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French (Canadian)
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Spanish (Latin American)
Portuguese (European)
Portuguese (Brazilian)
Italian
Occitan
Catalan
Sardinian
Romanian

Italic

Latin

Germanic

German
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Dutch
Flemish
Afrikaans
Norwegian (Bokmål)
Norwegian (Nynorsk)
Swedish
Danish
Faroese
Icelandic

Finno-Ugric

Finnish
Estonian
Hungarian

Baltic

Lithuanian
Latvian

Celtic

Gaelic (Scots)
Gaelic (Irish)
Welsh
Breton

Language Isolate

Basque

Slavic

Russian
Ukrainian
Belarusian
Polish
Czech
Slovak
Slovenian
Bosnian
Serbian
Croatian
Bulgarian
Macedonian

Albanian

Albanian

Greek

Greek (Modern)
Greek (Ancient)

Armenian

Armenian

Northeast Caucasian

Chechen

South Caucasian

Georgian

Turkic

Turkish
Azeri
Turkmen
Kazakh
Kirghiz
Uzbek
Uyghur
Bashkir

Indo-Iranian

Persian (Farsi)
Persian (Dari)
Persian (Tajik)
Hindi
Urdu
Nepali (Gurkhali)
Punjabi
Gujarati
Sindhi
Assamese
Bengali
Oriya
Marathi
Sinhala
Bhojpuri
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Kashmiri
Kurdish
Pashto
Sanskrit
Pali

Dravidian

Kannada
Malayalam
Tamil
Telugu

Semitic

Arabic (Standard)
Arabic (Maghrebi)
Arabic (Levantine)
Arabic (Gulf)
Amharic
Tigrinya
Hebrew (Modern)
Hebrew (Classical)
Maltese

Cushitic

Oromo
Somali

Chadic

Hausa

Niger-Congo

Wolof
Fula
Yoruba
Igbo (Ibo)

Bantu

Kituba (Kikongo)
Swahili (Kiswahili)
Ndebele (isiNdebele) (N+S)
Shona (chiShona)
Sotho (Sesotho)
Tswana (Setswana)
Xhosa (isiXhosa)
Zulu (isiZulu)

Mongolic

Mongolian (Khalkha)

Tibeto-Burman

Tibetan
Burmese

Tai-Kadai

Thai
Lao

Austro-Asiatic

Khmer
Vietnamese

Hmong-Mien

Hmong (White + Green)

Austronesian

Malay
Indonesian
Javanese
Sundanese
Madurese
Tagalog
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Ilokano
Hiligaynon
Malagasy
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Kiribati (Gilbertese)
Maori
Hawaiian

Sinitic

Chinese (Mandarin)
Chinese (Cantonese)
Chinese (Shanghainese)
Chinese (Taiwanese)

Japonic

Japanese

Language Isolate

Korean

Eskimo-Aleut

Inupiatun (Alaska)
Inuktitut (Canada)
Kalaallisut (Greenland)

Athabaskan

Navajo

Uto-Aztecan

Nahuatl

Mayan

Maya (Yucatec)

Aymaran

Aymara

Quechuan

Quechua

Tupian

Guaraní

French Creole

Haitian