French is a Romance language (meaning that it is descended primarily from Vulgar Latin) that evolved out of the Gallo … See more

Spoken by 19.71% of the European Union's population, French is the third most widely spoken language in the EU, after English and German and the second-most-widely taught language after English.
Under the … See more

• African French
• Aostan French
• Belgian French
• Cambodian French
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A leading world language, French is taught in universities around the world, and is one of the world's most influential languages because of its wide use in the worlds of journalism, jurisprudence, education, and diplomacy. … See more

Vowel phonemes in French
Although there are many French regional accents, foreign learners normally use only one variety of the language.
• There are a maximum of 17 vowels in French, no… See more

French is written with the 26 letters of the basic Latin script, with four diacritics appearing on vowels (circumflex accent, acute accent, grave accent, diaeresis) and the cedilla appearing in "ç".
There are two … See more

French is a moderately inflected language. Nouns and most pronouns are inflected for number (singular or plural, though in most nouns the plural is pronounced the same as the singular even if spelled differently); adjectives, … See more