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Language code: fra

Technical information about ISO 639 language code fra

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The table below provides technical details for the French language, designated by the fra code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

fra (Terminology)

Name

Official

French

Native

Français

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Metropolitan FrenchBelgian FrenchSwiss FrenchQuebec FrenchAcadian FrenchLouisiana FrenchAfrican French
Related languages
ItalianSpanishPortugueseCatalanOccitanWalloon
Key facts
Descends from the Gallo-Romance variety of Vulgar LatinThe Académie française, founded in 1635, officially regulates spelling and vocabularyFeatures mandatory liaison between certain words, a phonological process rare among Romance languagesHas influenced global culinary, diplomatic, and scientific terminologyBorrowed extensively from English in the 20th and 21st centuries, sparking ongoing purist debates
Sample phrase

Bonjour, comment ça va ?

Character encodings

ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-15, Windows 1252, CP 850, MacRoman, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The French language, identified by the code fra, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

The ISO 639-2 standard offers two codes for the French language: fra for terminology purposes and fre for bibliographic uses.

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