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, Poland
  
National Language
France
  
Poland
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
  
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.
  
- Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
- The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Polish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
cześć
  
Thank You
Merci
  
dziękuję
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
Jak się masz?
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
dobranoc
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
dobry wieczór
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
dzień dobry
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
Dzień dobry
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
proszę
  
Sorry
désolé
  
Przepraszam
  
Bye
au revoir
  
do widzenia
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
kocham Cię
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
przepraszam
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Kashubian
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Poland
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
108,000.00
  
99+
Dialect 2
African French
  
Masovian
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Poland
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Silesian
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Czech Republic, Poland
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
40.00 million
  
31
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
40.00 million
  
24
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
Not Available
  
Native Name
français
  
Polski
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Polnisch, Polski
  
French Name
français
  
polonais
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Polnisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
[ˈpɔlski]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Poles
  
Origin
9th Century
  
1270
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Old Polish and Middle Polish
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Polish
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
pl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
pol
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
pol
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
pol
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
pols
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
poli1260
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
53-AAA-cc
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic