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
  
National Language
France
  
South Africa
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Lesotho, South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Botswana, Lesotho
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
  
Alphabets in
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Xhosa-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
Molo
  
Thank You
Merci
  
Ndiyabulela
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
Unjani
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
Ulale kakuhle
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
Ubusuku obuhle
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
Uben' emva kwemini entle
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
Molo
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
Ndicela
  
Sorry
désolé
  
Ndicela uxolo
  
Bye
au revoir
  
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Ndiyakuthanda
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
Uxolo
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Gcaleka
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
South Africa
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
African French
  
Thembu
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
South Africa
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Hlubi
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
South Africa
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
20.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
8.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
11.00 million
  
21
Native Name
français
  
isiXhosa
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
  
French Name
français
  
xhosa
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Xhosa-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
  
Origin
9th Century
  
16th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Bantu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
isiXhosa
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Signed Xhosa
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
xh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
xho
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
xho
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
xho
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
xhos1239
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
99-AUT-fa
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available