Fransuzcha

Fransuzcha is the Uzbek term for the French language, used in Uzbek-speaking contexts to refer to French as a language, its study, and its use in communication, culture, and international affairs.

French is a Romance language in the Indo-European family. It evolved from Gallo-Romance in northern France, with influence from Frankish and other languages. Over the centuries it standardized through education, administration, and literature, with the Académie française founded in 1635 to regulate vocabulary, grammar, and usage.

Fransuzcha uses the Latin alphabet with diacritics such as the cedilla under c and various accents. The modern written standard is largely based on metropolitan French, though regional varieties and borrowed forms influence everyday writing. Orthography has seen reforms and ongoing discussion by linguistic authorities and language communities.

Major varieties of French include European French (France), Canadian French (notably Québécois and Acadian), and numerous African forms, along with Belgian and Swiss French. Pronunciation, vocabulary, and some grammatical usage differ across regions, but these varieties remain largely mutually intelligible in formal contexts, with distinctive registers and local expressions in everyday speech.

French is one of the world’s major languages, an official or widely used language in about 29 countries and numerous international organizations. It plays a significant role in diplomacy, business, education, and culture, and is widely studied as a second language. Its literary, philosophical, and scientific traditions have had a lasting global impact.