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
  
Indonesia
  
National Language
France
  
Indonesia
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
Halo
  
Thank You
Merci
  
matur nuwun
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
piye kabare?
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
wengi sing apik
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
Sugeng sọnten
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
Sugeng siang
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
Sugeng énjing
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
désolé
  
Nyuwun pangapunten
  
Bye
au revoir
  
Kepanggih malih benjang
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Kula tresna panjengan
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
Nuwun séwu
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Pekalongan
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
African French
  
Cirebon
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Indonesia
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Arekan
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
82.00 million
  
19
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
Not Available
  
Native Name
français
  
basa Jawa
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Djawa, Jawa
  
French Name
français
  
javanais
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Javanisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
  
Origin
9th Century
  
450 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Javanese
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
jv
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
jav
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
jav
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
jav
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
java1253
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative