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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