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, Malta
  
National Language
France
  
Malta
  
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
  
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
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.
  
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Roman Languages
  
Alphabets in
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Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
Ħello
  
Thank You
Merci
  
Grazzi
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
Kif int?
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
Jekk jogħġbok
  
Sorry
désolé
  
Skużani!
  
Bye
au revoir
  
Ċaw
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
Skużi!
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Qormi
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Malta
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
African French
  
Żejtun
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Malta
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Not Present
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
0.52 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
0.52 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
Not Available
  
Native Name
français
  
Malti
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Malti
  
French Name
français
  
maltais
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Maltesisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Maltese
  
Origin
9th Century
  
c. 1470
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Abric
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Maltese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Maltese Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
mt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
malt1254
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
12-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Synthetic