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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
India, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
322
Bhojpuri
0 46
1.3 National Language
France
Nepal
1.4 Second Language
Africa, Canada
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
People's Republic of China
1.7 Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
  • Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
  • Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
1.9 Similar To
Italian Language
Hindi
1.10 Derived From
Latin
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2648
Irish
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
612
Hebrew
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2036
German
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
66
Bengali
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
Cebuano
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
bonjour
नमस्ते (namaste)
3.2 Thank You
Merci
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
3.3 How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
3.4 Good Night
bonne Nuit
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
3.5 Good Evening
bonsoir
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
3.6 Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
Good afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
Bonjour
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
3.8 Please
S'il vous plaît
कृपया
3.9 Sorry
désolé
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
3.10 Bye
au revoir
नमस्ते (namaste)
3.11 I Love You
Je t'aime
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
3.12 Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Quebec French
Doteli
4.1.1 Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00790,000.00
Macedonian
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
African French
Bajhangi
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Africa
India, Nepal
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
Dzongkha
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Swiss French
Baitadeli
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
Nepal
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00NA
Romanian
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
2512
Sanskrit
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
163.00 million30.00 million
Abkhaz
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
1.12 %0.25 %
Xhosa
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
76.00 million25.00 million
Abkhaz
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
87.00 million5.00 million
Finnish
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
français
नेपाली (nēpālī)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Français
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
5.3.4 French Name
français
népalais
5.3.5 German Name
Französisch
Nepali
5.4 Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
6 History
6.1 Origin
9th Century
19 BC
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Romance
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Indic
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard French
Nepali
6.3.3 Language Position
1359
Chinese
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Signed Nepali
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
fr
ne
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
fra
nep
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
fre
nep
7.3 ISO 639 3
fra
npi
7.4 ISO 639 6
fras
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
stan1290
nepa1254
7.6 Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
12
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative