Languages in europe

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European Union languages


LANGUAGES OF EUROPE


THE IBERIAN PENINSULA The Iberian Peninsula is formed by Portugal, Spain and Andorra.


LANGUAGES IN IBERIAN PENINSULA The official languages in these three states: Portugal: Portuguese Spain: Spanish, Basque, Catalan, Aragonese, Eonavian, Occitan, Asturian Leonese. Andorra: Spanish and Catalan



Historic languages Pre-Roman languages The following languages were spoken in the Iberian Peninsula before the Roman occupation and the spread of the Latin language. ● ●

Aquitanian (probably closely related to or the same as Proto-Basque) Proto-Basque

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Iberian Tartessian Indo-European languages Celtic languages Celtiberian Gallaecian Lusitanian (disputed: either Italic, Celtic, Para-Celtic or other Indo-European)

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Sorothaptic Hellenic Ancient Greek Afro-Asiatic languages Semitic languages Phoenician Punic


Migrant languages


THE TOP 10 MOST ENDANGERED LANGUAGES IN EUROPE 10. CAPPADOCIAN GREEK (Greece, 2800 native speakers) 9. TSAKONIAN (Greece, 200-1000 native speakers)

3. KARAIM (Lithuania, Crimea, Poland, Ukraine, 80 native speakers)

8. WYMYSORYS (Poland, 70 native speakers)

2. CORNISH (Cornwall, UK, 3500 native speakers)

7. PITE SAMI (Sweden, 25-50 native speakers)

1. MANX (Isle of man, UK, 100 native speakers)

6. GOTTSCHEERISH (Slovenia, unknown native speakers)

5.UME SAMI (Sweden, 10-20 native speakers) 4. HÉRTEVIN (Turkey, 1000 native speakers)


EU COUNTRIES LANGUAGES Albania

Belarus

Finland

Albanian (Shqip, Tosk (Toskë) is the

Belarusian, Russian

Finnish (suomi) 93.4%, Swedish

official dialect)

5.9%

Shqip-Gheg dialect (Gegë), Greek,

Belgium

small Sami- and Russian-

Italian

Dutch 60%, French 40%,

speaking minorities

Andorra

German less than 1%

France

Catalan

French (français)

French, Castilian, Portuguese

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Austria

Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian

German, Slovene (official in Carinthia),

Germany German (Deutsch)

Croatian and Hungarian (official in Burgenland)

Gibraltar English Llanito (a mixture of Spanish and English), Spanish


Bulgaria

Denmark

Bulgarian

Danish (dansk)

Greenland

Turkish

Standard German

Greenlandic Inuktitut (Kalaallisut), Danish

Croatia

Estonia

Croatian (hrvatski)

Estonian (eesti keel)

Hungary

Russian, Ukrainian, Finnish

Hungarian (magyar)

Cyprus Greek, Turkish, English

German, Romanian Faroe Islands

Iceland

Faroese, Danish

Icelandic

Czech Republic Czech (cestina)

English, Nordic languages, Greece Greek (ellinikรก, the KoineDemotic version) Turkish (Northern Greece)

German widely spoken.


Ireland

Lithuania

Irish (Gaeilge), English (generally

Malta

Lithuanian (lietuviu kalba)

used),

Maltese (Malti)

Polish, Russian

English

Luxembourg Italy

Moldova

Luxembourgish (LĂŽtzebuergesch,

Italian (italiano)

Moldovan (virtually the same as the

the everyday spoken language),

Romanian language),

French (administrative Latvia

Russian, Gagauz (a Turkish dialect)

language), German

Latvian (latviesu valoda)

Monaco

(administrative language)

French

Lithuanian, Russian

Monegasque, English, Italian,

Liechtenstein

Macedonia, Rep

German

Montenegro

Macedonian 68%, Albanian 25%

Serbo-Croatian (Ijekavian dialect official)


Netherlands

Portugal

Dutch (Nederlands, official language),

Serbia

Portuguese (portuguĂŞs)

Serbian 95%, Albanian 5%

Romania Norway

Slovakia

Romanian (romana)

Norwegian (nynorsk and bokmal)

Slovak (slovensky jazyk)

Hungarian, German

small Sami- and Finnish-speaking

Hungarian

Russian Federation

minorities

Russian

Frisian (official language)

Poland

Spain Spanish (espaĂąol - the Castilian

Polish (polski)

San Marino

Slovenia

version) 74%, Catalan 17%,

Italian

Galician 7%, Basque 2%

Slovenian (slovenski jezik)


Sweden Swedish (svenska) small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities. Switzerland

United Kingdom English Welsh (about 26% of the population of Wales), Scottish form of Gaelic (about 60,000 in Scotland)

German 63.7%, French 19.2%, Italian 7.6%,

Vatican City State

Romansch 0.6%

Latin, Italian French and various other languages.

Turkey Turkish (tßrkçe) Kurdish, Arabic, Armenian, Greek

Ukraine Ukrainian



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