Austria

Austria• The official language in Austria is German. Regionally people also

speak Slovene, Croatian and Hungarian.

Belgium• The official languages in Belgium are Dutch(also called Flemish),

French(also called Waloon) and German.

Bulgaria• The official language in Bulgaria is Bulgarian. Bulgarian is an Indo-

European language and a member of the Southern branch of the Slavic language family, like Slovene and Serbo-Croatian.

Croatia• The official language in Croatia is Croatian. It is a standardized variety

of the Serbo-Croatian language. Croatian is written in Gaj’s Latin alphabet.

Cyprus• The official languages in Cyprus are Greek and Turkish. Turkish is the

most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with over 63 million native speakers. Seakers are located predominantly in Turkey, with smaller groeps in Germany, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Greece and other parts of Eastern europe, Caucasus and Central Asia.

Czech Republic• The official language in Czech Republic is Czech, Czech is a West Slavic

language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the mahority language in the Czech Republik and spoken by Czechs worldwide.

Denmark• The official language in Denmark is Danish. Regionally people also

speak Faroese, Greenlandic and German. Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, srincipally in Denmark and in the region of Southern Schleswig in northern Germany, where it holds a minority language satus.

Estonia• The official language in Estonia is Estonian, Regionally people also

speak Võro and Setu. Estonian is the official language of Estonia, spoken natively by about 1.1 million people in Estonia and tens of thousands in various migrant cmmunities. It belongs to the Finnic branch og the Uralic language family.

Finland• The official languages in Finland are Finnish and Swedish. Regionally

people also speak Sami. Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population of Finland and by ethnic fins outside Finland. Finnish is the eponymous member of the Finnic language family. It modifies and inflects nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs, depending on their roles in the sentence

France• The official language in France is French. French is a Romanic

language, belongin to the Indo-European family thai is an official language in 29 countries, most of which form the community of French-speaking countries.

Germany• The official language in Germany is German. German is a West

Germanic language and derives most of its vocabulary from the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family.

Greece• The official language in Greece is Greek. Greek is an independent

branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, western Asia Minor, Greece, The Aegean Islands, and Cyprus it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records.

Hungary• The official language in Hungary is Hungarian. Outsid Hungary it is

also spoken by communities of hungarian people in neighboring contries, especially in Romania, Slovakia, Serbia and Ukraine/and by Hungarian diaspora around the world.

Ireland• The official languages of Ireland are Irish and English. Irish, or Gaelic is

a Goidelic language of the Indo-European languages family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is spoken as a first language by a small minority of Irish people, and as a second language by a rether large group. Irish enjoys constitutional status as the national and first official language of the Republic of Ireland. It is also a minority language in Northern Ireland

Italy• The official language of Italy is Italian. Italian is a Romanic language

spoken in Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, and Vatican City and as a second language in Malta, Slovenia and Croatia. Italian is descended from Latin. Unlike most other Romanic languages, Italian retains Latin’s contrast between short and long consonants. As in most Romanisg languages, stress is distinctive. Amongthe Romanic languages, Italian is the closest to Latin in terms of vocabulary.

Latvia• The official language of Lativa is Latvian. Latvian is the official state

language of Latvia. It is also sometimes referred to as Lettish. There are about 1.2 million native Latvian speakers in Latvia and 100 thousand abroad. Altogether, 1.9 million, or 79% of the population of Latvia, speak Latvian. Of those, 1.2 million use it as their primary language at home. The use of the Latvian language in various areas of social life in Latvia is increasing.Latvian is a Baltic language and is most closely related to Lithuanian, although the two are not mutually intelligible. In addition there is some disagreement whether Latgalian and New Curonian, which are mutually intelligible with Latvian, should be considered varieties or separate languages.

Lithuania• The official language of Lithuania is Lithuanian. Lithuanian is the

official state language of Lithuania and is recognized as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 3.2 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 200,000 abroad. Lithuanian is a Baltic language, closely related to Latvian, although they are not mutually intelligible. It is written in a Latin alphabet. The Lithuanian language is often said to be the most conservative living Indo-European language, retaining many features of Proto-Indo-European now lost in other Indo-European languages.

Luxembourg• The official languages of Luxembourg are Luxembourgish, English and

German. Luxembourgish is a Moselle Franconian laguage that is spoken mainly in Luxembourg. About 400.000 people worldwide speak Luxemboergish. Luxembourgish belong to the West Central German group of High German languages.

