ISO 639-3 · frafra
Indo-European family
French
français
French is a language of the Oïl branch (Indo-European), spoken in Gabon, Guinea, Ivory Coast and Cameroon and 40 more countries. Wikidata counts 77.2 m first-language speakers (2019) and 208.2 m who speak it as a second language. Wikidata describes it as “Romance language”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
fra- ISO 639-1
fr- Glottocode
stan1290- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 0 International
- UNESCO
- Safe
- Centre point
- 48.85, 2.35
- Wikipedia
- 352 language editions
77.2 mfirst-language speakers
208.2 msecond-language speakers
44countries
2scripts
10levels in the tree
0EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | French · français |
|---|---|
| Also called | French language |
| L1 speakers | 77,200,000 (2019) |
| L2 speakers | 208,157,220 (2016) |
| Written in | French alphabet, French Braille |
| Official in | Gabon, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mauritius, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, France, Canada, Monaco, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Chad, Vanuatu, Haiti, Central African Republic, Togo, Benin, Burundi, Comoros, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea |
| Grammatical genders | 2 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 0 International0
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Safe
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From Indo-European to French
The branches above French, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Gabonofficial · 40 languages in the indexGuineaofficial · 32 languages in the indexIvory Coastofficial · 54 languages in the indexCameroonofficial · 243 languages in the indexMadagascarofficial · 15 languages in the indexMauritaniaofficial · 8 languages in the indexMauritiusofficial · 5 languages in the indexRwandaofficial · 4 languages in the indexSenegalofficial · 34 languages in the indexSeychellesofficial · 3 languages in the indexFranceofficial · 84 languages in the indexCanadaofficial · 112 languages in the indexMonacoofficial · 3 languages in the indexBelgiumofficial · 13 languages in the indexLuxembourgofficial · 4 languages in the indexSwitzerlandofficial · 12 languages in the indexChadofficial · 117 languages in the indexVanuatuofficial · 113 languages in the indexHaitiofficial · 3 languages in the indexCentral African Republicofficial · 47 languages in the indexTogoofficial · 38 languages in the indexBeninofficial · 46 languages in the indexBurundiofficial · 5 languages in the indexComorosofficial · 6 languages in the indexRepublic of the Congoofficial · 44 languages in the indexDemocratic Republic of the Congoofficial · 166 languages in the indexDjiboutiofficial · 5 languages in the indexEquatorial Guineaofficial · 15 languages in the indexBurkina Faso49 languages in the indexMali52 languages in the indexNiger18 languages in the indexAlgeria18 languages in the indexAndorra3 languages in the indexCambodia21 languages in the indexGuernsey2 languages in the indexIndia395 languages in the indexItaly39 languages in the indexJersey2 languages in the indexLebanon8 languages in the indexMorocco14 languages in the indexVietnam84 languages in the indexTunisia7 languages in the indexLaos62 languages in the indexUnited States245 languages in the index
Also spoken in Gabon
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