Language Summary Sheet (2)

Language      Family           Places spoken as main language of communication                                                       

Japanese
Independent Japan

Lithuanian
Indo-European Lithuania

Malayalam
Dravidian India (Western coast of South India in Kerala)

Nahuatl
Uto-Aztecan Mexico, United States

Navajo
Athapascan New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah

Polish
Indo-European Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, United States, Brazil, Canada, Israel

Portuguese
Indo-European Portugal, Brazil, Portuguese colonies in Africa and in Asia

Quechua
Andean-Equatorial Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador

Russian
Indo-European Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Latvia, and Kyrgyzstan

Spanish
Indo-European Spain, South America, Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Balearic and Canary Islands, and in parts of the United States

Swahili
Niger-Congo East Africa -- Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Zaïre

Swedish
Indo-European Swedish and parts of Finland

Telugu
Dravidian State of Andhra Pradesh, South Eastern India

Turkish
Altaic Turkey and minority groups in Bulgaria, Greece, and Cyprus

Urdu
Indo-European Pakistan and widely spoken in India

Last Updated on 9/28/2002