1 Countries
1.1 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
Madagascar
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
France
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
1.4 Second Language
Africa, Canada
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
Not Available
1.8 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.
- Malagasy language was originated in southeast Asia, since it shares several common words and meanings with Indonesian Languages.
- About 93% of the basic vocabulary is of Malayo-Polynesian origin in Malagasy language.
1.9 Similar To
Italian Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
Manao ahoana!
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
Manao ahoana e
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Quebec French
Eastern Malagasy
4.1.1 Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
Merina
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
6,200,000.005,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
African French
Western Malagasy
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,200,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Swiss French
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
163.00 millionNA
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
76.00 million18.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Français
Malagasy Sign Language
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Französisch
Malagassi-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Malagasy people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard French
standard Malagasy
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Verb-Object-Subject
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available