Languages Supported by Fine Reader

Click a language name to display the language information. The data on number of native speakers are as of the year 1989.

Main languages

Additional languages

Artificial languages

Main languages

The distinctive feature of the main languages is that FineReader provides dictionary support for them. You may use FineReader spelling check system for checking texts written in these languages.

• Bulgarian

  A south slavic language. Official language of Bulgaria. A mother tongue for some 9 million people.
  

• Czech

  A west slavic language. Official language of Czech Republic, spoken also in Slovakia. A mother tongue for some 10 million people.
  

• Danish

  A gemanic (scandinavian) language. Official language of Denmark, spoken also in Greenland and Faroe islands. A mother tongue for some 5 million people.
  

• Dutch (Netherlands & Belgian)

  A germanic language. Official language of Netherlands and Belgium. A mother tongue for some 20 million people.
  

• English

  A germanic language. The main international language. A UN language. The official language of USA, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland (officially second to Irish), Australia, New Zealand, India (on a temporary status) and 15 african states: Republic of South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda etc. A mother tongue for more than 400 million people.
  

• Estonian

  A finno-ugric (baltic-finnic) language. Official language of Estonia. A mother tongue for some 1 million people.
  

• Finnish

  A finno-ugrig (baltic-finnic) language. Official language of Finland, spoken also in Russia (Karelia, St.Petersburg region), Sweden. A mother tongue for some 5 million people.
  

• French

  A romance language. A UN language. Official language of France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Monaco, Andorra, Canada, Haiti, several african states: Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Gabon, Guinea, Zaire, Congo, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Tchad, Burundi, Rwanda, Central African Republic, Madagascar, Cameroon, Seychelles, Comoros, Jibuti, Vanuatu (Oceania). A mother tongue for more than 100 million people.
  

• German (old & new spelling)

  A germanic language. Official language of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Belgium. A mother tongue for some 100 million people.
  

• Greek

  An indo-european language forming its own group. Official language of Greece and Cyprus. A mother tongue for some 12 million people.
  

• Italian

  A romance language. Official language of Italy. A mother tongue for some 70 million people.
  

• Norwegian (Bokmal & Nynorsk)

  A germanic (scandinavian) language. Official language of Norway. The literary language exists in two forms: nynorsk and bokmal (the latter is more Danish). A mother tongue for some 4 million people.
  

• Polish

  A west slavic language. Official language of Poland. A mother tongue for some 40 million people.
  

• Portuguese (Portugal & Brazilian)

  A romance language. Official language of Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe. A mother tongue for some 170 million people.
  

• Russian

  An east slavic language. Official language of Russian Federation, spoken also in all CIS states and baltic states. A mother tongue for some 200 million people.
  

• Spanish

  A romance language. Official language of Spain, all Latin American countries (save Brazil) and Equatorial Guinea. A UN language. A mother tongue for some 325 million people.
  

• Swedish

  A germanic (scandinavian) language. Official language of Sweden and Finland. A mother tongue for some 10 million people.
  

• Turkish

  A turkic language. Official language of Turkey and Cyprus, spoken also in Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Iran and Iraq. A mother tongue for some 55 million people.
  

• Ukrainian

  An east slavic language. Official language of Ukraine, spoken also in Russia and Byelorussia. A mother tongue for some 40 million people.
  

Additional languages

• Adyghe

  An abkhazo-adyghian (caucasian) language. Spoken in Russia (Adyghea, Krasnodar region). A mother tongue for some 120 thousand people.
  

• Afrikaans

  A germanic language. One of the official languages of Republic of South Africa. A mother tongue for some 6 million South African afrikaners (boers) û descendants of Netherlands colonists.
  

• Agul

  A lezgian (dagestanian) language. Spoken in Russia (Dagestan, Stavropol region) and Azerbaidzhan. A mother tongue for some 15áthousand people.
  

• Albanian

  An indo-european language forming its own group. Official language of Albania. A mother tongue for some 5 million people in Albania, Jugoslavia (Kosovo), Italy, Greece.
  

• Avar

  An avar-andi-dido (dagestanian) language. Spoken in Russia (Dagestan) and Azerbaidzhan. A mother tongue for some 600 thousand people.
  

