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Language code: fre

Technical information about ISO 639 language code fre

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

Code

fre (Bibliographic)

Name

Official

French

Native

Français

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Metropolitan FrenchCanadian FrenchAcadian FrenchBelgian FrenchSwiss FrenchWest Indian French
Related languages
OccitanFranco-ProvençalCatalanItalianSpanish
Key facts
Modern French descends from the langue d’oïl group of Gallo-Romanceroughly one-third of everyday English vocabulary is of French originspelling preserves many silent letters and historical consonantsthe Académie française, founded in 1635, is charged with standardizing the languageFrench uses two grammatical genders but has largely lost the Latin case system.
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 fre, 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: fre for bibliographic purposes and fra for terminology uses.

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