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
  
Japan
  
National Language
France
  
Japan
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Asia, Pacific
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Palau
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
  
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.
  
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Korean Language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Kana
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
  
Thank You
Merci
  
ありがとう (Arigatō)
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
おはよう (Ohayō)
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
  
Sorry
désolé
  
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
  
Bye
au revoir
  
さようなら (Sayōnara)
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
すみません (Sumimasen)
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Sanuki
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Kagawa
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
1,000,000.00
  
28
Dialect 2
African French
  
Hakata
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Fukuoka
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Kansai
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
kansai
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
128.00 million
  
14
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
128.00 million
  
9
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
Not Available
  
Native Name
français
  
日本語
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Not Available
  
French Name
français
  
japonais
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Japanisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Japanese (Yamato)
  
Origin
9th Century
  
1185
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Japonic Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Japanese
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Signed Japanese
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
ja
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
jpn
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
jpn
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
jpn
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
nucl1643
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
45-CAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic