foreign language

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɔːɹɪn lɛŋɡwɪd͡ʒ/

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Noun

foreign language (plural foreign languages)

1. A language that is not widely or officially spoken in a particular place.

   Irish courts will hear cases in English or Gaelic, but speakers of foreign languages must find an interpreter.

3. A language that is not one's native tongue.

   The children struggled in their Welsh lessons because they didn't have any experience of foreign languages.

Translations

any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place

• Albanian: gjuhë e huaj f
• Arabic: لُغَة أَجْنَبِيَّة f (luḡa ʔajnabiyya)
• Armenian: օտար լեզու (hy) (ōtar lezu)
• Azerbaijani: xarici dil
• Basque: erdara (eu), erdera (eu)
• Belarusian: заме́жная мо́ва f (zamjéžnaja móva)
• Bulgarian: чужд ези́к m (čužd ezík)
• Burmese: ဘာသာခြား (my) (bhasahkra:), ဘာသန္တရ (my) (bhasanta.ra.)
• Catalan: llengua estrangera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 外語 / 外语 (ngoi⁶ jyu⁵), 外國語 / 外国语 (ngoi⁶ gwok³ jyu⁵), 番話 / 番话 (faan¹ waa^6-2)

  Dungan: вэйү (veyü)

  Hakka: 番話 / 番话 (fan¹ fa⁴)

  Hokkien: 外語 / 外语 (gōa-gú / gōa-gí)

  Mandarin: 外語 / 外语 (zh) (wàiyǔ), 外國語 / 外国语 (zh) (wàiguóyǔ), 外文 (zh) (wàiwén) (in written form)

  Teochew: 番話 / 番话 (huang¹ uê⁷), 番话 (huang¹ uê⁷)

• Crimean Tatar: ecnebiy til
• Czech: cizí jazyk m
• Danish: fremmedsprog n
• Dutch: vreemde taal c
• Esperanto: fremda lingvo
• Estonian: võõrkeel
• Finnish: vieras kieli
• French: langue étrangère (fr) f
• Galician: lingua estranxeira f
• Georgian: უცხო ენა (ucxo ena)
• German: Fremdsprache (de) f
• Hebrew: שָׂפָה זָרָה f (safá zará), לַעַז (he) m (lá'az)
• Hindi: विदेशी भाषा f (videśī bhāṣā)
• Hungarian: idegen nyelv (hu)
• Icelandic: útlenska f
• Indonesian: bahasa asing (id)
• Irish: teanga iasachta f
• Italian: lingua straniera
• Japanese: 外国語 (ja) (がいこくご, gaikokugo)
• Kazakh: шет тілі (šet tili)
• Khmer: ភាសាបរទេស (phiəsaa bɑɑrĕəʼteih)
• Korean: 외국어(外國語) (ko) (oegugeo), 외어(外語) (oeeo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: zimanê biyanî (ku), zimanê ejnebî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: чет тили (cet tili), чет элдик тили (cet eldik tili)
• Lao: ພາສາຕ່າງປະເທດ (phā sā tāng pa thēt)
• Latvian: svešvaloda f
• Lithuanian: užsienio kalba f
• Luxembourgish: Friemsprooch f
• Macedonian: странски јазик m (stranski jazik)
• Malay: bahasa asing (ms)
• Nahuatl: pinotlahtōlli
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fremmedspråk n

• Old English: feorcumen m
• Persian: زبان خارجی (zabân-e xâreji)
• Pirahã: ’apagáiso
• Polish: język obcy (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: idioma estrangeiro m, língua estrangeira (pt) f
• Romanian: limbă străină f
• Russian: иностра́нный язы́к (ru) m (inostránnyj jazýk)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: страни језик m

  Latin: strani jezik m

• Slovak: cudzí jazyk m
• Slovene: tuji jezik m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: cuza rěc f

  Upper Sorbian: cuza rěč f

• Southern Altai: иностранный тил (inostrannïy til)
• Spanish: lengua extranjera f
• Swedish: främmande språk (sv) n
• Tajik: забони хориҷӣ (zabon-i xoriji)
• Tamil: அயல்மொழி (ta) (ayalmoḻi), வேற்றுமொழி (vēṟṟumoḻi)
• Tatar: чит тел (çit tel)
• Thai: ภาษาต่างประเทศ (paa-sǎa-dtàang-bprà-têet)
• Turkish: yabancı dil (tr)
• Turkmen: daşary ýurt dili
• Ukrainian: інозе́мна мо́ва f (inozémna móva)
• Urdu: پَرْدیسی زَبان f (pardesī zubān), غیر مُلْکی زَبان (ġair mulki zubān), بِدیسی زَبان f (bidesī zubān)
• Uyghur: چەت تىلى (chet tili)
• Uzbek: chet dil
• Vietnamese: ngoại ngữ (vi)
• Volapük: foginänapük
• Yiddish: פֿרעמדע שפּראַך f (fremde shprakh)
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

See also

• second language
• foreign country