2-syllable Languages that contain S

List of 2-syllable Languages that contain S

1

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.

2

Burmese

A Sino-Tibetan language and the official tongue of Myanmar — written in a rounded Brahmic script and spoken by about 33 million people as a first language.

3

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.

4

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.

5

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.

6

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.

7

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.

8

Finnish

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

9

Frisian

A cluster of West Germanic languages spoken in the Netherlands and Germany — English's closest living relative, with about 470,000 speakers.

10

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.

11

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.

12

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.

13

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.

14

Plains Cree

The largest dialect of Cree — a Central Algonquian language spoken across the Canadian prairies from Alberta to Manitoba.

15

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.

16

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.

17

Russian

An East Slavic language and the most widely spoken Slavic tongue — official across the Russian Federation and a key second language throughout the former Soviet sphere.

18

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.

19

Sango

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

20

Sanskrit

The classical liturgical and literary language of the Indian subcontinent — the language of the Vedas, the Mahabharata, and a millennia-spanning tradition of grammar and poetics.

21

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).

22

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.

23

Slovak

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

24

Slovene

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

25

Sotho

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

26

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.

27

Swedish

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

28

Turkish

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

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.

30

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.