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
  
Wales
  
National Language
France
  
Wales
  
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
  
Argentina, United Kingdom
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Welsh Language Commissioner
  
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.
  
- One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
- Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
English Language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
British Language
  
Alphabets in
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Welsh-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
Helô
  
Thank You
Merci
  
Diolch
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
Sut ydych chi?
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
Nos da
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
Noswaith dda
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
P'nawn da
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
Bore da
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
os gwelwch yn dda
  
Sorry
désolé
  
Mae'n ddrwg gennym
  
Bye
au revoir
  
Hwyl
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Dw i'n dy garu di
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
Esgusodwch fi
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Patagonian Welsh
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Argentina
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
African French
  
Y Wyndodeg
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Gwynedd
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Y Bowyseg
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Powys
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
7.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
7.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
Not Available
  
Native Name
français
  
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Cymraeg
  
French Name
français
  
gallois
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Kymrisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Welsh people
  
Origin
9th Century
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Celtic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Brythonic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Welsh
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
cy
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
cym
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
wel
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
cym
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
wels1247
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
50-ABA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Verb-Subject-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional