1 Countries
1.1 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
Sri Lanka
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 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 Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
1.9 Similar To
Italian Language
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
Merci
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
bonne Nuit
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
bonsoir
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
Bonjour
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
S'il vous plaît
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
désolé
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Je t'aime
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
Sri Lanka
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
African French
Not Available
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Swiss French
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
163.00 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
76.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
87.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Français
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Französisch
Singhalesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard French
Modern Sinhalese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional