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Definition 2025

foreign language ‎(plural foreign languages)

A language that is not widely or officially spoken in a particular place.
Irish courts will hear cases in English or Gaelic, but speakers of foreign languages must find an interpreter.‎
A language that is not one's native tongue.
The children struggled in their Welsh lessons because they didn't have any experience of foreign languages.‎

any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place

Albanian: gjuhë e huaj
Arabic: لُغَة أَجْنَبِيَّة f ‎(luḡa ʾajnabiyya)
Armenian: օտար լեզու ‎(ōtar lezu)
Azeri: xarici dil
Basque: erdara (eu), erdera (eu)
Belarusian: заме́жная мо́ва f ‎(zamjéžnaja móva)
Bulgarian: чужд ези́к m ‎(čužd ezík)
Catalan: llengua estrangera (ca) f
Chinese:

Cantonese: 外語, 外语 ‎(ngoi⁶ jyu⁵), 外國語, 外国语 ‎(ngoi⁶ gwok³ jyu⁵)

Mandarin: 外語 (zh), 外语 (zh) ‎(wàiyǔ), 外國語 (zh), 外国语 (zh) ‎(wàiguóyǔ), 外文 (zh) ‎(wàiwén)
Czech: cizí jazyk m
Danish: fremmedsprog n
Dutch: vreemde taal c
Esperanto: fremda lingvo
Estonian: võõrkeel
Finnish: vieras kieli
French: langue étrangère (fr) f
Georgian: უცხო ენა ‎(ucxo ena)
German: Fremdsprache (de) f
Hebrew: שפה זרה f ‎(safá zara)
Hindi: विदेशी भाषा f ‎(videśī bhāṣā)
Hungarian: idegen nyelv (hu)
Icelandic: útlenska f
Indonesian: bahasa asing (id)
Irish: teanga iasachta f
Italian: lingua straniera
Japanese: 外国語 (ja) ‎(がいこくご, gaikokugo)
Kazakh: шет тілі ‎(şet tili)
Korean: 외국어 (ko) ‎(oegugeo) (外國語 (ko)), 외어 ‎(oeeo) (外語 (ko))
Kurdish: zimanê biyanî (ku)