Foreign Languages

Patricia P. (United States of America)
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
    an ancient language of India
  5. Swahili
    the most widely spoken Bantu languages
  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
    a Romance language spoken in eastern Spain
  8. Farsi
    the language of Persia (Iran) in any of its ancient forms
Created on Thu Jun 18 08:20:33 EDT 2009 (updated Thu Jul 16 09:47:37 EDT 2009)

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