English is a West Germanic language that evolved in England. It is the third most widespread mother tongue in the world.
English is now spoken in the following countries:
German is a West Germanic language spoken by approximately 200 million people worldwide. German is the (or an) official language of the following countries:
French is a Romance language spoken mainly in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Canada, as well as many countries in Africa.
Italian is a Romance language spoken by about 70 million native speakers living predominantly in Italy. Italian is the official language of Italy, San Marino and the Swiss cantons of Ticino and Graubünden. It is also the second official language of the Vatican (after Latin) and is spoken in some parts of Slovenia and Croatia, where Italian minorities are found.
Spanish (or Castilian), a Romance language, is one of the most widespread languages in the world. It is the official language of Spain, most countries in South and Central America, and Equatorial Guinea. Spanish is also very prevalent in the United States, the Philippines and many other countries. Native Spanish speakers number some 400 million.
The most common Slavic language. As both the official language and the language of communication in Czarist Russia, Russian spread over a vast area of eastern Europe and northern Asia. Significant Russian-speaking minorities live in many countries which gained independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union and where the majority speak a different language. Russian is an official language of the following countries: Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan.
Polish (in Polish “język polski” or “polszczyzna”) is a West Slavic language, in the same group as Czech, Slovak and the Sorbian languages. Therefore, it belongs to the Slavic branch of Indo-European languages.
Romanian (“limba română” in Romanian) is a Romance language with about 25 million speakers, mainly in Romania, Vojvodina in Serbia, and Moldova, where, for historical and political reasons, it is known as Moldovan.
Serbian is the language of the Serbian population in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and other countries in Europe, America and Asia. It is essentially an alternative name for the variant of Serbo-Croatian (the official language of Yugoslavia until 1992) used in Serbia.
Standard Serbian is based on the Shtokavian dialect of Serbo-Croatian, which has an Eastern (Ekavian) and Western (Ijekavian) variant.
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