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, Slovenia
  
National Language
France
  
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
  
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
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  
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.
  
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Serbo-Croatian
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Slovene-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
Halo
  
Thank You
Merci
  
Hvala
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
Kako se imate?
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
Lahko noč
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
Dober večer
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
Dober dan
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
Dobro jutro
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
Prosim
  
Sorry
désolé
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
au revoir
  
Nasvidenje
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Ljubim te
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
Oprostite
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Prekmurje Slovene
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Hungary, Slovenia
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
African French
  
Resian
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Italy
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Styrian
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Slovenia
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
2.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
2.50 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
Not Available
  
Native Name
français
  
Not available
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Slovenian, Slovenscina
  
French Name
français
  
slovène
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Slowenisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Slovenes
  
Origin
9th Century
  
972-1093
  
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
  
Slovene
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
sl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
slv
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
slv
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
slv
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
slov1268
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
53-AAA-f
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional