Here is a summary of words meaning "language."
-- l --
Portuguese: língua (linguagem, fala, idioma)
English: language
Italian: lingua (linguaggio)
French: langue
Spanish: lengua (lenguaje)
Catalan: llengua
Vannetais Breton: langaj
Arabic: لغة [luga(tun)]
Swahili: lugha
Usik: lan
Breton: ar langaj
Esperanto: lingvo
Langue d'Oc: la lengo (often [lìngo])
Hebrew: la'ashon
Wolof: laka
Romanian: limbă
-- b --
Hindi: भाषा [bhāṣā]
Indonesian: bahasa
Malayalam: ഭാഷ [bhaasha]
Malay: bahasa
Telugu: basha
Banyumasan: basa
Sundanese: basa
Javanese: basa [bõsõ]
Balinese: basa [ba:seh]
Panjabi: ਬੋਲੀ
-- p --
Thai : pah sar
Sotho: puo
-- t --
Dutch: taal
West-Frisian: taal
Afrikaans: taal
Cornish: tavas (tongue)
Irish: teanga [tjong-ga]
Donegal Irish: teangaidh
Nahuatl: tlahtōlli [t͡ɬaʰ.ˈtoːl.l]
Mayan: t'aan
-- d --
Turkish: dil
-- s --
German: Sprache
Swedish: språk
Norwegian: språk
Alsatian : d'Sprooch
-- z --
Dari: زبان [zaban]
Farsi: zaban
Urdu: zabaan
-- j --
Macedonian: јазик [jazik]
Albanian: gjuha
-- i/y --
Welsh: iaith
Spanish: idioma
Portuguese: idioma
Kirundi: imvugo
Russian: язык
Polish: język
Bosnian: jezik
Serbian: језик
Slovene: jezik
Cornish: yeth
Chinese: 语言/語言 [yǔ yán]
-- e --
Georgian: ენა [ena]
Bulgarian: език [ezik]
-- k/c --
Scottish Gaelic: cànan
Lithuanian: kalba
Wolof: kalama
Finnish: kieli
Estonian: keel
-- g --
Greek: γλώσσα [glóssa]
Japanese: 言語（げんご）[gengo]
-- n --
Old Tupi: nhe'enga
Vietnamese: ngon ngu
Hungarian: nyelv
-- m --
Lingala: monoko (also mouth)
Ukrainian: мова
Nyandja: mutundu
Chewa: mutundu
Shona: mutauro
-- a --
Kapampangan: amanung sisuan (mother language)
-- o --
Korean: 언어[eon eo]
Zulu: olimi (tongue)
-- w --
Tagalog: wika
-- f --
Portuguese: fala
-- r --
Maori: reo
Bodo: Raao
Shona: rurimi
-- p --
Thai: ภาษา [pha sar]
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