• Aymara

  A quechumaran language (one of the languages of South America indians). One of the three official languages of Bolivia. A mother tongue for some 2 million aymara indians living in Peru and Bolivia. Most Aymara speakers speak also Quechua and Spanish. Some scientists prefer to treat Aymara not as a single language with some 10 dialects but as of Aymara language group.
  

• Basque

  An isolate language. A mother tongue for some 600 thousand people in Spain and France.
  

• Belarusian

  An east slavic language. Official language of Byelorussia. A mother tongue for some 9 million people.
  

• Blackfoot

  A west algonkian language. A mother tongue for less than 10 thousand indians in USA and Canada.
  

• Breton

  A brythonic (celtic) language. A mother tongue for some 1 million bretons in France.
  

• Bugotu

  An oceanic language (member of malayo-polynesian branch of austronesian languages) spoken in south east Solomon islands.
  

• Catalan

  A romance language (ibero-romance subgroup). A mother tongue for some 8 million people in Spain (Catalonia, Valencia, Balearic islands), France (Roussillon, East Pyrenees), Andorra and Sardinia island. One of the official languages of the above-stated spanish provinces and Andorra.
  

• Cebuano

  A philippinean (austronesian) language. Spoken in central Philippines. Usually considered to be a group of closely related languages (bisayan). A mother tongue for some 24 million people.
  

• Chamorro

  An austronesian language spoken in western Micronesia, particularly on Guam island. A mother tongue for some 60 thousand people.
  

• Corsican

  Usually considered to be a dialect of Italian, spoken on Corsica island. A mother tongue for some 100 thousand people.
  

• Crimean Tatar

  A turkic language spoken in Ukraine (Crimea). A mother tongue for some 700 thousand people.
  

• Croatian

  A south slavic language. Considered to be the same language as Serbian (forming the single Serbocroatian language, the only difference being in the spelling system used - cyrillic for Serbian and latin for Croatian) until the emergence of the independent Croatia. Official language of Croatia. A mother tongue for some 5 million people.
  

• Crow

  A siouan language spoken in Montana, USA. A mother tongue for less than 10 thousand people.
  

• Dakota

  A siouan language spoken in north USA (South Dakota, Montana). A mother tongue for some few thousand people.
  

• Dargwa

  A dagestanian language. Spoken in Russia (Dagestan). A mother tongue for some 360 thousand people.
  

• Eskimo (Cyrillic)

  An eskimo-aleut language. Spoken in south-east Chukchee peninsula (Russia), Alaska and nearby regions (USA), arctic regions of Canada, Greenland. A mother tongue for some 100 thousand people.
  

• Even

  A manchu-tungus language spoken in Russia (Okhotsk, Yakutia, Magadan region). A mother tongue for some 5 thousand people.
  

• Evenki

  A manchu-tungus language spoken in China, Russia (from Yenisey to Sakhalin), Mongolia. A mother tongue for some 30 thousand people (in Russia û some 10 thousand).
  

• Fijian

  An austronesian language spoken on Fiji islands. A mother tongue for some 300 thousand people.
  

• Frisian

  A germanic language spoken in Noord-Holland and Friesland (Netherlands), North Frisian islands, Helgoland island, Saterland (Germany). A mother tongue for some 400 thousand people.
  

• Friulian

  A romance language. Usually considered to be a rhaeto-romanic language. Spoken in Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Italy). A mother tongue for some 700 thousand people.
  

• Galician

  A romance language frequently referred to as a dialect of Spanish or Portuguese, spoken in Spain (Galicia). A mother tongue for some 4 million people.
  

• Ganda

  A bantu language spoken in Uganda. A mother tongue for some 3 million people.
  

• German (Luxembourg)

  One of the official languages of Luxemburg (also called Luxembourgian). Usually considered to be a Moselle-Franconian dialect of German.
  

• Guarani

  A tupian language spoken in Paraguay and nearby regions in Brazil, Argentina and Bolivia. A mother tongue for some 3 million guarani indians.
  

• Hani

  A sino-tibetan (lolo-burmish) language spoken in China, north Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. Also called Akha. A mother tongue for some 1 million people.
  

