Useful foreign phrases
A collection of useful phrases suitable for a variety of situations in many
different languages with sound files for quite a few of them.
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Index of phrases by language family
Afroasiatic,
Altaic,
Austroasiactic,
Austronesian,
Caucasian,
Dravidian,
Eskimo-Aleut,
Finno-Ugric,
Indo-European,
Iroquoian,
Japonic,
Mayan,
Niger-Congo,
Sino-Tibetan,
Siouan,
Tai-Kaidai,
Isolates,
Creoles,
Constructed languages
Afroasiatic languages
- Amharic,
Arabic (Egyptian),
Arabic (Lebanese),
Arabic (Modern Standard),
Arabic (Moroccan),
Hausa,
Hebrew,
Maltese,
Somali
Altaic languages
- Mongolic languages
- Mongolian
- Turkic languages
- Azerbaijani,
Kazakh,
Nogai,
Sakha,
Tatar,
Turkish,
Uzbek
Austroasiatic languages
- Khmer,
Vietnamese,
Austronesian languages
- Cebuano,
Chamorro,
Fijian,
Hawaiian,
Iban,
Iloko,
Indonesian,
Javanese,
Malay,
Māori,
Samoan,
Sundanese,
Tagalog,
Tahitian,
Tetum,
Tuvaluan
Caucasian languages
- North East Caucasian: Chechen
South Caucasian: Georgian
Dravidian languages
- Kannada,
Malayalam,
Tamil,
Telugu
Eskimo-Aleut
- Aleut,
Greenlandic,
Inuktitut,
Iñupiaq
Finno-Ugric languages
- Estonian,
Finnish,
Hungarian,
Võro
Indo-European languages
- Baltic
- Latvian,
Lithuanian
- Celtic
- Breton,
Cornish,
Irish,
Manx,
Scottish Gaelic,
Welsh
- Germanic
- Afrikaans,
Alsatian,
Danish,
Dutch,
Faroese,
Frisian (North),
Frisian (West),
German,
Icelandic,
Low Saxon,
Luxembourgish,
Norwegian,
Scots,
Swedish,
Swiss German,
Yiddish
- Indo-Iranian
- Assamese,
Bengali,
Bhojpuri,
Gujarati,
Hindi,
Kurdish,
Maldivian,
Marathi,
Nepali,
Oryia,
Pashto,
Persian (Farsi),
Punjabi,
Sanskrit,
Sinhala,
Urdu,
Zazaki
- Romance
- Aragonese,
Catalan,
Corsican,
French,
Friulian,
Galician,
Gascon,
Italian,
Jèrriais,
Latin,
Occitan,
Portuguese (Brazlian),
Portuguese (European),
Romanian,
Romansh,
Sardinian,
Sicilian,
Spanish,
Venetian
- Slavic
- Belarusian,
Bosnian,
Bulgarian,
Croatian,
Czech,
Macedonian,
Polish,
Russian,
Serbian,
Slovak,
Slovenian,
Ukrainian
- Other
- Albanian,
Armenian (Eastern & Western),
Greek (Modern),
Greek (Ancient)
Iroquoian languages
- Cherokee
Japonic / Japanese-Ryukyuan languages
- Japanese,
Okinawan
Mayan languages
- Mam,
Tsotsil,
Yucatec Maya
Niger-Congo languages
- Ewe,
Kinyarwanda,
Sesotho,
Shona,
Swahili,
Tswana,
Tumbuka,
Wolof,
Xhosa,
Yorùbá,
Zulu
Sino-Tibetan languages
- Sinitic
- Cantonese,
Hakka,
Mandarin,
Shanghainese,
Taiwanese
- Tibeto-Burman
- Burmese,
Tibetan
Siouan languages
- Lakota
Tai-Kadai languages
- Lao,
Thai
Isolates
- Basque
Pidgins and Creoles
- Chabacano de Zamboanga & Chabacano de Cavite,
Haitian Creole,
Papiamento
Constructed languages
- Esperanto,
Ido,
Interlingua,
Ishirkian,
Kala,
Klingon,
Lingua Franca Nova,
Lojban,
Talossan,
Toki Pona,
Wightian
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Links
Other collections of phrases in various languages
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/other/quickfix/
http://www.smartphrase.com
http://www.single-serving.com
http://www.nypl.org/branch/central/dlc/df/useful.html
http://www.travelphrases.info/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_phrases_in_different_languages
http://wikitravel.org/en/Phrasebook
http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/
http://www.smartphrase.com
http://www.loecsen.com
http://www.linguanaut.com
http://www.languageshome.com
http://www.foreignlanguagephrases.com
http://www.lingo24.com/useful-phrases.html
http://worldphrasebook.net
http://smallmarble.org/
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