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
  
Ukraine
  
National Language
France
  
Ukraine
  
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
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian 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.
  
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Merci
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
désolé
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
au revoir
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
African French
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
39.00 million
  
32
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
39.00 million
  
25
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
Not Available
  
Native Name
français
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Not Available
  
French Name
français
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
9th Century
  
1561
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic