguese Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
ciao
  
Thank You
Merci
  
grazie
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
Come stai?
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
buonanotte
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
buonasera
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
buon pomeriggio
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
buongiorno
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
Per Favore
  
Sorry
désolé
  
scusate
  
Bye
au revoir
  
arrivederci
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Ti amo
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
Scusami
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Romanesco
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Lazio
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
3,000,000.00
  
21
Dialect 2
African French
  
Central Italian
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
5,000,000.00
  
14
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Tuscan
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
78.00 million
  
21
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
64.00 million
  
18
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
14.00 million
  
20
Native Name
français
  
Italiano
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Italiano
  
French Name
français
  
italien
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Italienisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
[itaˈljaːno]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Italians
  
Origin
9th Century
  
960 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Romance
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Italian
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
it
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
ita
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
ita
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
ita
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
itas
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
ital1282
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
51-AAA-q
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic