My mom doesn't speak English very well.
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Speak
//spiːk//
Synonyms for "speak" (291 found)
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Strong matches (87)
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Noun(1 words)
How these synonyms differ
- articulate - 'Articulate' implies clarity and precision, an articulate speaker doesn't just talk but shapes ideas into language others can easily follow.
- declare - 'Declare' is speech made boldly and publicly, a declaration carries weight, intention, and often an expectation that others will listen.
- talk - 'Talk' is more casual and conversational, you talk to friends but speak at conferences. 'Speak' carries more formality and authority.
- utter - 'Utter' emphasizes the physical act of producing words, often used for single words or short phrases spoken under emotional pressure.
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494 translations across 215 languages.
Abkhaz
1 entries- азаԥра verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Afrikaans
1 entries- praat verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Ainu
1 entries- イェ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Akan
1 entries- kasa verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Albanian
1 entries- flas verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Algerian Arabic
2 entries- حكى verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- هدر verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- λαλέω verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Arabic
4 entries- تكلم verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- تَحَدَّثَ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- تَحَدَّثَ verb (to have a conversation)
- تَكَلَّمَ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Aragonese
1 entries- fablar verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Armenian
1 entries- խոսել verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Aromanian
2 entries- grescu verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- zburãscu verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Ashokan Prakrit
1 entries- 𑀩𑁄𑀮𑁆𑀮𑁆 verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Assamese
3 entries- কথা কোৱা verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- কোৱা verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- বোল verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
4 entries- ܗܲܡܙܸܡ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- ܗܲܡܙܸܡ verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
- ܡܨܵܘܹܬ݂ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- ܡܲܠܸܠ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Asturian
1 entries- falar verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Avar
1 entries- кӏалъазе verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- danışmaq verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Bashkir
4 entries- һөйләшеү verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- һөйләшеү verb (to have a conversation)
- һөйләшеү verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
- һөйләшә белеү verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
Basque
1 entries- berba egin verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Belarusian
4 entries- гавары́ць verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- размаўля́ць verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- размаўля́ць verb (to have a conversation)
- размо́віць verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Bengali
1 entries- বলা verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Bhojpuri
1 entries- बोलल verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Bikol Central
1 entries- taram verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Bislama
1 entries- toktok verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Borôro
1 entries- mago verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Breton
1 entries- komz verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Bulgarian
4 entries- разговор noun (speech, conversation)
- реч noun (speech, conversation)
- гово́ря verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- гово́ря verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
Burmese
2 entries- ပြော verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- မြွက် verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Catalan
2 entries- parlar verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- parlar verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
Central Atlas Tamazight
2 entries- sawl verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- ssiwel verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Chechen
1 entries- къамел да verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Cherokee
2 entries- ᎯᏬᏂ verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
- ᏂᎦᏪᎠ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Chickasaw
3 entries- anompoli verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- anompoli verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
- anompoli verb (to utter)
Chinese
4 entries- тан хуа verb (to have a conversation)
- фә verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- шә verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- 講 /讲 verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Chinese Cantonese
4 entries- 出聲 /出声 verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- 話 /话 verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- 講嘢 /讲嘢 verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- 講話 /讲话 verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 會話 /会话 verb (to have a conversation)
- 會說 /会说 verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
- 說 /说 verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- 說話 /说话 verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Church Slavic
2 entries- говорити verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- ⰳⱁⰲⱁⱃⰻⱅⰹ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Cornish
3 entries- kewsel verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- kows verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- kowsel verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Corsican
1 entries- parlà verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Crimean Tatar
3 entries- aytmaq verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- laf etmek verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- söyleşmek verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Czech
4 entries- hovořit verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- hovořit verb (to have a conversation)
- konverzovat verb (to have a conversation)
- mluvit verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Dalmatian
1 entries- faular verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Danish
3 entries- snakke verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
- tale verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- taler verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
Dari
2 entries- صُحْبَت کَرْدَن verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- گَپ زَدَن verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Dutch
2 entries- spreken verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- spreken verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
Eastern Min Chinese
1 entries- 講 /讲 verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Egyptian
1 entries- D:d verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Esperanto
2 entries- paroli verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- paroli verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
Estonian
2 entries- rääkima verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- rääkima verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
Even
1 entries- гӫндэй verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Evenki
1 entries- гунми verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Faroese
1 entries- tosa verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Fijian
1 entries- vosa verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Finnish
4 entries- puhe noun (jargon/terminology)
- puhe noun (speech, conversation)
- ilmaista verb (to communicate a fact or feeling)
- jutella verb (to have a conversation)
French
4 entries- jargon noun (jargon/terminology)
- converser verb (to have a conversation)
- parler verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- parler verb (to have a conversation)
Friulian
1 entries- fevelâ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Galician
4 entries- xerga noun (jargon/terminology)
- conversar verb (to have a conversation)
- falar verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- falar verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
Georgian
1 entries- ლაპარაკი verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
German
4 entries- kommunizieren verb (to communicate or converse by some means other than orally)
- rede verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- reden verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- reden verb (to have a conversation)
Gothic
2 entries- 𐌵𐌹𐌸𐌰𐌽 verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- 𐍂𐍉𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Greek
2 entries- λέω verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- μιλώ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- pale verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Hakka Chinese
1 entries- 講 /讲 verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Hebrew
3 entries- דיבר \ דִּבֵּר verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- דיבר \ דִּבֵּר verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
- שׂוֹחֵחַ verb (to have a conversation)
Higaonon
1 entries- minikagi verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Hindi
4 entries- कहना verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- बात करना verb (to have a conversation)
- बोलना verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- बोलना verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
Hungarian
1 entries- beszél verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Icelandic
2 entries- tala verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- tala verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
Ido
1 entries- parolar verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Indonesian
2 entries- berbicara verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- berpidato verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Ingrian
1 entries- läätä verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Interlingua
1 entries- parlar verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Iranian Persian
4 entries- حَرْف زَدَن verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- سُخَن گُفْتَن verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- صُحْبَت کَرْدَن verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- صُحْبَت کَرْدَن verb (to have a conversation)
Irish
1 entries- labhair verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Istriot
1 entries- favalà verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Istro-Romanian
2 entries- ganęi verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- kuvintå verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Italian
4 entries- gergo noun (jargon/terminology)
- comunicare verb (to communicate or converse by some means other than orally)
- conversare verb (to have a conversation)
- parlare verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Itsekiri
1 entries- fọ̀ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Japanese
4 entries- しゃべる verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- 会話する verb (to have a conversation)
- 言う verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- 話す verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Javanese
1 entries- omong-omong verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Jeju
4 entries- ᄀᆞᆮ다 verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- ᄀᆞᆯ아지다 verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
- 말ᄀᆞᆮ다 verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- 이왁ᄒᆞ다 verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Judeo-Italian
1 entries- דברר verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Kabuverdianu
3 entries- fala verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- papia verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- papia verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Kaitag
1 entries- бикӏва́ра verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Kannada
4 entries- ಎನು verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- ಎನ್ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- ಮಾತನಾಡು verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- ಮಾತಾಡು verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Kazakh
4 entries- айту verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- сөз сөйлеу verb (to deliver a speech)
- сөйлесу verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- сөйлесу verb (to have a conversation)
Khmer
3 entries- ក្លាវ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- និយាយ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- និយាយ verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
Konkani
1 entries- उलौचे verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Korean
4 entries- 대화하다 verb (to have a conversation)
- 말씀하다 verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- 말하다 verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- 이야기하다 verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Kumyk
2 entries- лакъыр этмек verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- сёйлемек verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- сүйлөө verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Ladino
2 entries- avlar verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- favlar verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Lao
4 entries- ກ່າວ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- ຄຸຍ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- ພູດ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- ເວົ້າ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Latgalian
1 entries- runuot verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Latin
4 entries- dīcō verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- effor verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- for verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- fābulor verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Latvian
2 entries- runāt verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- runāt verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
Laz
1 entries- isinapams verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Lithuanian
2 entries- kalbėti verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- kalbėti verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
Lower Sorbian
2 entries- powědaś verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- powěźeś verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Lule Sami
1 entries- hållat verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- schwätzen verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Lü
2 entries- ᦀᦴᧉ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- ᦔᦱᧅ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Macedonian
2 entries- говори verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- зборува verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Malay
1 entries- bercakap verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Malayalam
1 entries- സംസാരിക്കുക verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Maltese
1 entries- tkellem verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Manchu
1 entries- ᡤᡳᠰᡠᡵᡝᠮᠪᡳ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Maore Comorian
1 entries- ulagua verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
Marathi
1 entries- बोलणे verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Meänkieli
2 entries- praatata verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- praatata verb (to have a conversation)
Middle English
2 entries- speken verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- worden verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Middle French
1 entries- parler verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Mingrelian
2 entries- რაგადი verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- რაგაჯი verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Mirandese
1 entries- falar verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Mongolian
4 entries- хэлэх verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- ярих verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- ᠬᠡᠯᠡᠬᠦ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- ᠶᠠᠷᠢᠬᠤ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Mwani
1 entries- kusowera verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Nahuatl
1 entries- tlatoa verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Navajo
1 entries- yáshtiʼ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Neapolitan
1 entries- parlà verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Nepali
1 entries- बोल्नु verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Ngarrindjeri
1 entries- kungun verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Norman
3 entries- parlaïr verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- pâler verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- pâler verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
North Frisian
3 entries- snaake verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- spreeg verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- spreege verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- axaftin verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- peyivîn verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Northern Min Chinese
1 entries- 講 /讲 verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Northern Ohlone
1 entries- nonwente verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Northern Sami
3 entries- hoallat verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- hupmat verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- hállat verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Northern Thai
1 entries- ᩋᩪ᩶ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- kommunisere verb (to communicate or converse by some means other than orally)
- konversere verb (to have a conversation)
- prate verb (to have a conversation)
- preke verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- snakka verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- tala verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Nǀuu
1 entries- ǂxoa verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Occitan
1 entries- parlar verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Ojibwe
3 entries- gaagiigido verb (to deliver a speech)
- giigido verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- mo verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
Old Armenian
1 entries- խօսիմ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Old East Slavic
1 entries- говорити verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Old English
2 entries- specan verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- sprecan verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Old French
2 entries- parler verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- paroler verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Old Galician-Portuguese
1 entries- falar verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Old Occitan
1 entries- parlar verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Old Saxon
1 entries- sprekan verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Old Spanish
1 entries- fablar verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Ossetian
1 entries- дзурын verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Pannonian Rusyn
2 entries- бешедовац verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- гуториц verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Pashto
1 entries- خبرې کول verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Pennsylvania German
1 entries- schwetze verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Piedmontese
1 entries- parlé verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Pipil
2 entries- taketza verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- taquetza verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Pitjantjatjara
1 entries- wangkanyi verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Polish
4 entries- mówić verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- mówić verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
- rozmawiać verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- rozmawiać verb (to have a conversation)
Portuguese
4 entries- gíria noun (jargon/terminology)
- jargão noun (jargon/terminology)
- falar verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- falar verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
Prakrit
1 entries- 𑀩𑁄𑀮𑁆𑀮𑀇 verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਬੋਲਣਾ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Quechua
4 entries- parlay verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- rimai verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- rimay verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- rimay verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
Romanian
4 entries- a discuta verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- a vorbi verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- comunica verb (to communicate or converse by some means other than orally)
- vorbi verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
Romansch
2 entries- pledar verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- tschantschar verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Russian
4 entries- говори́ть verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- говори́ть verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
- говори́ть verb (to utter)
- обща́ться verb (to communicate or converse by some means other than orally)
Samoan
1 entries- tautala verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Sanskrit
4 entries- ब्रवीति verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- भणति verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- भनति verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- भाषते verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Santali
1 entries- ᱨᱳᱲ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Sardinian
3 entries- fabedda verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- faeddare verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- fueddai verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- bruidhinn verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- govòriti verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- гово̀рити verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Shona
1 entries- kutaura verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Sicilian
2 entries- parlari verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- parrari verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Sinhalese
1 entries- කථා කරනවා verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Slovak
2 entries- hovoriť verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- rozprávať verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Slovene
1 entries- govoriti verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Sotho
1 entries- bua verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Southern Altai
1 entries- сӧйлӧӧр verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Southern Sami
3 entries- håaledh verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- håalodh verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- nåalodh verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Southern Thai
1 entries- แหลง verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Spanish
4 entries- jerga noun (jargon/terminology)
- chapurrar verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
- chapurrear verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
- charlar verb (to have a conversation)
Sranan Tongo
1 entries- bro verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Swahili
1 entries- ongea verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Swedish
4 entries- fackspråk noun (jargon/terminology)
- jargong noun (jargon/terminology)
- hålla tal verb (to deliver a speech)
- kommunicera verb (to communicate or converse by some means other than orally)
Sylheti
1 entries- ꠇꠕꠣ ꠇꠃꠣ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Tagalog
1 entries- magsalita verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Tahitian
1 entries- parau verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Tajik
4 entries- гап задан verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- гуфтан verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- сухбат кардан verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- ҳарф задан verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Tamil
1 entries- பேசு verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Tatar
3 entries- сөйләргә verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- сөйләшергә verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- әйтергә verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Telugu
1 entries- మాట్లాడు verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Tetum
1 entries- ko'alia verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Thai
3 entries- กล่าว verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- พูด verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- สนทนา verb (to have a conversation)
Tibetan
1 entries- སྐད་ཆ་བཤད verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Tocharian B
1 entries- we verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Tonga (Zambia)
1 entries- amba verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Tupinambá
1 entries- nhe'eng verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Turkish
4 entries- haberleşmek verb (to communicate or converse by some means other than orally)
- iletişim kurmak verb (to communicate or converse by some means other than orally)
- konuşmak verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- yazışma verb (to communicate or converse by some means other than orally)
Turkmen
3 entries- geplemek verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- gürlemek verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- sözlemek verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Tuvan
1 entries- чугаалаар verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Udmurt
1 entries- вераськыны verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎄𐎁𐎗 verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Ukrainian
4 entries- говори́ти verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- розмовля́ти verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- розмовля́ти verb (to have a conversation)
- сказа́ти verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Upper Sorbian
2 entries- porěčeć verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- rěčeć verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Urdu
3 entries- بات کَرْنا verb (to have a conversation)
- بولْنا verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- کَہْنا verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Uyghur
2 entries- ئېيتماق verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- سۆزلىمەك verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Uzbek
1 entries- gaplashmoq verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Venetan
1 entries- parlar verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Veps
1 entries- pagišta verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Vietnamese
2 entries- biết nói verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
- nói verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Volapük
1 entries- spikön verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Votic
1 entries- pajatta verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Walloon
4 entries- cåzer verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- cåzer verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
- divizer verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- divizer verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
Welsh
2 entries- llefaru verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- siarad verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
West-Frisian
1 entries- sprekke verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
White Hmong
1 entries- hais lus verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Wolof
1 entries- wax verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Wu Chinese
1 entries- 講 /讲 verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Yakut
1 entries- саҥар verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Yiddish
2 entries- רעדן verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- רעדן verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
Yoruba
2 entries- gbọ́ verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
- sọ̀rọ̀ verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Yucatec Maya
3 entries- tsikbal verb (to have a conversation)
- tʼaan verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
- tʼan verb (to be able to communicate in a language)
Zhuang
1 entries- gangj verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
Zulu
1 entries- khuluma verb (to communicate with one's voice using words)
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