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 |
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| Standard | |
| 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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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