French leid

French
français
Pronunciation	[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
Native tae	Fraunce, now worldwide (See geographical distribution below)
Native speakers	~150 million (2017)[1] An estimated 274 million total speakers (L1 plus L2) (2014)[2][3]
Leid faimily	Indo-European Italic Romance Western Romance Gallo-Romance Oïl French
Early forms	Old French Middle French
Writin seestem	Latin (French alphabet) French Braille
Leid codes
ISO 639-1	fr
ISO 639-2	fre (B) fra (T)
ISO 639-3	fra
Linguasphere	51-AAA-i
Regions where French is the main leid   Regions where it is an offeecial leid   Regions where it is a second leid   Regions where it is a minority leid

French is the leid that's spak in Fraunce, Canadae (Quebec, New Brunswick), Soothren Belgium, Luxembourg (alang wi German and Letzebuergisch) an Wastren Swisserland (La suisse Romande). It wis spreid tae Africae, Sooth Aest Asie an pairts o the New Warld throu French colonisation. French is a Romance leid, meanin that it comes frae the Laitin leid. Like maist Romance leids, its nouns haes masculine an feminine gender.

1. ↑ "Ethnologue: French". Retrieved 23 September 2017.
2. ↑ "French language is on the up, report reveals". 6 November 2014.
3. ↑ http://www.francophonie.org/Welcome-to-the-International.html Archived 2014-04-01 at the Wayback Machine Organisation internationale de la Francophonie