Other European languages
Czech
Czech is spoken by most people in the Czech Republic and by Czechs all over the world (about 12 million native speakers in total).
Greek
The Greek language, called Hellenic or Ellenika by the people who speak and write it, is an Indo-European language, born in Greece and once spoken also along the coast of Asia Minor and in southern Italy. 14 million people are native speakers of Greek, living in Greek and Cyprus.
Polish
Polish is mainly spoken in Poland, but Polish emigrants have brought the language with them, and there are significant numbers of Polish speakers in Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, UAE, and the USA.
Swedish
Swedish is a language spoken principally in Sweden, Finland, and Åland. Swedish is closely related to, and often mutually intelligible with, Danish and Norwegian. Swedish is the national language of Sweden, mother tongue for the Sweden-born inhabitants (7,881,000) and acquired by nearly all immigrants (1,028,000) (figures according to official statistics for 2001).
Turkish
Turkish is a Turkic language, spoken by about 70 million speakers in Turkey and over 85 million speakers world-wide. The Turkish name for the language is Türkçe. There are significant Turkish-speaking communities in many parts of the UK.
Welsh
The 2001 census gives a figure of 20.5% of the population of Wales as Welsh speakers (up from 18.5% in 1991), out of a population of about 3 million; however, it appears that about a third of the population of Wales has immigrated within the last 30 years.
Even among the Welsh-speakers, few, if any, residents of Wales are monolingual in Welsh. However, a large number of Welsh speakers are more comfortable expressing themselves in Welsh than in English.
Welsh Language Board
Supporting the Welsh language.