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English language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family. It emerged in early medieval England and has since become a global lingua franca. The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who migrated to Britain after the end of Roman rule. English is the most spoken language in the world, primarily due to the global influences of the former British Empire and the United States. It is the most widely learned second language in the world, with more second-language speakers than native speakers. However, English is only the third-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.
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German
West Germanic language native to Central Europe
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Spanish
Romance language originating in the Iberian Peninsula
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French
Romance language
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Russian
East Slavic language
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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 '''' ().
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Latin
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy. Through the expansion of the Roman Republic, it became the dominant language in the Italian Peninsula and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. It has greatly influenced many languages, including English, having contributed many words to the English lexicon, particularly after the Christianisation of the Anglo-Saxons and the Norman Conquest. Latin roots appear frequently in the
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Italian
Romance language
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Japanese
language spoken in East Asia
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Portuguese
Western Romance language
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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".
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Persian
Western Iranian language
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Greek
Indo-European language
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Hebrew
Northwest Semitic language
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Dutch
West Germanic language
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Polish
West Slavic language
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Swedish
North Germanic language spoken in Sweden and Finland
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Turkish
Oghuz Turkic language of the Turkish people
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Ukrainian
East Slavic language
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Finnish
Finno-Ugric language mostly spoken in Finland
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Hindi
Modern Standard Hindi (), commonly referred to as Hindi, is an Indo-Aryan language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of the government of India, and is the lingua franca for most of the northern half of India.
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Korean
language spoken in Korean Peninsula and some parts of North-eastern China
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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).
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Czech
West Slavic language
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Catalan
Western Romance language
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Danish
North Germanic language spoken in Northern Europe
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Romanian
Romance language
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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.
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Hungarian
Uralic language
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Bangla
Indo-Aryan language mostly spoken in Bangladesh and India
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Croatian
South Slavic language spoken in Croatia
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Sylheti
Indo-Aryan language
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Norwegian
North Germanic language spoken in Norway
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Azerbaijani
Oghuz Turkic language
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Afrikaans
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Estonian
Finnic language
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Irish
language native to Ireland
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Bulgarian
South Slavic language
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Belarusian
East Slavic language
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Indonesian
official language of Indonesia
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Icelandic
North Germanic language mainly spoken in Iceland
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Lithuanian
Baltic language spoken in Lithuania
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Armenian
Indo-European language
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Slovak
West Slavic language spoken in Slovakia
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Tamil
Dravidian language native to South India and Sri Lanka
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Albanian
Indo-European language, spoken primarily in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Montenegro
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Basque
language of the Basque people
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Georgian
Kartvelian language
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Serbian
standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian language used by Serbs
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Latvian
Baltic language, official in Latvia and the European Union
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Thai
Tai language
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Slovene
South Slavic language spoken primarily in Slovenia
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Vietnamese
Austroasiatic language originating in Vietnam
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Occitan
Romance language of Western Europe
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Welsh
Brittonic language spoken natively in Wales
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Kazakh
Turkic language in Central Asia, state language of Kazakhstan
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Malay
Austronesian macrolanguage, basis for Malaysian Malay and Indonesian
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Yiddish
thumb|The opening page of the 1828 Yiddish-written Jewish holiday of Purim play Esther, oder die belohnte Tugend from [[Fürth (by Nürnberg), Bavaria]]
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Macedonian
South Slavic language mostly spoken in North Macedonia
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Kurdish
language of Kurds