Family / Group : Indo-European, Italic, Latin, Romance
Area : France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada (Québec), French Guiana, Luxembourg, French West Indies, Reunion, Mauritius, Italy, Africa, New-Caledonia, Polynesia
Type : mildly fusional; accusative marking (only with pronouns)
Inflectional language : Yes
Language with gender : F, M
Sources of lexicon : homolexical; old Greek and Latin elements for learned denumerals
Language with sortal classifiers : No
Syntactics for numerals : NUM N
Specific traits : SOV, with several VSO constructions
Numeration base : Decimal, vigesimal (vestigial)
Comments : About 63,000,000 users in France, about 23,000,000 users in all countries (as L1 77,000,000, as L2 154,000,000)(2012)(source Ethnologue)