Very cool, especially considering how many of them are non-Indo-European!
Of course this is all an exercise in where you draw the line. Here's what I came up with:
English French Spanish Russian German Chinese (Mandarin) Serbo-Croat (I can't count this as three now, can I? :-) Latin Old English (does this count separately?) Esperanto Interlingua Dutch Italian Portuguese Afrikaans Romanian Moldavian (does this count separately?) Japanese Polish Bulgarian Macedonian Yiddish Ukrainian Belarusan Czech Slovak Danish Swedish Norwegian Icelandic Scots (I think of this as a dialect, but then, it's more different from English than Czech is from Slovak, or than the Scandinavian langauges are from each other) Jamaican Creole English Hawai'i Creole English Old Church Slavonic Cantonese Hawai'ian Arabic (I think I remember how to say "The book is on the table". :-) Korean (All I remember is "How are you?")
The first few (through Esperanto) plus Japanese are ones I've actually studied with some degree of formality. The other Romance, Slavic, and Germanic languages are mostly from knowing related languages, plus some amount of casual study. The last four are basically languages in which I happen to know a few words.
(By coincidence, I also ended up with 38, but most of mine are Indo-European, and Western European at that.)
Of course this is all an exercise in where you draw the line. Here's what I came up with:
English
French
Spanish
Russian
German
Chinese (Mandarin)
Serbo-Croat (I can't count this as three now, can I? :-)
Latin
Old English (does this count separately?)
Esperanto
Interlingua
Dutch
Italian
Portuguese
Afrikaans
Romanian
Moldavian (does this count separately?)
Japanese
Polish
Bulgarian
Macedonian
Yiddish
Ukrainian
Belarusan
Czech
Slovak
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Icelandic
Scots (I think of this as a dialect, but then, it's more different from English than Czech is from Slovak, or than the Scandinavian langauges are from each other)
Jamaican Creole English
Hawai'i Creole English
Old Church Slavonic
Cantonese
Hawai'ian
Arabic (I think I remember how to say "The book is on the table". :-)
Korean (All I remember is "How are you?")
The first few (through Esperanto) plus Japanese are ones I've actually studied with some degree of formality. The other Romance, Slavic, and Germanic languages are mostly from knowing related languages, plus some amount of casual study. The last four are basically languages in which I happen to know a few words.
(By coincidence, I also ended up with 38, but most of mine are Indo-European, and Western European at that.)
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