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Samoan language is the traditional language of Samoa and American Samoa and is an official language in both political bodies. It is a member of the Austronesian family, and more specifically the Samoic branch of the Polynesian subphylum. There are 370,337 Samoan-speakers worldwide, nearly half of them in the Samoan Islands.

The Sanskrit language is a classical language of India, a liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, and one of the 23 official languages of India.

Sardinian is the main language spoken in the island of Sardinia, Italy, remarkable for being the most conservative of the Romance languages and for its Paleosardinian substratum.

Serbian language is one of the standard versions of the Štokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs everywhere. The former standard is known as Serbo-Croatian language, now split into Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian standards.

Shan language is related to the Thai language and is commonly called Tai-Yai, or Tai Long. It is spoken in Northeast Myanmar, that is to say, in the Shan States of Burma, and in pockets in Thailand.

Slovenian is an Indo-European language that belongs to the family of South Slavic languages. It is spoken by approximately 2 million speakers worldwide, the majority of whom live in Slovenia. Slovenian is one of the few languages to have preserved the dual grammatical number from Proto-Indo-European.

Somali language is a member of the East Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. It is spoken mostly in Somalia and adjacent parts of Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya. Its speakers are known as Somalis. Because of the civil war and diaspora, speakers are found all over the world

Spanish is an Iberian Romance language. It was spoken by roughly 364 million people in the year 2000 Current estimation accounts up to 400 million, making Spanish the third language in the world in number of speakers and the most widely spoken and the most widely studied Romance language

Swedish is a North Germanic language spoken predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland, especially along the coast and on the Åland islands, by more than nine million people

Syriac is an Eastern Aramaic language that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent. It was a major literary language throughout the Middle East from the second to the eighth century AD. At its broadest definition, Syriac is often used to refer to all Eastern Aramaic languages spoken by various Christian groups; at its most specific, it refers to the classical language of Edessa, which became the liturgical language of Syriac Christianity