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Japanese (日本語, Nihongo (help·info)) is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is related to the Ryukyuan languages. There may exist relationships with other languages, but they have still...

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Broadcast Genre

x Italian

Field Of Study

Italy

Italian (italiano (help·info), or lingua italiana) is a Romance language spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four official languages. It is also the official language of San...

Broadcast Genre

x Cantonese

Language Dialect

Cantonese, known technically as Yue or Yuet (粵語; Mandarin Yuè Yǔ; Cantonese (Yale) Yuht Yúh, (jyutping) Jyut6 Jyu5), is a primary branch of Chinese. The name "Cantonese" is commonly used in a narrower sense for the Guangzhou dialect, which is the...

x Mandarin

Language Dialect

China

Mandarin (traditional Chinese: 官話; simplified Chinese: 官话; pinyin: Guānhuà; literally "speech of officials" or simplified Chinese: 北方话; traditional Chinese: 北方話; pinyin: Běifānghuà; literally "Northern Dialect(s)"), is a category of related Chinese...

Language in fiction

x Spanish

Field Of Study

Spain

Spanish (español (help·info)) or Castilian (castellano) is an Indo-European, Romance language that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade. It was...

Broadcast Genre

Film festival focus

x Tamil

India

Madurai Tamil

Tamil (தமிழ் tamiḻ; IPA: [t̪əmɨɻ]) is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in India, Sri Lanka and Singapore. Tamil is also spoken by significant minorities in Malaysia,...

Sri Lanka

Madras Tamil

Ceylon Tamil

Jaffna Tamil

Negombo Tamil

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x French

Field Of Study

France

Acadian French

French (français, French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃sɛ]) is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 128 million people as first or second language, and by about an extra 72 million people with limited language skills, with significant speakers...

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African French

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Aostan French

Swiss French

Lao French

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x Russian

Broadcast Genre

Russia

Russian (Russian: русский язык, transliteration: russkiy yazyk, Russian pronunciation: [ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in...

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x Hindi

India

Hindi (Devanāgarī: हिन्दी or हिंदी, IAST: Hindī, IPA: [hɪnd̪iː] (help·info)) is the name given to an Indo-Aryan language, or a dialect continuum of languages, spoken in northern and central India (the "Hindi belt"). Native speakers of Hindi dialects...

x Urdu

Urdu (pronunciation (help·info), اردو, trans. Urdū, historically spelled Ordu) is a Central Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-Iranian branch, belonging to the Indo-European family of languages. It is the official language of Pakistan. Its vocabulary...

x Czech

Czech Republic

Czech (pronounced /ˈʧɛk/; čeština IPA: [ˈʧɛʃcɪna] in Czech) is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. Czech is similar to and mutually...

x Greek language

Broadcast Genre

Greece

Greek (ελληνική γλώσσα, IPA: [e̞liniˈkʲi ˈɣlo̞sa] or simply ελληνικά, [e̞liniˈka] — "Hellenic") is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million, mainly in Greece and Cyprus but also by minority and emigrant communities in numerous other...

Language in fiction

x Afrikaans

South Africa

Afrikaans is an Indo-European language, derived from 17th century Dutch and classified as Low Franconian Germanic, mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia, with smaller numbers of speakers in Botswana, Angola, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Zambia...

x Persian language

Persian (local names: Persian: فارسی IPA: [fɒːrˈsi] (Farsi) or Persian: پارسی [pɒːrˈsi] (Parsi); see Nomenclature), is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, and...

x Xhosa language

South Africa

Xhosa (pronounced [ˈkǁʰoːsa] (Audio (help·info)), isiXhosa) is one of the official languages of South Africa. Xhosa is spoken by approximately 7.9 million people, or about 18% of the South African population. Like most Bantu languages, Xhosa is a...

x Bengali

Bangladesh

Bengali or Bangla (IPA: [ˈbaŋla] (help·info) বাংলা) is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit and Sanskrit languages. Bengali is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which...

x German

Field Of Study

Germany

Swiss German

German (Deutsch, [dɔʏ̯tʃ] (help·info)) is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. German is related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. Around the world, German is spoken by approximately 100 million native...

Swabian

Austro-Bavarian

East Franconian German

Hessian dialect

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x Standard Mandarin

Standard Mandarin or Standard Chinese is the official modern Chinese spoken language used in mainland China and Taiwan, and is one of the four official languages of Singapore. The phonology of Standard Mandarin is based on the Beijing dialect of...

x Portuguese

Broadcast Genre

Portugal

Portuguese (português (help·info) or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and northern Portugal. It is derived from the Latin spoken by the romanized Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula (namely the...

x Polish

Poland

Mazovian

Polish (język polski, polszczyzna), an official language of Poland, has the largest number of speakers of any West Slavic language. Polish is spoken in a uniform manner through most of Poland, and has a regular orthography. The language developed...

Lesser Polish

Greater Polish

Silesian

x Swedish language

Language in fiction

Sweden

Finland-Swedish

Swedish (svenska (help·info)) is a North Germanic language, spoken by more than ten million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the coast and on the Åland islands. It is to a considerable extent mutually...

x Arabic language

Broadcast Genre

Saudi Arabia

Arabic, Algerian Spoken

Arabic (الْعَرَبيّة al-ʿarabiyyah (informally: عَرَبيْ ʿarabī)), in terms of the number of speakers, is the largest living member of the Semitic language family. Classified as Central Semitic, it has its roots in a Proto-Semitic common ancestor. In...

Arabic, Egyptian Spoken

Arabic, Shuwa

Baharna Arabic

Gulf Arabic

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x Kurdish language

The Kurdish language (Kurdish: Kurdî or کوردی) is a term used for the language spoken by Kurds. It is mainly concentrated in the parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. Kurdish belongs to the northwestern sub-group of the Iranian languages, which...

x Serbian language

Serbian (српски језик; srpski jezik) is a South Slavic language, spoken chiefly in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and in the Serbian diaspora. Standard Serbian is based on Shtokavian dialect, like modern Croatian and Bosniak ...

x Montenegrin language

Montenegrin language (Crnogorski jezik, Црногорски језик) is the name given to the Ijekavian-Shtokavian dialect spoken in Montenegro. Some people in Montenegro consider it another name for the same language spoken in Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro and...

x Norwegian language

Norway

Norwegian (norsk) is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language. It is also spoken as a second language among Norwegian-Americans in the USA, especially in the central northern states. Together with...

x Telugu

India

Telugu may refer to:

x Punjabi language

Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ in Gurmukhi script, پنجابی in Shahmukhi script, Pañjābī in transliteration) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by inhabitants of the historical Punjab region (now split between India and Pakistan) and their diasporas. Speakers include...

x Finnish language

Broadcast Genre

Finland

Rauma dialect

Finnish (suomi (help·info), or suomen kieli) is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland (92% as of 2006) and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. It is one of the official languages of Finland and an official minority...

Savo Finnish

Helsinki slang

x Malayalam language

India

Malayalam (മലയാളം malayāḷaṁ) is a Dravidian language used predominantly in the state of Kerala, in southern India. It is one of the 22 official languages of India, and it is used by around 36 million people. Malayalam is also widely used in the...

x Filipino language

Filipino is the national and an official language of the Philippines as designated in the 1987 Philippine Constitution. It is an Austronesian language that is the de facto standardized version of Tagalog. It is the first language of Filipinos living...

x Tagalog language

Tagalog is one of the major languages used

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