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
  
Philippines
  
National Language
France
  
Philippines
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Filipinos
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Asia, Australia
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
  
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 1593, "Doctrina Christiana" was first book written in two versions of Tagalog.
- The name "Tagalog" means "native to" and "river". "Tagalog"is derived from taga ilog, which means "inhabitants of the river".
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tagalog-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Baybayin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
Kamusta
  
Thank You
Merci
  
Salamat po
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
Kamusta ka na?
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
Magandang gabi
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
Magandang gabi po
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
Magandang hapon po
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
Magandang umaga po
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
pakiusap
  
Sorry
désolé
  
pinagsisisihan
  
Bye
au revoir
  
Paálam
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Iniibig kita
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Batangas Tagalog
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Batangas, Gabon
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
African French
  
Bisalog
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Philippines
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Filipino
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Philippines
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
73.00 million
  
24
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
28.00 million
  
29
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
45.00 million
  
13
Native Name
français
  
Tagalog
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Filipino, Pilipino
  
French Name
français
  
tagalog
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Tagalog
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Tagalog people
  
Origin
9th Century
  
1593
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Filipino
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
t1
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
tgl
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
tgl
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
tg1
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
taga1269
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
31-CKA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available