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
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
France
  
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, 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
  
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Board for Standardization of the Serbian 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.
  
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
Merci
  
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
Молим (Molim)
  
Sorry
désolé
  
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
Bye
au revoir
  
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Prizren-Timok
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Southeastern Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
African French
  
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Serbia
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
1,500,000.00
  
17
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
8.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
8.70 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
Not Available
  
Native Name
français
  
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Montenegrin
  
French Name
français
  
serbe
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Serbisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Serbs
  
Origin
9th Century
  
11th Century
  
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
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Standard Serbian
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
sr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
srp
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
srp
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
srp
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
serb1264
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available