Dutch language is mainly used in Holland and Belgium, but also in some former and present Dutch colonies. The Dutch dialects spoken in Belgium are collectively known as Flemish. Dutch is a West Germanic language.
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Like Finnish and Estonian, it belongs to the Uralic language family.
Japanese has no genetic relationship with Chinese, but it makes extensive use of Chinese characters, or kanji, in its writing system, and a large portion of its vocabulary is borrowed from Chinese.
Of the five main Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian), Portuguese is the second most widely spoken after Spanish.
Czech is one of the oldest literary languages in Europe, and together with Polish and Slovak, it belongs to a group of West Slavic languages.
Journal, lead, role, file, reader, robot, gun, watch, gas are just some of the words taken from Czech and are now used in Serbian. Czech is officially a minority language in Serbia.
Most of the words in Serbian are of Slavic origin. Still, there are many loanwords from different languages (Turkish, German, Italian, Greek, Hungarian…).
It is also a native language for over 300 million people living in the area between Morocco in the West and Iraq in the East.
In the past, Russian language used to be a mandatory subject in Serbian schools, nowadays it represents a privilege and advantage in one’s CV.
It is the official language of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC, also known as Taiwan), as well as one of four official languages of Singapore. It is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.
Greek roots are often used to coin new words for other languages; Greek and Latin are the predominant sources of international scientific vocabulary.
