French

FRA

national

Alternate Names: Français

Dialects: Angevin, Berrichon, Bourbonnais, Bourguignon, Franc-Comtois, Gallo, Lorraine, Norman (Normand), Poitevin, Saintongeais, Standard French. Lexical similarity: 89% with Italian ,, 80% with Logudorese Sardinian ,, 78% with Romansch ,, 75% with Portuguese ,, Romanian ,, and Spanish,, 29% with German ,, 27% with English ,.

Genealogy:

Indo-European
Italic
Romance
Italo-Western
Western
Gallo-Iberian
Gallo-Romance
Gallo-Rhaetian
Oïl
French

Demographics: 60,000,000 in France (ELDIA 2012). Population total all countries: 74,980,460.

Language Use: 21,490,000 also use English [eng]. 7,760,000 also use Spanish [spa]. 4,776,000 also use Standard German [deu].

Language Development: Fully developed. Bible: 1530–2000.

Typology: SVO.

Spoken In: Vanuatu, Switzerland, France, Canada, Algeria, Andorra, Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, French Guiana, Gabon, Guadeloupe, Guinea, Haiti, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Lebanon, Mali, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Réunion, Senegal, Seychelles, Togo

Writing System: Braille, Latin

Nation of Origin: France, Lebanon, Martinique, Monaco

Other Comments: Christian.