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2-syllable Languages that contain H

Languages pronounced in 2 syllables that contain H — full profile for each.

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List of 2-syllable Languages that contain H

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    Bashkir

    A Turkic language of the Bashkir people in Russia — the official language of Bashkortostan, closely related to Tatar, with about 1.2 million speakers.

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    Chechen

    A Northeast Caucasian language and the official language of Chechnya (within Russia) — spoken by about 1.4 million people in the North Caucasus and the Chechen diaspora.

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    Chuvash

    The only surviving Oghur Turkic language — official in the Russian Republic of Chuvashia, spoken by about 1 million people and a key piece of Turkic linguistic history.

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    Cornish

    A revived Celtic language of Cornwall in southwestern England — extinct as a community language by the late 18th century, now spoken by a few hundred dedicated revivalists.

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    Danish

    A North Germanic language and the official tongue of Denmark — famous for soft "d" sounds, glottal stops (stød), and being notoriously hard to pronounce.

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    Dzongkha

    The national language of Bhutan — a Sino-Tibetan language of the southern Himalayas closely related to classical Tibetan.

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    English

    A West Germanic language with Norse and Norman French overlays — the most widely spoken language on Earth when second-language speakers are counted, and the de facto lingua franca of science, aviation, and the internet.

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    Finnish

    A Uralic language with elaborate agglutinative morphology — Finland's official tongue alongside Swedish, and one of the most grammatically distinctive languages in Europe.

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    Gothic

    The earliest substantially attested East Germanic language — preserved almost entirely in Bishop Wulfila's 4th-century Bible translation.

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    Hakka

    A Sinitic language of the dispersed Hakka people — historically labelled "guest families" — spoken across southern China, Taiwan, and a wide diaspora.

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    Hausa

    A Chadic language and one of Africa's largest lingua francas — spoken across northern Nigeria, southern Niger, and as a trade language throughout West Africa.

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    Hebrew

    A Northwest Semitic language with biblical roots — the official language of Israel, revived from liturgical use into a thriving modern vernacular in the 19th–20th centuries.

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    Hindi

    An Indo-Aryan language written in Devanagari and one of India's two official languages — the standardized form of a dialect continuum spoken across the Hindi Belt of northern India.

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    Hittite

    The earliest attested Indo-European language — spoken in Bronze Age Anatolia and rediscovered in the 20th century from cuneiform archives at Hattusa.

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    Hopi

    A Uto-Aztecan language of northeastern Arizona — spoken by the Hopi Tribe on the Hopi Reservation surrounded by the Navajo Nation.

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    Irish

    A Celtic language and the national language of Ireland — taught in all Irish schools, though daily speakers number only about 70,000 in the Gaeltacht regions.

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    Kazakh

    A Turkic language and the official language of Kazakhstan — about 13 million speakers, transitioning from Cyrillic to a Latin-based script by 2025.

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    Manchu

    A Tungusic language of the Manchu people of northeastern China — once the language of China's last imperial dynasty, today critically endangered.

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    Mohawk

    An Iroquoian language of upstate New York and southern Canada — the easternmost language of the Iroquois Confederacy, now undergoing significant revival.

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    Pashto

    An Eastern Iranian language and one of two official languages of Afghanistan — also spoken across the Pakistan-Afghanistan frontier by tens of millions of Pashtuns.

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    Polish

    A West Slavic language spoken by about 45 million people — Poland's national language and a major European tongue with a famously consonant-rich phonology.

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    Romansh

    A Romance language of the Swiss canton of Graubünden — one of Switzerland's four national languages, with about 60,000 speakers across five distinct dialects.

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    Shona

    A Bantu language and the most-spoken first language in Zimbabwe — also widely used in Mozambique, with a vibrant oral and musical tradition (especially mbira music).

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    Sindhi

    An Indo-Aryan language of the Indus delta — spoken by about 36 million people in Pakistan's Sindh province and the Indian diaspora, with rich Sufi poetic tradition.

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    Sotho

    A Bantu language spoken by about 6 million people across Lesotho, South Africa, and Zimbabwe — also called Sesotho or Southern Sotho.

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    Spanish

    A Romance language born in medieval Castile and carried by empire across the Americas — today the world's second-most-spoken native language and official in 21 countries.

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    Swedish

    A North Germanic language and the most-spoken Scandinavian tongue — official in Sweden and Finland, with a characteristic pitch accent.

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    Turkish

    The most spoken Turkic language and the official language of Turkey — famous for vowel harmony and a relentlessly suffixing morphology.

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    Uyghur

    A Turkic language of Xinjiang in northwestern China — spoken by about 11 million Uyghurs, written in a modified Perso-Arabic script.

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    Xhosa

    A Nguni Bantu language famous for its three click consonants — South Africa's second-most-spoken language and the mother tongue of Nelson Mandela.

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    Yiddish

    A High German language with Hebrew, Aramaic, and Slavic admixture — the historical mother tongue of Ashkenazi Jews and still spoken in Hasidic communities worldwide.

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    Yuchi

    A language isolate of the Yuchi people of Oklahoma — once spoken across the southeastern United States, now critically endangered.

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