French

français

Main information

Family

Indo-European

Branch

European

Group

Italic

Romance

Callo-iberian

Native speakers

73,746,080

Status

National

Region

France, Belgium, Switzerland, Monaco, Francophone Africa, Canada, and other locations

Characteristic

SVO; prepositions; noun head final for common adjectives, numbers, possessives, but most attributive adjectives come after the noun; gender (masculine/feminine); definite and indefinite articles; verb affixes mark person, number; passives; tense; comparatives; 20 consonant and 14 vowel phonemes; non-tonal; syllable-timed stress.

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