3-syllable Languages that contain I

List of 3-syllable Languages that contain I

1

Afrikaans

A West Germanic language that evolved from 17th-century Dutch in South Africa — the world's youngest major language and one of South Africa's eleven official tongues.

2

Amharic

A Semitic language and the working language of Ethiopia — written in the ancient Geʽez script and spoken as a first or second language by tens of millions.

3

Ancient Greek

The classical language of Homer, Plato, and the New Testament — a Hellenic branch of Indo-European that shaped Western philosophy, science, and theology.

4

Arabic

A Central Semitic language whose Classical form is the liturgical tongue of Islam and whose Modern Standard form unites a continuum of regional varieties spoken from Morocco to Oman.

5

Aramaic

The Semitic lingua franca of the ancient Near East — spoken by Jesus, used in parts of the Hebrew Bible, and still alive today in scattered Christian and Jewish communities.

6

Bengali

An Indo-Aryan language of Bengal — official in Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal — with a rich literary tradition that produced Asia's first Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore.

7

Bislama

An English-based creole that serves as the national language of Vanuatu — one of three official languages alongside English and French.

8

Bosnian

A South Slavic language standardized by Bosniaks — one of three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina, mutually intelligible with Croatian and Serbian.

9

Corsican

A Romance language of the island of Corsica — closely related to Tuscan Italian, with about 130,000 speakers and growing institutional support in France.

10

Dhivehi

The Indo-Aryan language of the Maldives — closely related to Sinhala but isolated in a thousand-island archipelago.

11

Dothraki

A fictional language created by linguist David J. Peterson for HBO's *Game of Thrones* adaptation — the language of the nomadic Dothraki horse-lords.

12

Fijian

An Austronesian (Oceanic) language and one of Fiji's three official languages — spoken alongside English and Fiji Hindi by most of the indigenous Fijian population.

13

Galician

A Romance language closely related to Portuguese — co-official in Galicia in northwestern Spain, with about 2.4 million speakers.

14

Greenlandic

An Eskimo-Aleut language and the sole official language of Greenland — a polysynthetic Inuit language spoken by about 50,000 people.

15

Guarani

A Tupian language and the co-official language of Paraguay — spoken by about 5 million people, unique among major Latin American languages for being used by both Indigenous and mestizo populations.

16

Ladino

The Judaeo-Spanish language preserved by Sephardic Jews after the 1492 expulsion from Spain — a 15th-century Iberian Romance variety with Hebrew, Turkish, and Greek admixture.

17

Latvian

A Baltic language and the official tongue of Latvia — closely related to Lithuanian and similarly conservative, though with some innovations like fixed first-syllable stress.

18

Lingala

A Bantu language and a lingua franca along the Congo River — spoken by tens of millions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Republic of the Congo.

19

Mandinka

A Mande language spoken across the western Sahel — the most widely spoken language in The Gambia and a major language in Senegal and Guinea-Bissau.

20

Marathi

An Indo-Aryan language of western India and the official language of Maharashtra — written in Devanagari and famous for the poetry of saints like Tukaram and Dnyaneshwar.

21

Nepali

An Indo-Aryan language and the official tongue of Nepal — written in Devanagari and the lingua franca for a country of more than 100 ethnic groups.

22

Occitan

A Romance language of southern France, Monaco, parts of Italy and Spain — once the prestige tongue of medieval troubadour poetry, today minority and endangered.

23

Odia

An Indo-Aryan language and the official tongue of the Indian state of Odisha — one of India's six classical languages, with a literary tradition dating to the 13th century.

24

Ojibwe

A Central Algonquian language spoken across the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada — one of the most widely spoken Indigenous languages in North America.

25

Old English

The West Germanic language spoken in early medieval England — the language of *Beowulf*, unrecognisable to modern English speakers without study.

26

Ossetian

An Eastern Iranian language and the official language of North Ossetia (Russia) and South Ossetia — about 540,000 speakers, descended from the Alans and Scythians.

27

Romani

An Indo-Aryan language of the Roma people — spoken across Europe and the Americas by an estimated 4 million people, with many regional dialects.

28

Serbian

A South Slavic language and the official tongue of Serbia — the only major European language to use both Latin and Cyrillic scripts in everyday life.

29

Sindarin

A fictional Elvish language created by J.R.R. Tolkien — the everyday language of the Grey-elves of Middle-earth, modelled on Welsh phonology.

30

Sinhala

An Indo-Aryan language brought to Sri Lanka over two millennia ago — official in the island nation alongside Tamil, with about 16 million native speakers.

31

Sogdian

The Middle Iranian language of the Sogdian merchant city-states of Central Asia — the lingua franca of the Silk Road for over a thousand years.

32

Somali

A Cushitic language and the official tongue of Somalia — distinguished by its complex tone-accent system and a uniquely Latin-based orthography adopted in 1972.

33

Swahili

A Bantu language born from East African Indian Ocean trade — official in five countries and the lingua franca for over 200 million people across the African Great Lakes region.

34

Tahitian

A Polynesian language indigenous to French Polynesia — co-official with French, and the basis for much of the global vocabulary of Polynesia (such as "tattoo" from tatau).

35

Tibetan

A Sino-Tibetan language and the traditional language of Tibet — written in a Brahmic script developed in the 7th century, with about 6 million speakers.

36

Tok Pisin

An English-based creole and one of the three official languages of Papua New Guinea — the lingua franca for a country of over 800 languages.

37

Vietnamese

An Austroasiatic language spoken by about 85 million people — Vietnam's national language, written in a Latin-based script designed by 17th-century missionaries.

38

Wu Chinese

A major Sinitic branch centered on Shanghai and the lower Yangtze — its best-known variety, Shanghainese, has about 14 million speakers and a notable tonal system.