Countries
India
  
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
  
National Language
India
  
France
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Africa, Canada
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Interesting Facts
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
  
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
Similar To
Old German Language
  
Italian Language
  
Derived From
Prakrit Language
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
  
bonjour
  
Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
  
Merci
  
How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
  
Comment allez-vous?
  
Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
  
bonne Nuit
  
Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
  
bonsoir
  
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
  
bon Après-Midi
  
Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
  
Bonjour
  
Please
कृपया (kripayā)
  
S'il vous plaît
  
Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
  
désolé
  
Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
  
au revoir
  
I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
  
Je t'aime
  
Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
  
Excuse Moi
  
Dialect 1
Not present
  
Quebec French
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
Not present
  
African French
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Africa
  
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Swiss French
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
Total No. Of Dialects
0
  
How Many People Speak?
14.10 million
  
99+
163.00 million
  
11
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
14.10 million
  
99+
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
87.00 million
  
11
Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
  
français
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Français
  
French Name
sanskrit
  
français
  
German Name
Sanskrit
  
Französisch
  
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
  
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Origin
2000 B.C.
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Romance
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
  
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
  
Standard French
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sa
  
fr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
san
  
fra
  
ISO 639 2/B
san
  
fre
  
ISO 639 3
san
  
fra
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
fras
  
Glottocode
sans1269
  
stan1290
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
51-AAA-i
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Ancient
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Sanskrit and French Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Sanskrit and French greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sanskrit and French language. Sanskrit word for "Hello" is नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ) or French word for "Thank You" is Merci. Find more of such common Sanskrit Greetings and French Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sanskrit vs French Difficulty
The Sanskrit vs French difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sanskrit Alphabets and French Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Sanskrit and French are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sanskrit and French, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sanskrit is 20 weeks while to learn French time required is 24 weeks.