A collection of useful phrases suitable for a variety of situations in 408 languages with sound files for some of them.
The main index includes natural languages, and language used or intended to be used as International Auxiliary Languages. Phrases in constructed languages can be found at the bottom of the page.
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Phrases in constructed languages (conlangs)
Abkhaz, Acholi, Adyghe, Afrikaans, Aklan, Albanian (Gheg), Albanian (Tosk), Aleut, Alsatian, Altay, American Norwegian, Amharic, Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Lebanese), Arabic (Modern Standard), Arabic (Moroccan), Aragonese, Aramaic, Aranese, Arapaho, Armenian (Eastern), Armenian (Western), Aromanian, Assamese, Assyrian, Asturian, Atikamekw, Aymara, Azerbaijani
Balinese, Bambara, Bamum, Banjar, Bashkir, Basque, Bassa, Batsbi, Bavarian, Belarusian, Bemba, Bengali, Bete (Daloa), Bhojpuri, Biatah, Bikol, Bislama, Blaan, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese
Cape Verdean Creole, Capiznon. Catalan, Cebuano, Chabacano de Cavite, Chabacano de Zamboanga, Chamorro (Guam dialect), Chamorro (North Marianas dialect), Chechen, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chichewa, Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (Hakka), Chinese (Mandarin), Chinese (Shanghainese), Chinese (Taiwanese), Chinese (Teochew), Chipewyan, Choctaw, Chokwe, Chuukese, Chuvash , Cimbrian, Comanche, Cornish, Corsican, Cree (Plains), Croatian, Cumbric, Cuyonon, Czech
Dangme, Danish, Dari, Dholuo, Dogri, Duala, Dusun (Central), Dutch, Dzongkha
Efik, Elfdalian, English (British), Erzya, Esperanto, Estonian, Ewe, Extremaduran
Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, Flemish (West), Folkspraak, French, Frisian (North - Bökingharde), Frisian (North - Sylt), Frisian (Saterland), Frisian (West), Friulian, Fula
Galician, Galo, Gallo, Garhwali, Garifuna, Gascon, Georgian, German, Gothic, Greek (Ancient), Greek (Modern), Greenlandic, Guaraní, Guernésiais, Gujarati
Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Herero, Hiligaynon, Hill Miri, Hindi, Hmong (White), Hungarian
Iban, Ibinda. Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interlingua, Inuktitut, Iñupiaq, Irish (Gaelic), Italian
Kabiye, Kabyle, Kadazan (Coastal), Kalmyk, Kam, Kannada, Kaqchikel, Karuk, Kashmiri, Kashubian, Kazakh, Khmer, Khoekhoe (Nama), Kichwa, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kokborok, Korean, Kumyk, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kurdish (Sorani), Kven, Kyrgyz
Ladino, Lakota (Sioux), Lao, Latin, Latvian, Laz, Lezgi, Limburgish, Lingala, Lingua Franca Nova, Lithuanian, Livonian, Livvi-Karelian, Loma, Low Saxon, Lozi, Luganda, Luxembourgish
Macedonian, Magahi, Maithili, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maldivian, Maltese, Mam, Manipuri, Manx, Māori, Marathi, Marshallese, Mauritian Creole, Maya (Yucatec), Mazandarani, Míkmaq, Mini, Mirandese, Mising, Moksha, Monégasque, Mongolian, Mossi, Mozarabic Muscogee (Creek-Seminole),
Nahuatl, Navajo, Ndebele (Northern - South Africa), Ndebele (Northern - Zimbabwe), Ndebele (Southern), Neolatin, Nepali, Newar, Ngoni, Niuean, Nkore, Nogai, Norfuk, Northern Sotho, Norwegian
Occitan, Odia (Oriya), Ojibwe, Okinawan, Old East Slavic, Old English, Omaha, Oʼodham, Oromo, Oshiwambo, Ossetian
Palauan, Papiamento, Pashto, Pennsylvania German/Dutch, Persian (Farsi), Picard, Pohnpeian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), Punjabi
Rapa Nui, Réunion Creole, Romani, Romanian, Romanian Tatar, Romansh, Russian, Rusyn
Samala, Sámi (Lule), Sámi (Northern), Sámi (Southern), Samoan, Samogitian, Sanskrit, Sardinian (Campidanese), Sardinian (Logodorese), Sauk, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Serrano, Sesotho, Shona, Sicilian, Sierra Leone Creole, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sorbian (Lower), Sorbian (Upper), Spanish, Stellingwarfs, Sundanese, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Swiss German (Basel dialect), Swiss German (Chur dialect), Swiss German (Lucerne dialect), Sylheti
Tabassaran, Tagalog, Tahitian, Taíno-Quisqueyanaíqui, Tajik, Tamasheq, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Tem, Tetum, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Tiv, Tokelauan, Tok Pisin, Tongan, Tsez, Tsonga, Tsotsil, Tswana, Tugen, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvaluan, Tuvan, Twi
Vai, Venda, Venetian, Veps, Värmlandic, Vietnamese, Volapük, Võro
Walloon, Wayuu, Welsh, Welsh (Gwentian), West Jutlandic, Westrobothnian, Wolof, Wymsorys
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