• Hawaiian

  An austronesian (polynesian) language spoken on Hawaii islands. A mother tongue for some 20 thousand people.
  

• Hungarian

  An ugric (uralic) language. Official language of Hungary, spoken also in nearby counties such as Jugoslavia, Austria, Slovakia, Romania, Ukraine. A mother tongue for some 14 million people.
  

• Icelandic

  A germanic (scandinavian) language. Official language of Iceland. A mother tongue for some 250 thousand people.
  

• Indonesian

  An austronesian language called Malay (some scientists consider it to be a dialect of Malay) before 1945. Official language of Indonesia under the name Bahasa Indonesia, used also for international communication. A mother tongue for some 160 million people.
  

• Ingush

  A nakh language spoken in Ingushetia. A mother tongue for some 200 thousand people.
  

• Irish

  A celtic language. First official language of Ireland. A mother tongue for less than 100 thousand people.
  

• Jingpo

  A tibeto-burman language spoken in south China and Myanmar. A mother tongue for some 600 thousand people.
  

• Kabardian

  An abkhazo-adyghian (caucasian) language spoken in Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, North Ossetia (Mozdok), Adyghea and nearby regions of Krasnodar and Stavropol regions. A mother tongue for some 300 thousand people.
  

• Karachay-balkar

  A turkic language (some prefer to consider this language to be made up of two separate, but closely related Karachay and Balkar languages) spoken in Russia (Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia). A mother tongue for some 200 thousand people.
  

• Kawa

  A kadai language (considered to be related both to thai and austronesian languages) spoken in China. A mother tongue for less than 50 thousand people.
  

• Kongo

  A bantu language spoken in Congo, Zaire, Angola. A mother tongue for some 10 million people.
  

• Kpelle

  A mande (Niger-Congo) language spoken in Guinea and Liberia. A mother tongue for less than 1 million people.
  

• Kumyk

  A turkic language spoken in Russia (Dagestan). A mother tongue for some 230 thousand people.
  

• Lak

  A dagestanian language spoken in Russia (Dagestan). A mother tongue for some 100 thousand people.
  

• Latin

  An italic language. Official language of Vatican and of classical Roman literature.
  

• Latvian

  A baltic language. Official language of Lativa. A mother tongue for some 2 million people.
  

• Lezgi

  A dagestanian language spoken in Russia (Dagestan) and Azerbaidzhan. A mother tongue for some 350 thousand people.
  

• Lithuanian

  A baltic language. Official language of Lithuania. A mother tongue for some 3 million people.
  

• Luba

  A bantu language spoken in Zaire. A mother tongue for some 6 million people.
  

• Macedonian

  A south slavic language. Official language of Macedonia. A mother tongue for some 2 million people.
  

• Malinke

  A mande (Niger-Congo) language. Spoken in Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Liberia, Sierra Leone. A mother tongue for some 4 million people.
  

• Maori

  A polynesian language spoken in New Zealand. A mother tongue for some 300 thousand people.
  

• Maya

  A maya language spoken in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. A mother tongue for some 1 million indians.
  

• Miao

  A myao-yao language spoken in China, Vietnam, partly in Laos and Thailand. A mother tongue for some 8 million people.
  

• Minangkabau

  An austronesian language spoken on Sumatra island (central and western regions). A mother tongue for some 6 million people.
  

• Mohawk

  An iroquoian language spoken in north-east USA and nearby Canada regions (Ontario and Erie lakes). A mother tongue for some 10 thousand people.

• Moldavian

  A romance language. Official language of Moldavia. Usually considered to be a variety of Romanian. A mother tongue for some 3 million people.
  

• NahuatI

  An aztec-tanoan language. Spoken in Mexico. A mother tongue for some 1 million people.
  

• Nivkh

  An isolated language spoken in Russia (Sakhalin, Amur region). A mother tongue for some 1 thousand people.
  

• Nogay

  A turkic language spoken in Russia (Karachay-Cherkessia, Krasnodar region). A mother tongue for some 55 thousand people.
  

• Nyanja

  A bantu language. Official language of Malawi, spoken also in Zambia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. A mother tongue for some 7 million people.
  

• Ojibway

  An algonkian language spoken in USA and Canada. A mother tongue for some few thousand indians.
  

• Ossetian

  An east iranian language. Spoken in Russia (North Ossetia) and Georgia (South Ossetia). A mother tongue for some 500 thousand people.
  

• Papiamento

  A spanish-based creole language. Spoken on Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao islands. A mother tongue for less than 1 million people.
  

• Quechua

  A quechumaran language. One of the official languages of Peru and Bolivia, spoken also in Equador and north Colombia, Chile and Argentina. A mother tongue for some 7-13 million indians.
  

• Rhaeto-Romanic

  A romance language. One of the official languages of Switzerland. A mother tongue for some 4 thousand people (Graubünden canton).
  

• Romanian

  A romance language. Official language of Romania. A mother tongue for some 25 million people.
  

• Romany

  An indian language spoken in gypsy diaspora throughout the whole world. A mother tongue for some 1-5 million people.
  

• Rundi

  A bantu language. One of the official languages of Burundi, spoken also in Tanzania and Zaire. A mother tongue for some 7 million people.
  

• Samoan

  A polynesian language. One of the official languages of Western Samoa. A mother tongue for some 240 thousand people.
  

• Scottish Gaelic

  A celtic language spoken in Scotland, Hebrides and in Nova Scotia (Canada). A mother tongue for less than 100 thousand people.
  

• Selkup

  A samoyedic (uralic) language spoken in Russia (Krasnoyarsk and Tomsk regions). A mother tongue for some 2 thousand people.
  

• Serbian (Cyrillic)

  A south slavic language (see also Croatian). Official language of Jugoslavia. A mother tongue for some 8 million people.
  

• Slovak

  A west slavic language. Official language of Slovakia, spoken also in nearby regions of Hungary, Romania and Ukraine. A mother tongue for some 5 million people.
  

• Slovenian

  A south slavic language. Official language of Slovenia, spoken also in nearby regions of Austria and Italy. A mother tongue for some 2 million people.
  

• Somali

  An afro-asiatic (cushitic) language. Official language of Somali, spoken also in Jibuti, Ethiopia, Kenya. A mother tongue for some 9 million people.
  

• Swahili

  A bantu language. The main language of international communication (the commercial lingua franca) in central and east Africa (particularly in Tanzania and Kenya). Official language of Uganda. A mother tongue for some 10-50 million people.
  

• Swazi

  A bantu language. Official language of Swaziland, spoken also in north-east Republic of South Africa. A mother tongue for some 2 million people.
  

• Tabasaran

  A dagestanian spoken in Russia (Dagestan). A mother tongue for some 75 thousand people.
  

• Tagalog

  A philippinean (austronesian) language. Official language of Philippines. A mother tongue for some 35 million people.
  

• Tahitian

  A polynesian (austronesian) language. Official language of French Polynesia, spoken also in New Caledonia and Vanuatu. A mother tongue for some 100 thousand people.
  

• Tok Pisin

  An english-based creole language. Official language of Papua New Guinea. A mother tongue for some 3 million people.
  

• Tongan

  A polynesian (austronesian) language. Official language of Tonga, spoken also in New Zealand, Fiji, Western Samoa. A mother tongue for some 120 thousand people.
  

• Tun

  A thai language spoken in south China. A mother tongue for some 700 thousand people.
  

• Wolof

  A Niger-Congo language (west atlantic branch). Official language of Senegal, spoken also in Gambia and Mauritania. A mother tongue for some 4 million people.
  

• Xhosa

  A bantu language spoken in Republic of South Africa. A mother tongue for some 8 million people.
  
  

• Zapotec

  An indian language spoken in south Mexico. A mother tongue for some 400 thousand people.
  

Artificial languages

• Ido

  Introduced in 1907 by L. de Beaufront. A reworked version of Esperanto. Never acquired any considerable popularity.
  

• Interlingua

  Introduced in 1903 by a famous mathematician Giuseppe Peano, reworked in mid XX century by a linguist A.Gode. Some scientific journals publish abstracts in Interlingua.