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Arabic is a Central Semitic language, and has more speakers than any other language in the Semitic language family. It is spoken by more than 280 million people as a first language, most of whom live in the Middle East and North Africa. Modern spoken Arabic is the universal language of the Arabic-speaking world and is is understood by all Arabic speakers. It is widely taught in schools, universities, and used in workplaces, government and the media.

Assamese is the easternmost Indo-Aryan language, mainly used in the state of Assam in North-East India and parts of Arunachal Pradesh. It is spoken by approximately 15-20 million people and is also the official language of Assam.

Azerbaijani is the state official language of Azerbaijan and has over 30 million speakers. It is a Turkic language, and has two distinct appearances, one using the Latin alphabet and the other Perso-Arabic script.

Bengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit and Sanskrit languages. It has about 230 million speakers worldwide and ranks sixth among of the most spoken languages.

Bosnian is the name for Serbo-Croatian as spoken by Bosniaks. It is a South-Slavic language, spoken in Bosnia, Herzegovina, and other parts of former Yugoslavia. It uses both the Latin and Cyrillic scripts and has over 2 millions speakers.

Catalan is a Western Romance language with about 12 million speakers in eastern and northeastern Spain, chiefly in Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Isles, the eastern fringe of Aragon (La Franja) and in some municipalities of Murcia. It is also known as Valencian, although there is disagreement about whether Valencian is the same language, a completely different one, or a dialect of Catalan.

Cantonese, also called Yue Chinese, is a form of Chinese, spoken largely in Hong Kong and Macau, as well as certain regions of mainland China. Spoken Cantonese is mutually unintelligible with other forms of Chinese. It has over 56 million speakers worldwide.

Mandarin is the official language of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan). It is is one of the four official languages in Singapore, where it is called "Huayu". There are approximately 870 million Mandarin speakers.

Croation is the form of Serbo-Croatian spoken by Croats, mainly in Croatia and former parts of Yugoslavia. This South-Slavic language uses the Latin alphabet and has over 5 million speakers.

Spoken natively by over 20 million people, Dutch is a West Germanic language spoken mostly in the Netherlands (as the official languae), Belgium, and Suriname. It is also spoken in parts of Germany, France, and various former Dutch colonies. Dutch is also the parent language of Afrikaans and of several creole languages, most of which are extinct now.

English is the most commonly taught second language in the world. It is the language of science, aviation, computing, diplomacy, and tourism. It has the largest vocabulary of any world languages, borrowing from numerous other languages, and is considered by many to be the richest of the world's languages.

Esperanto is an artifical language, with no culture or country to call it's own. However, it is the most widely used international auxiliary language, with many books and magazines, as well as songs and radio stations, using it. The number of people who are fluent in it is unknown, with estimates ranging from ten thousand to two million, although no one is a native speaker.

Finnish is a Finno-Ugric language spoken by about 5 million people in Finland, where it is an official language, as well as in Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Canada and Russia.

French is the second most commonly-taught second language in the world, and considered by many to be the "language of love". It is the most prominant Romance language and a component of most creoles.

German is the third most learned language in the world. It is the language of many of the greatest and most influential minds of world history, composers, and writers.

Greek has the longest documented history of any Indo-European languages. It is the official language of Greece and Cyprus, and spoken by approximately 13 million people. Many modern languages have adopted or derived words from Greek.

Gujarati is an Indo-European language spoken in western India. It has 46 million native speakers, and along with Romani and Sindhi it is one of the most western Indo-Aryan language. Gujarati was the first language of both Mahatma Gandhi and Mohammed Ali Jinnah. It is written in the Gujarati script.

Haitian is a creole, evolved from a combination of French and several African languages, such as Wolof, Fon, and Ewe. While it still has some resemblance to its parent languages, it has developed into a full language of its own.

Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family, spoken by some 5 million people in Israel, where it is an official language along with Arabic. Culturally, it is considered the Jewish language. Classical Hebrew has been used for prayer or study in Jewish communities around the world for over two thousand years.