Malta• The official languages of Malta are Maltese and English. Maltese is the

national language of Malta and a co-official language of the country alongside English, while also serving as an official language of the European Union, the only semitic language so distinguished. Maltese is a descended from Siculo-arabic ( the Arabic dialect that developed in Sicily and later in Malta, between the end of the ninth century and the end of the twelfth century). About half of the vocabulary is borrowed from Italian and Sicillian. English words make up between 6 and 20 procent of the Maltese vocabulary, according to different estimates. It is the only Semitic language written in the Latin script in its standard form.

The Netherlands• The official language of the Netherlands is Dutch. Regionally people also speak Frisian,

Limburgish, Dutch Low Saxon, English and Papiamento. Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of most of the population of the Netherlands, and about sixty percent of the populations of Belgium and Surinam , the three member states of the Dutch language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second language for another 5 million people. Dutch also holds official status in the Caribbean island nations of Aruba, Curacao, and Sint-Maarten, while Dutch or dialects assigned to it continue to be spoken, in parts of France and Germany, and to a lesser extent, in Indonesia, and up to half a million native Dutch speakers may be living in the United States, Canada, and Australia. The Cape Dutch dialect of Southern Africa have been standardized into Afrikaans a partially mutually intelligible daughter language which today is spoken by estimated total of 15 to 23 million people in South Africa and Namibia.

Poland• The official language of Poland is Polish. Polish is a language of the

Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland (being that country's official language) and by Polish minorities in other countries. Its written standard is the Polish alphabet, which has several additions to the letters of the basic Latin script. Despite the pressure of non-Polish administrations in Poland (during the 19th and early 20th centuries) resulting from Partitions of Poland, who often attempted to suppress the Polish language, a rich literature has developed over the centuries, and the language is currently the largest, in terms of speakers, of the West Slavic group. It is also the second most widely spoken Slavic language, after Russian and ahead of Ukrainian.

Portugal• The official language of Portugal is Portugese. Regionally people also

speak Mirandese. Portuguese is a Romantic language and the sole official language of Portugal, Brasil, Mozambique, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and Sao Tomé and Príncipe. It also has co-official language status in Macau (China), Equatorial Guina and East Timor. As the result of expansion during colonial times, Portuguese speakers are also found in Goa, Daman and Diu in India, in Batticaloa on the east coast of Sri Lanka, and in Malacca in Malaysia.

Romania• The official language of Romania is Romanian. Romanian is a

Romantic language spoken by around 24 million people as a native language, primarily in Romania and Moldova, and by another 4 million people as a second language. It has official status in Romania, the Republic of Moldova, the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in Serbia, and in the autonomous Mount Athos in Greece. Romanian speakers are scattered across many other countries, notably Australia, Italy, Spain, Ukraine, Bulgaria, the United States, Canada, Argentina, Israel, Russia, Portugal, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.

Slovakia• The official language of Slovakia is Slovak. Slovak is an Indo-European

language that belongs to the West Slavic languages (together with Czech, Polish, Silesian, Kashubian, and Sorbian). Slovak is the official language of Slovakia where it is spoken by approximately 4.6 million people (2001). Slovak speakers are also found in the United States, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Ireland, Romania, Poland, Canada, Hungary, Croatia, the United Kingdom, Australia, Austria, and Ukraine.

Slovenia• The official language of Slovenia is Slovene. Slovene or Slovenian

belongs to the group of South Slavic languages. It is spoken by approximately 2.5 million speakers worldwide, the majority of whom live in Slovenia. It is the first language of about 1.85 million people and is one of the 24 official and working languages of the European languages of the European Union. Slovene is know as the most diverse Slavic language in terms of dialect.

Spain• The official language of Spain is Spanish. Regionally, people also speak

Basque, Catalan, Galician and Occitan. Spanish , also called Castilian , is a Romantic Language that originated in Castile, a region of Spain. Approximately 406 million people speak Spanish as a native language, making it second only to Mandarin in terms of its number of native speakers worldwide. It also has 60 million speakers as a second language, and 20 million students as a foreign language. Spanish is one of the six official languages of the United Nations, and is used as an official language by the European Union and Mercosur

Sweden• The official language of Sweden is Swedish. Swedish is a North

Germanic language, spoken by approximately 8.7 million people worldwide, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, where it has equal legal standing with Finnish. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish. Along with the other North Germanic languages, Swedish is a descendant of Old Norse, the common language of the Germanic peoples living in Scandinavia during the Viking Era. It is currently the largest of the North Germanic languages by numbers of speakers.

United Kingdom• The official language of the United Kongdom is English. Regionally,

people also speak Scots, Ulster-Scots, Welsh, cornish, Irish and Scottish Gaelic. English is a West Germanic language that was first Ispoken in early medievel England and is now a global lingua franca. It is spoken as the first language of the majority of several sovereign states, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and a number of Caribbean nations. It is the thirs most common native language, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish