How to say “language” in 34 different languages
Every one of these is a word that turns up in ordinary speech, not a dictionary curiosity — the number beside it is where it ranks in that language.
- لغة/lu.ɣa/ Arabic
- भाषा/bʱɑː.ʂɑː/ Hindi
- ენა[e̞nä] Georgian
- ভাষা/bʱaʃa/ Bengali
- ഭാഷ/b(ʱ)aːʂɐ/ Malayalam
- భాషలు/ˈbʰaːʂalu/ Telugu
“language” in German: sprache · Arabic: لغة · Hindi: भाषा · Turkish: dile
It is commonest in Icelandic, where mál is the 222nd most used word.
Language in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans taal/tɑːl/ #767
- Albanian afërt/afəɾt/ a related person, language, etc #1,241
- Arabic لغة/lu.ɣa/ #1,605
- Basque hizkuntza/is̻kunt͡s̻a/ #401
- Bengali ভাষা/bʱaʃa/ #623
- Chinese 英文/iŋ⁵⁵ wən³⁵/ English language #1,222
- Danish mål/mɔːl/ #920
- Dutch taal/taːl/ #1,952
- English word/wɜɹd/ The smallest unit of language that has a… #429
- Esperanto lingvo/ˈlinɡvo/ #709
- Estonian keelt/kˈeːlt/ #793
- French anglais/ɑ̃.ɡlɛ/ English language #1,168
- Galician linguaxe/liŋˈɡwaʃe̝/ a language #1,719
- Georgian ენა[e̞nä] #973
- German sprache/ˈʃpʁaːxə/ #1,873
- Greek αγγλικά/ˌaŋɡliˈka/ in English, using the English language #1,606
- Hindi भाषा/bʱɑː.ʂɑː/ language, speech #1,641
- Icelandic mál[ˈmauːl] #222
- Indonesian bahasa/baˈhasa/ #482
- Korean 영어[jʌ̹ŋʌ̹] the English language #1,217
- Latvian valodā/ˈʋaluodaː/ #1,273
- Lithuanian kalba[kɐlˈbɐ] #261
- Malay bahasa[ba.hə.sa] #475
- Malayalam ഭാഷ/b(ʱ)aːʂɐ/ #410
- Norwegian språk/sproːk/ #2,311
- Polish mowy/ˈmɔ.vɘ/ language, speech #1,170
- Portuguese palavra/paˈla.vɾɐ/ unit of language #552
- Russian речь[rʲet͡ɕ] speech, language #914
- Swedish mål/moːl/ language; dialect #962
- Tamil இந்தி/ɪnd̪iː/ Of, or relating to the Hindi language #1,672
- Telugu భాషలు/ˈbʰaːʂalu/ #899
- Turkish dile/diˈle/ #2,029
- Ukrainian мова[ˈmɔʋɐ] #1,419
- Urdu جرمن/d͡ʒəɾ.mən/ the German language, of Germany #479
The speaker reads the word in the voice the LangX app uses for that language — synthesised, not a recording of a native speaker, so treat it as a guide. A row without a button has no reading we are free to use, or none we trust, yet. Voices for Bengali (google (bn_BD), CC BY-SA 4.0) and Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.