Introduction -- Indo-European languages -- Germanic languages -- English -- German -- Dutch -- Danish, Norwegian and Swedish -- Latin and the Italic languages -- Romance languages -- French -- Spanish -- Portuguese -- Italian -- Romanian -- Slavonic languages -- Russian -- Polish -- Czech and Slovak -- Serbo-Croat : Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian -- Greek -- Indo-Aryan languages -- Sanskrit -- Hindi-Urdu -- Bengali -- Iranian languages -- Persian -- Pashto -- Uralic languages -- Hungarian -- Finnish -- Turkish and the Turkic languages -- Afroasiatic languages -- Semitic languages -- Arabic -- Hebrew -- Amharic -- Hausa and the Chadic languages -- Tamil and the Dravidian languages -- Tai languages -- Thai -- Vietnamese -- The Sino-Tibetan languages -- Chinese -- Burmese -- Japanese -- Korean -- Austronesian languages -- Malay-Indonesian -- Javanese -- Tagalog -- Niger-Kordofanian (Niger-Congo) languages -- Yoruba -- Swahili and the Bantu languages.