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
  
Benin, Nigeria
  
National Language
France
  
Nigeria
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Yoruba Academy
  
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 largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Owo and Itsekiri languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
Ẹ n lẹ
  
Thank You
Merci
  
e dupe
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
Bawo ni o se wa
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
Kasun layọ o
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
ka a ale
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
e kaasan
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
e kaaro
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
Jowo
  
Sorry
désolé
  
binu
  
Bye
au revoir
  
bye
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
mo nifẹ rẹ
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
mo tọrọ gafara
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Itsekiri
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
African French
  
Ede
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Benin, Togo
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Ulukwumi
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
28.00 million
  
29
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
Not Available
  
Native Name
français
  
Yorùbá
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Yariba, Yooba
  
French Name
français
  
yoruba
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Yoruba-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Yoruba people
  
Origin
9th Century
  
4 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Western Sudanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Kwa
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Yorùbá
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Yoruba Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
yo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
yor
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
yor
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
yor
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
yoru1245
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating