The Languages of the World

7th century A.S.S.R. capital Africa alphabet contains Altaic Bantu languages border branch Celtic languages central century A.D. China Chinese closely related coast consonants Cyrillic alphabet dialects Dravidian Dravidian languages Dutch east eastern English words Eskimo family of languages Finnish Finno-Ugric languages Gaelic German Greek Guinea Hindi Hungarian Icelandic important language Indian languages Indo-European family Indo-European languages Indonesian Iranian languages Islands Kabardian known language spoken languages are spoken languages include Latin linguistic Lithuanian live mainly major languages Malay Malayo-Polynesian Mon-Khmer language Mongolian mother tongue mountain Munda languages national language Norse northern Norwegian number of speakers official language origin Pakistan percent Persian Pidgin population Portuguese pronounced province Quechua region Republic River Roman Russian Sanskrit script Semitic Serbian Siberia Slavic languages southern Soviet Union Spanish speak spoken principally Swahili syllable Tamil Turkic language Uigur Urdu vowel western widely spoken written Yiddish Zaïre به