The Burmese language is spoken by approximately 75% of the Burmese population. It belongs to the Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. It is spoken by around 30 million people in Myanmar, where it is both the principal and the official language.
Burmese can be described as monosyllabic because […]

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The Swahili language is of Bantu (African) origin. It does however have borrowed words from other languages such as Arabic. This is partly due to the influence of Arabic visitors as well as the result of the Swahili people’s adoption of Islam and by extension the Quran which is written in Arabic.

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The Manx language is an old Gaelic language of Irish origins. It is spoken on the Isle of Man and is related to the Gaelic dialects of Galloway and Ulster.

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Today, while the Estonian language is spoken a very small group of speakers, all levels of education in Estonia are taught in Estonian, and all modern sciences can be described using Estonian words. Moreover, Estonian is used in the military, in journalism and in aviation circles. It is the sole official language of the Estonian government.

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The Finnish language is spoken in Finland, by approximately ninety percent of the country’s population which stands at approximately six million people. It is also spoken in neighboring Sweden, Norway, Estonia, and Russia. Interestingly, Finland actually has two official languages, Finnish and Swedish, which is also spoken by more than 5% of the country’s population.

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Though the Alsatian language is a German dialect, it is also largely influenced by French. This is because it is spoken mainly in the disputed region of the Alsace-Lorraine which saw France and Germany battle for control of this region many times.

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Like Slovak and Polish, the Czech language belongs to the family of western Slavic languages, though it can also be categorized loosely with other languages such as Russian and Ukrainian.

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The Chichewa language is an African language spoken by more than 9 million people primarily in the countries of Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, and also in Botswana and Zimbabwe. It is one of more than 500 languages that make up the family of languages known as Bantu, which are spoken in sub-Saharan Africa.

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