Noun
foreign language (plural foreign languages)
- 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.
- 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 waa6-2)
- 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 (şet tılı)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Roman: strani jezik m
- Slovak: cudzí jazyk m
- Slovene: tuji jezik m
- 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
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