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, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
  
National Language
France
  
Moldova, Romania
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Kazakhstan, Russia
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
  
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.
  
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
alo
  
Thank You
Merci
  
multumesc
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
ce mai faci?
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
noapte Buna
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
buna Seara
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
buna Ziua
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
bună Dimineața
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
Vă Rog
  
Sorry
désolé
  
scuze
  
Bye
au revoir
  
La revedere
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Te iubesc
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
Scuza-Ma
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Aromanian
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
African French
  
Megleno-Romanian
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Istro-Romanian
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
28.00 million
  
38
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
24.00 million
  
33
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
4.00 million
  
30
Native Name
français
  
Română
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
  
French Name
français
  
roumain; moldave
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Rumänisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
[roˈmɨnə]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Romanians
  
Origin
9th Century
  
1521
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Proto-Romanian
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Romanian
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Romanian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
ro
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
ron
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
rum
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
ron
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
roma1327
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
51-AAD-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Synthetic