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Arabic
Arabic is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns language codes to 32 varieties of Arabic, including its standard form of Literary Arabic, known as Modern Standard Arabic, which is derived from Classical Arabic. This distinction exists primarily among Western linguists; Arabic speakers themselves generally do not distinguish between Modern Standard Arabic and Classical Arabic, but rather refer to both as ( "the eloquent Arabic") or simply '''' ().
Italian
Romance language
Portuguese
Western Romance language
Liberia
Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean to its south and southwest. It has a population of around 5.5million and covers an area of . The official language is English. Over 20 indigenous languages are spoken, reflecting the country's ethnic and cultural diversity. The capital and largest city is Monrovia.
Esperanto
Esperanto () is the world's most widely spoken constructed auxiliary language. Created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887 as "the International Language" (), it is intended to be a universal second language for international communication. He described the language in ''Dr. Esperanto's International Language'' (known as , the "first book"), which he published under the pseudonym . Early adopters of the language liked the name and soon used it to describe his language. The word translates into English as "one who hopes".
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean, covering . It is the third-largest island in the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean, after Cuba and the island of Hispaniola. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and southeast of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory). With million people, Jamaica is the third most populous Anglophone country in the Americas and the fourth most populous country in the Caribbean. Kingston is the country's capital and largest city.
Swedish
North Germanic language spoken in Sweden and Finland
Polish
West Slavic language
Turkish
Oghuz Turkic language of the Turkish people

Urdu
Urdu (, , ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in South Asia. It is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also an official Eighth Schedule language in India, the status and cultural heritage of which are recognised by the Constitution of India — alongside having official status in several Indian states (Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, and both Telugu states).
Catalan
Western Romance language
Swahili
Swahili, also known as Kiswahili, is a Bantu language originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya, and Mozambique (along the East African coast and adjacent littoral islands). Estimates of the number of Swahili speakers, including both native and second-language speakers, generally range from 150 million to 200 million. Most native speakers reside in Tanzania and Kenya.
Sylheti
Indo-Aryan language
Azerbaijani
Oghuz Turkic language
Estonian
Finnic language
Belarusian
East Slavic language
Occitan
Romance language of Western Europe
Luxembourgish
Luxembourgish ( ; also Luxemburgish, Luxembourgian, Letzebu(e)rgesch; ) is a West Germanic language that is spoken mainly in Luxembourg. About 400,000 people speak Luxembourgish worldwide.
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Amharic
Amharic is an Ethio-Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is spoken as a first language by the Amhara people, and also serves as a lingua franca for all other metropolitan populations in Ethiopia.
Kannada
Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a second or third language for 15 million speakers in Karnataka. It is the official and administrative language of Karnataka. It also has scheduled status in India and has been included among the country's designated classical languages.
Quechua
language family spoken primarily in the Andes region of South America
Gujarati
Indo-Aryan language that is spoken on the state of Gujarat
Abkhaz
Northwest Caucasian language native to northwestern Georgia
Zazaki
Indo-European language spoken by Zaza people
Hausa
Chadic language native to the Hausa people
Hawaiian
Polynesian language

Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croatian, also known as Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS), is a Western South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. It is a pluricentric language with four mutually intelligible standard varieties, namely Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin.
Horn of Africa
land projection in East Africa in the Punt peninsula
Crimean Tatar
Turkic language spoken in Crimea
Romani
language of the Romani people belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family
Sindhi
Indo-Aryan language spoken in Pakistan and India
Greenlandic
Eskimo-Aleut language spoken in Greenland
Avar
language belonging to the Avar–Andic group of the Northeast Caucasian language family
Sámi
group of Uralic languages spoken by the Sámi people in northern Europe
Friulian
Romance language belonging to the Rhaeto-Romance family, spoken in the Friuli region of northeastern Italy
Adyghe
one of the official languages of the Republic of Adygea in Russia
Rusyn
East Slavic language spoken by Carpathian Rusyns, Lemkos, Boykos, and Hutsuls
Tok Pisin
English creole spoken in Papua New Guinea
Okinawa
smallest of the five main islands of Japan
Lezgian
Northeast Caucasian language that belongs to the Lezgic languages

Judaeo-Spanish
Judaeo-Spanish or Judeo-Spanish (autonym , Hebrew script: ), also known as Ladino or Judezmo, Sephardi or Spaniolit, is a Romance language derived from Castilian Old Spanish.
Nauruan
Austronesian language spoken in Nauru
Aromanian
Eastern Romance language of the Southern Balkans

Papiamento
Papiamento (), or Papiamentu (; ), is a Portuguese-based creole language spoken in the Dutch Caribbean. It is the most widely spoken language on Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao (the ABC islands).
Tetum
Timoric language spoken on the island of Timor

Moksha
language part of the Mordvinic branch of the Uralic languages and the majority language in the western part of Mordovia
Mari
Uralic language
Norman
Romance language of northwest France
Võro
dialect of the South Estonian [Võro-Seto] language
language isolate
language that has no demonstrable genetic relationship with another language
Picard
Gallo-Romance language spoken in northern France and southern Belgium
Gilbertese
language from the Austronesian family
Hiri Motu
Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea
Awadhi
Indo-Aryan language spoken in Northern India
Herero
Bantu language of Nambia and Botswana
American Sign Language
sign language used predominately in the United States
Sango
Ngbandi-based creole of the Central African Republic
Bauchi State
State in Nigeria
Luganda
Ganda or Luganda ( ; ) is a Bantu language spoken in the African Great Lakes region. It is one of the major languages in Uganda and is spoken by more than 5.56 million Ugandans Baganda and other people principally in central Uganda, including the country's capital, Kampala. Typologically, it is an agglutinative, tonal language with subject–verb–object word order and nominative–accusative morphosyntactic alignment.
Laz
South Caucasian language in the Kartvelian family, close to Mingrelian, spoken by the Laz people on the southeastern shore of the Black Sea