2-syllable Languages that contain O

List of 2-syllable Languages that contain O

1

Breton

A Celtic language of Brittany in northwestern France — closely related to Welsh and Cornish, with about 210,000 speakers and ongoing revitalization efforts.

2

Coptic

The final stage of the ancient Egyptian language — the language of early Christian Egypt and still the liturgical tongue of the Coptic Orthodox Church.

3

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.

4

Croatian

A South Slavic language and the official tongue of Croatia — written in Latin script and mutually intelligible with Serbian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin.

5

Dzongkha

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

6

Faroese

A North Germanic language of the Faroe Islands — closely related to Icelandic, spoken by about 72,000 people in the autonomous territory of Denmark.

7

Gothic

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

8

Hopi

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

9

Ido

A reformed version of Esperanto created in 1907 to address perceived flaws — the most significant Esperanto offshoot, with a small but persistent community.

10

Igbo

A Niger-Congo language of southeastern Nigeria — spoken by about 30 million people and one of Nigeria's three official "majority" languages.

11

Klingon

A constructed language created by linguist Marc Okrand for the Star Trek franchise — the most fully developed and widely spoken of all fictional languages.

12

Korean

A language isolate spoken by about 80 million people across the Korean peninsula and its diaspora — written in Hangul, an alphabet designed for it in the 15th century.

13

Krio

An English-based creole that is the lingua franca of Sierra Leone — descended from the speech of freed Africans resettled in Freetown from the late 18th century.

14

Lojban

A constructed language designed for unambiguous logical expression — every sentence parses to exactly one syntactic and semantic interpretation.

15

Maori

An Eastern Polynesian language and the indigenous language of New Zealand — an official language of Aotearoa, undergoing active revitalization after late-20th-century decline.

16

Mohawk

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

17

Old Norse

The North Germanic language of the Viking Age — ancestor of Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish — and the language of the Eddas and sagas.

18

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.

19

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.

20

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.

21

Samoan

A Polynesian language and the official tongue of Samoa and American Samoa — closely related to other Polynesian languages and the foundation for understanding the Polynesian dispersal.

22

Sango

A Ngbandi-based creole that serves as the national language of the Central African Republic.

23

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).

24

Slovak

A West Slavic language closely related to Czech — the official language of Slovakia, often considered the most central Slavic tongue in mutual intelligibility.

25

Slovene

A South Slavic language and Slovenia's official tongue — notable for preserving the rare grammatical dual number, used for exactly two of something.

26

Sotho

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

27

Tongan

A Polynesian language and the official tongue of the Kingdom of Tonga — a sister language to Samoan within the Polynesian family.

28

Wolof

A Niger-Congo language and the lingua franca of Senegal — spoken natively by about 5 million people and used as a second language by most Senegalese.

29

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.