French Translation Services
Traducta ranks among the top translation firms in Canada, providing French translation services to industry-leading and Fortune 500 companies across North America.
French is spoken in 75 territories and communities across the world making it a prominent language in today's world stage. It is spoken by approximately 136,000,000 people in additional to being one of the 6 official languages of the United Nations.
Traducta has specialized in French translation services since 1978 and has a strong client base in the Montreal translation area, Toronto translation area, and Mississauga translation area as well as for translation in the United States and Canada.
We are trusted by business professionals and industry leading organizations to provide them with the accurate, flawless and detail-oriented translations that effectively communicate their message to their target audience.
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French Statistics
Number of words
The number of words contained in the French language is still debated, but ranges from 140,000 to 270,000 words. If we assume a median between both numbers, we can estimate that the French language contains approximately 205,000 words.
Speakers
130,000,000- 145,000,000 Native Speakers
Approximately 360,000,000 speakers including French as a second (or third) language
French Alphabet (printed)
The modern French alphabet is a Latin-based alphabet consisting of 26 letters.
| Uppercase or Capital letter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
| Lowercase or small letter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z |
French includes 4 diacritics appearing only on vowels (circumflex, acute and grave accents, diaeresis) in addition to the cedilla appearing on the "c" as <ç>.
It should be noted there are 2 ligatures, œ and æ.
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Character Table
As mentioned in the section "French Alphabet", French uses many diacritics (otherwise accented characters). Below you will find a reference table for your convenience.
| Character | ALT Codes (Windows Decimal) | HTML Code |
| À à |
Uppercase: ALT+0192 lowercase: ALT+0224 |
À à |
| Â â |
Uppercase: ALT+0194 lowercase: ALT+0226 |
 â |
| É é |
Uppercase: ALT+0201 lowercase: ALT+0233 |
É É |
| È è |
Uppercase: ALT+0200 lowercase: ALT+0232 |
È è |
| Ê ê |
Uppercase: ALT+0202 lowercase: ALT+0234 |
Ê ê |
| Ë ë |
Uppercase: ALT+0203 lowercase: ALT+0235 |
Ë ë |
| Î î |
Uppercase: ALT+0206 lowercase: ALT+0238 |
Î î |
| Ï ï |
Uppercase: ALT+0207 lowercase: ALT+0239 |
Ï ï |
| Ô ô |
Uppercase: ALT+0212 lowercase: ALT+0244 |
Ô ô |
| Ö ö |
Uppercase: ALT+0214 lowercase: ALT+0246 |
Ö ö |
| Û û |
Uppercase: ALT+0219 lowercase: ALT+0251 |
Û û |
| Ù ù |
Uppercase: ALT+0217 lowercase: ALT+0249 |
Ù ù |
| Ç ç |
Uppercase: ALT+0199 lowercase: ALT+0231 |
Ç ç |
| Œ œ |
Uppercase: ALT+0338 lowercase: ALT+0339 |
Œ œ |
| Æ æ |
Uppercase: ALT+0198 lowercase: ALT+02230 |
&Aelig; æ |
Encoding (Web)
ISO 10646, ISO 8879, ISO 8859-1 (also referred to as "Latin-1") are the most common and usable for most Western European languages, including French.
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