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Foreign Languages 8 words

Foreign languages - common and "not-so-common"

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  1. Carib
    a member of an American Indian peoples of northeastern South America and the Lesser Antilles
  2. Arawak
    a member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America
  3. Tagalog
    a member of a people native to the Philippines chiefly inhabiting central Luzon around and including Manila
  4. Sanskrit
    (Hinduism) an ancient language of India (the language of the Vedas and of Hinduism); an official language of India although it is now used only for religious purposes
  5. Swahili
    the most widely spoken Bantu languages; the official language of Kenya and Tanzania and widely used as a lingua franca in east and central Africa
  6. Urdu
    the official literary language of Pakistan, closely related to Hindi; widely used in India (mostly by Moslems); written in Arabic script
  7. Catalan
    the Romance language spoken in Catalonia in eastern Spain (related to Spanish and Occitan)
  8. Farsi
    the language of Persia (Iran) in any of its ancient forms