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
  
India
  
National Language
France
  
India
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
NA
  
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.
  
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
  
Similar To
Italian Language
  
Bengali Language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
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Gujarati-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
bonjour
  
નમસ્તે (namaste)
  
Thank You
Merci
  
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
  
Sorry
désolé
  
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
  
Bye
au revoir
  
બાય (Bāya)
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Kathiyawadi
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
African French
  
Kharwa
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
60.00 million
  
27
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
50.00 million
  
22
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
Not Available
  
Native Name
français
  
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
  
French Name
français
  
goudjrati
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Gujarati-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Gujaratis
  
Origin
9th Century
  
15
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Old Gujarati
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Modern Gujarati
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
gu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
guj
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
guj
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
guj
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
guja1252
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available