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 |
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| Standard | |
| 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 |
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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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- 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