This area of the site will be ded­i­cated for audio and video por­tions on for­eign languages.

We plan to add lan­guages slowly and care­fully start­ing with the most com­mon phrases and lan­guages then branch­ing out.

If you’d like to help please email us at edi­tor at mytrav­el­bug dot org

Lin­guis­tic Families

Romance Lan­guages

• derived from Old Latin
• spo­ken in Europe
• Eng­lish, Span­ish, French, Ital­ian, Por­tuguese, Roman­ian, Latin, German

Slavic Lan­guages

• spo­ken in Easter Europe
• 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 the 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 (Pacific islands)
• Maori, Mala­gasy, Tahit­ian, Samoan, Ton­gan, Hawaiian
• Fijian, although tech­ni­cally Melane­sian, is also very similar.

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