Phrases in individual languages

Collections of useful phrases in over 140 different languages, with transliteration of non-Latin alphabets, quite a few recordings and plenty of links.

  1. Afrikaans | Albanian | Aleut | Alsatian | Amharic | Arabic (Egyptian) | Arabic (Modern Standard) | Arabic (Moroccan) | Armenian | Assamese | Azerbaijani |
  2. Basque | Belarusian | Bengali | Bhojpuri | Bosnian | Breton | Bulgarian | Burmese |
  3. Cantonese | Catalan | Cebuano | Chabacano | Chamorro | Chechen | Cherokee | Chinese (Mandarin) | Cornish | Corsican | Croatian | Czech |
  4. Danish | Dutch |
  5. Estonian | Ewe |
  6. Faroese | Fijian | Finnish | French | Friulian | Frisian (West) |
  7. Galician | Gascon | Georgian | German | Greek (Modern) | Greek (Ancient) | Greenlandic | Gujarati |
  8. Haitian Creole | Hakka | Hausa | Hawaiian | Hebrew | Hindi | Hungarian |
  9. Iban | Icelandic | Ilocano | Indonesian | Inuktitut | Iñupiaq | Irish (Gaelic) | Italian |
  10. Japanese | Javanese | Jenesch | Jèrriais |
  11. Kannada | Kazakh | Khmer | Korean | Kurdish |
  12. Lakota | Lao | Latin | Latvian | Lithuanian | Low Saxon | Luxembourgish |
  13. Macedonian | Malay | Malayalam | Maltese | Mam | Mandarin | Manx | Māori | Marathi | Mongolian |
  14. Navajo | Nepali | Nogai | Norwegian |
  15. Occitan | Okinawan | Oriya |
  16. Pashto | Persian (Farsi) | Polish | Portuguese (Brazilian) | Portuguese (European) | Punjabi |
  17. Quechua |
  18. Romanian | Romansh | Russian |
  19. Sakha | Sanskrit | Samoan | Sardinian | Scots | Scottish Gaelic | Serbian | Sesotho | Shanghainese | Shona | Sicilian | Sinhala | Slovak | Slovenian | Somali | Spanish | Sundanese | Swahili | Swedish | Swiss German |
  20. Tagalog | Tahitian | Taiwanese | Tamil | Tatar | Telugu | Tetum | Thai | Tibetan | Tigrinya | Tok Pisin | Tongan | Tsotsil | Tswana | Tumbuka | Turkish | Tuvaluan |
  21. Ukrainian | Urdu | Uzbek
  22. Venetian | Vietnamese
  23. Welsh | Wolof
  24. Xhosa
  25. Yiddish | Yoruba
  26. Zulu

Phrases in constructed languages (conlangs)

Esperanto | Interlingua | Ishirkian | Klingon | Lingua Franca Nova | Lojban | Talossan | Toki Pona | Volapük

Other phrases, idioms, time expressions, proverbs and tonguetwisters

Can you provide phrases in other languages? You might find this template (Excel) helpful.

If you'd like to make any corrections or additions, or can provide audio recordings of any of these phrases, please contact me at: my email address

You can record and edit audio files online with Vacaroo or with Audacity. Other audio editors are available here

People who have contributed to this site

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Links to other collections of phrases

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