Countries
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
Total No. Of Countries
32
3
1
14
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
Alphabets in
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Alphabets
26
8
33
15
Phonology
How Many Vowels
6
3
5
2
How Many Consonants
20
10
28
18
Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
6
5
6
5
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks
6
44 weeks
11
Greetings
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)
Dialects
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
80,000.00
99+
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
Total No. Of Dialects
25
21
20
18
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
11
4.30 million
99+
Speaking Population
1.12 %
17
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
History
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
Language Position
13
12
120
99+
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Not Available
Code
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
