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LANGUAGES: click on links for more!	COUNTRY/IES SPOKEN IN: * much of this information provided by Wikipedia.org						Reader reccommended:
AFRIKAANS	South Africa- Afrikaans is a derivative of Dutch and is mostly spoken by white descendants of Dutch colonists.
ALBANIAN	Albania
ARABIC	Throughout the middle east
ASTURIAN	Asturia
AYMARA	Bolivia, Peru, also Chile and Argentina. Aymara is an Andean language
AZERBAIJANI	Azerbaijan
BASQUE	Basque region in Northern Spain and Southwestern France.
BELORUSSIAN	Belorus- former member of the Soviet Union, very similar to Russian
BEMBA	Zambia, also known as Chibemba and Ichibemba, a Bantu language
BENGALI	India, Bangladesh. It's second to Hindi as spoken in India. Almost 200 million people speak Bengali, making it the 4th or 5th most widely used language.
BLACKFOOT	Spoken by the native Americans tribes of the Northwestern Plains, stretching from Montana along the Canadian border.
BRETON	Brittany- the Celtic region of France. One of the Celtic languages still spoken in Western Europe along with Welsh, Irish, Cornish & Scottish.
BULGARIAN	Bulgaria
CATALAN	Spain
CEBUANO	Philippines, also known as Sugbuanon. The name derives from the island of Cebu.
CHINESE	Hong Kong- Mandarin Chinese China, Taiwan- Cantonese Chinese
CORNISH	Cornwall, another Celtic language
CROATIAN	Croatia
CZECH	Czech Republic- formerly Czechoslovakia
DANISH	Denmark
DUTCH	The Netherlands
ENGLISH	England, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Uganda, South Africa, Ireland, Scotland
ESPERANTO	Worldwide, a made up language in an attempt to create an international standard language. The name derives from D-ro Esperanto (Dr. Hopeful)
ESTONIAN	Estonia
ETHIOPIAN	Ethiopia
FAROESE	Faroe Islands, also in Denmark and Iceland to lesser degree
FARSI	Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan. The language of Persia.
FINNISH	Finland
FLEMISH	Belgium, the Northern part which speaks Dutch/Flemish. Flemish differs from Dutch in pronunciation and a few words. Flemish is also an adjective to describe the people from this region.
FRENCH	France, Belgium, Cameroon, Madagascar,Quebec province of Canada, Canadian French
FRISIAN	Netherlands and Germany, the language of the North Sea
GALICIAN	Spain- Portuguese dialect spoken in the Northwest of Spain.
GERMAN	Germany, Austria, Belgium
GREEK	Greece, Cyprus
GUARANI	Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay. Guarani is the native language of Paraguay.
HAITIAN CREOLE	Haiti creole is a derivative of French. A form of Creole is also spoken in New Orleans, Louisiana (USA) which was a French colony.
HAWAIIAN	Hawaii
HEBREW	Israel
HINDI	India, and wherever Indian people have settled.
HUNGARIAN	Hungary
ICELANDIC	Iceland, a derivative of Old Norse as Iceland was settled by the Norsemen.
INDONESIAN	Indonesia
INUKTITUT	Alaska, Canada, Greenland. The language of the Inuit tribe
IRISH	Ireland
ITALIAN	Italy
JAPANESE	Japan
KONGO	Angola, Republic of Congo. The language of the former Kongo Empire
KOREAN	North Korea, South Korea
LATIN	Vatican City, Catholic mass
LATVIAN	Latvia
LITHUANIAN	Lithuania
LUGANDA	Uganda, a Bantu classified language
LUXEMBOURGISH	Luxembourg, a dialect of German
MACEDONIAN	Macedonia, slavic language similar to Bulgarian and old Serbian
MALAGASY	Madagascar, a mix of Polynesian language. There are 18 dialects of Malagasy but Medina is the official Malagasy dialect
MALAY	Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore. Very similar to Indonesian.
MALTESE	Malta, a combination of Arabic
MAORI	New Zealand, language of the native Maori people
MAYA	Mexcio and Central America. The language of the Mayan people of southern Mexico and northern Central America (Guatemala, Belize, western Honduras, and El Salvador)
MOHAWK	Mohawk tribe of New York State (USA)
NAHUATL	Mexico, the language of the Aztecs and official language of former Mesoamerica
NORWEGIAN	Norway
PAPAGO	Arizona State (USA). The language of the tribe of Tohono O'odham, a Native American tribe formerly known as the Papago who reside primarily in the Sonoran Desert.
PIDGIN ENGLISH	Nigeria
POLISH	Poland
PORTUGUESE:	Portugal, Brazil
PROVENCAL	France, Piedmont region of Italy
QUECHUA	Columbia, Chile, Ecuador. The official language of the Incan Empire, it's widely spoken in South America.
ROMANIAN	Romania
ROMANSCH	Switzerland, believed to be a derivative of 'vulgar Latin'.
ROMANY
RUANDA
RUSSIAN	Russian
SAMOAN	Samoa
SCOTTISH GAELIC	Scotland, Hebrides Islands
SEPEDI
SERBIAN	Serbia
SHONA
SICILIAN	Sicily, Italy
SLOVAK	Slovakia, formerly Czechoslovakia. Also spoken by Slavic people in Hungary, Poland, Romania, former Yugoslavia.
SLOVENE	Slovenia, similar to Croatian and Serbian. Also spoken by Slavic people in Hungary, Italy and Austria.
SOMALI	Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia. Used to use Arabic and Ethiopian alphabet until 1972.
SORBIAN
SOTHO	Lestho, a Bantu language of Africa
SPANISH	Spain, Mexico, Central and South America
SWAHILI
SWAZI	Swaziland
SWEDISH	Sweden
TAGALOG	Philippines
TAHITIAN	Tahiti
THAI	Thailand
TONGAN	Tonga
TSWANA	Botswana, a Bantu language
TURKISH	Turkey, Cyprus
UKRANIAN	Ukraine
URDU
VIETNAMESE	Vietnam
WELSH	Wales
WOLOF	Senegal
XHOSA	South Africa
YIDDISH	Germany, spoken by Ashkenazic Jews, also called Jewish German
YORUBA	Nigeria
ZULU	South Africa
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CLASSIFICATIONS OF LANGUAGES: As you study languages, you may notice that many languages seem to be similar. In fact there are several classifications within foreign languages that show common root languages. These are just a few- for more information visit Wikipedia.com and type "language families".
Romance Languages - derived from Old Latin -spoken in Europe							English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Latin, German
Slavic Languages -spoken in Eastern Europe by Slavic peoples							East Slavic;Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian. West Slavic; Czech and Slovak Upper and Lower Sorbian in Germany, Lekhitic languages; Polish, Pomeranian/Kashubian and Polabian. South Slavic; Slovenian, Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian, Bulgarian and Macedonian.
Bantu Languages - derived from Bantu empire -spoken in Central and South African nations							Luganda, Sotho, Bemba (also known as Chibemba and Ichibemba), Swahili, Lingala, Gikuyu Bukusu, Lusoga Kikongo, Chichewa Kinyarwanda, Kirundi Shona, Ndebele (Sindebele), Tswana (Setswana), Sesotho Zulu (isiZulu), Xhosa Sepedi, Swazi Ngumba (Cameroon) Kako (Cameroon)
Polynesian Languages -spoken in Polynesia							Maori, Malagasy, Tahitian, Samoan, Tongan, Hawaiian Fijian, although Melanesian, is also very similar.