Hindi, also sometimes called Hindustani, is an Indo-European language derived from Sanskrit, and is the official language of India. It is the fourth most spoken language in the world. Hindi uses the Devanagari script and is very close to spoken Urdu. Hindi is the language most media in India is in and it also has the biggest film industry in the world.

Hungarian is a Uralic language, spoken mainly in Hungary, where it is the official language. It has about 13 million speakers and uses the Latin alphabet.

Icelandic is a North Germanic language and the main language of Iceland, with 300,000 speakers. It is the closest of the Northern Germanic languages to Old Norse, making it possible for Icelandic speakers to read the Old Norse sagas in the original language without too much difficulty.

Indonesian is an Austronesian language and the official language of Indonesia. It is very similar to Malay and is sometimes considered a dialect of Malay. Indonesian has 240 million speakers. It uses the Latin script.

Italian is the language of the Renaissance. It was the language of some of the world's greatest painters, sculptors and scholars. Today, it still retains its richness and beauty and inspiration of the land it comes from.

Japanese is the third largest language used on the Internet, after only English and Chinese. From anime to sushi bars, karaoke to manga, bonsai to origami, Japanese culture has become part of international culture, and its language is your gateway.

Kannada is a Dravidian language, spoken in India predominantly in the state of Karnataka, India. It has 50 million speakers and is an official language of India and the state language of Karnataka. Kannada is written with its own script, which is similar to the script used also for Telugu.

Kurdish is the language spoken in the dialect area known as Kurdistan, which is comprised of parts of Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey. It is written in varying scripts, including Latin, Cyrillic, and a varient of the Perso-Arabic script, depending on the region.

Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It was used throughout the Roman empire as the language of law, administration and increasingly as the language of everyday life. Literacy was common among Roman citizens and the works of great Latin authors were read by many. Although considered now to be a dead language, it continues to be taught in schools and universities.

As the official language of Latvia, Latvian has about 1.4 million native speakers, as well as many others in various other countries. It is a Baltic language, most closely related to Lithuanian.

Lithuanian is the official language of Lithuania and one of two living Baltic languages, along with Latvian. It is written in an adapted version of the Roman script, and is believed to be the most archaic of all the living Indo-European tongues.

Malayalam is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala. It is also widely spoken by Malayalam expats in United Arab Emirates. It is written in the Malayalam script.

Malay is an Austronesian languages with 40 million native speakers and 180 million speakers total. It is the official language of Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei, and also spoken in Singapore and East Timor.

Maltese is a Semitic language, and the only Semitic language that is an official language of the European Union and written in the Latin alphabet. It is the national language of Malta and contains many words borrowed from Italian, Sicilian, and English. It has less than 400 thousand speakers.

Marathi is an Indo-European language spoken in the Indian state Maharashtra. It has over 90 million speakers and is the fourth most spoken language in India. It is the fifteenth most spoken language in the world and is written in the Devanagari script.

Nepali, an Indo-European language ,is an official language of the Kingdom of Nepal. It serves as a lingua-franca for Nepal and is also spoken in parts of India and Bhutan. It uses the Devanagari script and has thirty-one million native speakers.

Norwegian is a North Germanic language, the official language of Norway, and has around 5 million speakers. It has two primary written forms: Bokmål ("book language") and Nynorsk ("new Norwegian").

Panjabi, or sometimes spelled Punjabi, is an Indo-European language spoken in the Northern Indian state of Punjab and in Pakistan. It is written in both the Gurumukhi script and the Shahmukhi script. It is the tenth most spoken language in the world. Panjabi is also largely associated with the Sikh religion and most Sikh texts are written in Panjabi.

Papiamento is a creole language composed from Portuguese, Spanish, English, Dutch, and some African and Arawak native languages. It is most widely spoken language on the Caribbean ABC islands, with about 330,000 speakers.

Pashto is an Iranian language, spoken in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran with approximately 38 million speakers. It was made the national language of Afghanistan in 1936 and is written in a version of the Arabic script.

