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
  
Macedonia
  
National Language
France
  
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Albania, Romania, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
  
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.
  
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
Merci
  
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
Добар ден (Dobar den)
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
  
Sorry
désolé
  
жал (žal)
  
Bye
au revoir
  
Чао (Čao)
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Те сакам (Te sakam)
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
African French
  
Debar
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Macedonia
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Galičnik
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Macedonia
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
2.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
2.50 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
Not Available
  
Native Name
français
  
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
  
French Name
français
  
macédonien
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Makedonisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Macedonians
  
Origin
9th Century
  
2200 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Macedonian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
mk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
mac
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
mace1250
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
53-AAA-ha
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic