The Languages of the World

14 million 5th 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 dialect Dravidian Dravidian languages Dutch east eastern English words Eskimo family of languages Finnish Finno-Ugric languages Fulani Gaelic German Greek 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 million speakers modern Mon-Khmer language Mongolian mother tongue Munda languages national language northern 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 Translation Turkic language Uigur Urdu vowel western widely spoken written Yiddish Zaïre