Persian is the official language of Iran and is spoken by over 100 million people worldwide. It is also the basis for the Dari dialect of Afghanistan and the Tajik dialect of Tajikistan.

Polish is a Western Slavonic language and the official language of Poland. It has around 40 million speakers in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. Polish has the second largest number of speakers among Slavic languages, after Russian.

Portuguese is a Romance language closely related to both Spanish and Galician and ranks seventh according to number of native speakers (between 200 and 230 million). It is the official language of both Portugal and Brazil, with some differences in pronunciation, spelling, and use of pronouns.

Romanian is a Romance language spoken as the offical language in Romania and Moldova, but is also spoken in some parts of Hungary, Bulgaria and Ukraine as well as in the autonomous regions of Vojvodina in Serbia. It has around 24 to 28 million native speakers.

Russian has the triple honor of being the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken Slavic language, and the largest native language in Europe. It is an East Slavic language spoken by about 170 million people in Russia and former republics of the Soviet Union.

Sanskrit is a historical Indo-Aryan language and considered to be the mother of all European languages. It is widely used as a ceremonial language in Hindu religious rituals in the forms of hymns and mantras, and spoken Sanskrit is still in use in a few traditional institutions in India. While its usage is in decline, many attempts at its revival.

Scottish Gaelic is a Celtic language native to Scotland, and is closely related to Manx and Irish. It was brought to Scotland around the 4th century AD by the Scots from Ireland. The Scottish Gaelic dialects are mutually intelligible, and written Irish can be understood by speakers to a large extent.

Serbian is the version of Serbo-Croatian spoken by Serbs, mainly spoken in Serbia, Montenegro, and other parts of former Yugoslavia. It is a South-Slavic language, using both Latin and Cyrillic scripts, and has about 10 million speakers.

Sinhala is an Indo-European language spoken in Sri Lanka. It's very close to the Maldivian language of the Maldives. Sinhala has about 15 million speakers. It's written in the Sinhala script which is based off the Brahmi writing system.

Spanish, sometimes called Castilian, is the third most-spoken language in the world. It is the most widely spoken of the Romance languages, both in terms of number of speakers and the number of countries in which it is the dominant language. It is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.

Swedish, closely related to Norwegian and Danish, is the most widely spoken of the Scandinavian languages. It is spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, and is an offical language of both countries. Swedish is a descendant of Old Norse, the common language of the Germanic peoples living in Scandinavia during the Viking Era.

Tamil is a Dravidian language with over 65 million speakers. It is the official lanugage of Sri Lanka and Singapore, and is also spoken in parts of India and Malaysia.

Telugu, a Dravidian language, is spoken in the southern Indian state, Andhra Pradesh, but it is also spoken in small communities in Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. It is the third most spoken language in India and the fourteenth most spoken language in the world. Telugu is considered one of India's four classical languages.

Thai, a Tai-Kadai language, is the national and official language of Thailand. It is spoken by about 65 million people in Thailand and also in the Midway Islands, Singapore, the UAE and the USA. It is a tonal and analytic language with a complex orthography, relational markers, and its own alphabet, which can also be used to write Sanskrit, Pali and a number of other related languages.

Turkish is the most commonly spoken Turkic language with over 76 million speakers worldwide. It is the official language of Turkey and Cyprus, but us also spoken in several other countries, including Albania, Moldova, and Uzbekistan.

Ukrainian is the official language of Ukraine, in the East-Slavic family, using a varient of the Cyrillic alphabet. It has around 47 million speakers.

Urdu is a Central Indo-Aryan language and spoken by more than 100 million people. It is the national language of Pakistan and largely spoken in some regions of India. Standard Urdu is mutually intelligible with Standard Hindi, and the combined population of Hindi and Urdu speakers is the fourth largest in the world.

Welsh is a Celtic language spoken mainly in Wales and parts of England. It was recently made an official language of Wales, and is struggling to revive itself, with less than a million native speakers.