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
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
France
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
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.
  
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Merci
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
désolé
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
au revoir
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
African French
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
français
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Russki
  
French Name
français
  
russe
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Russians
  
Origin
9th Century
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic