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
  
Georgia
  
National Language
France
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Cabinet of Georgia
  
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.
  
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Anatolian Languages
  
Alphabets in
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Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
Thank You
Merci
  
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
Sorry
désolé
  
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
Bye
au revoir
  
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
African French
  
Kartlian
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Kartli
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Pshavian
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Pshavi
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
4.30 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
4.30 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
Not Available
  
Native Name
français
  
ქართული ენა
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
French Name
français
  
géorgien
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Georgisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Georgians
  
Origin
9th Century
  
5th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Kartvelian Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Southern
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Modern Georgian
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
ka
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
kat
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
geo
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
kat
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
nucl1302
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic