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
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Africa, Canada
Lesotho, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
Botswana, Lesotho
1.7 Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
Not Available
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
1.9 Similar To
Italian Language
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
1.10 Derived From
Latin
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
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
Not Available
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
3.3 How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
Unjani
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
Uben' emva kwemini entle
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
au revoir
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
South Africa
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 million20.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
76.00 million8.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
87.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Français
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Französisch
Xhosa-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Signed Xhosa
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
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available