Languages in European Competitions
I define LANGUAGE as a
linguistic variety having a unitary and well-fixed grammatical system such
as it allows intercommunication among a social group of speakers at a moment
in History; namely, I agree with the most extended linguistic trend,
"clumping" in nature, that—for the sake of an orderly classification—aim
at grouping languages in families with common features, each subdivided
in languages proper and dialects, irrespective of their socio-political
history (although here "dialect" should not be considered as a "minor language,"
contrary to popular opinion). According to this criterion, I distinguish
the following 42 languages in the listed Web sites of European teams
(together with identifying icons, which for the sake of simplicity I assign
to the flag of the most representative country where that language is spoken*):
*Although
it might be shocking (to say the least) for, let's say, a Belgian seeing
the flag from The Netherlands in his country's page, it must be understood
that this is just a symbol of the language that is common to some countries,
not the national flag in itself. The same applies to Austrians, Swiss, Bosnians,
Croats... I apologize if they feel upset about this, but there aren't yet
flags for individual languages.
Albanian [gjuha shqipe]
Armenian [հայերեն]
Azerbaijani
[azərbaycanca]
Basque
[euskera]
Bulgarian [бьлгарски]
Catalan (Catalan
proper, Valencian and Balearic) [català]
Chinese [中文]
Czech [český]
Danish [dansk]
Dutch (Dutch
proper and Flemish) [nederlands]
English
Esperanto
Estonian [eesti
keel]
Faroese [føroysk]
Finnish [suomi]
French [français]
Georgian [ქართული]
German [Deutsch]
Greek [ελληνική
/ ρωμαίικα]
Hebrew [תירבע]
Hungarian [magyar]
Icelandic [íslenska]
Italian [italiano]
Japanese [日本語]
Kazakh [қазақша]
Latvian [latviešu
valoda]
Lithuanian [lietuviškai]
Luxembourgian
[Lëtzebuergesch]
Macedonian [македонски]
Norwegian [norsk]
Polish [polski]
Portuguese [português]
Romanian [româneşte]
Russian
[русский]
Serbo-Croatian
(Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian) [srpski-hrvatski]
Slovak [slovenčina]
Slovenian [slovenščina]
Spanish [español]
Swedish [svenska]
Turkish [türkçe]
Ukrainian [украiнсько]
Welsh
[cymraeg]
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