Below is information on some of the languages that I either know or know something about and which have meant something to me personally.

• Latin
  Spoken in Italy and the western part of the Roman Empire in Antiquity; also used as a second language ever since.
  


• Greek
  Spoken in Greece since the second millennium B.C.
  


• Bengali
  Spoken mainly in West Bengal (India) and in Bangladesh (more than 171 million native speakers according to the 2005 edition of Ethnologue and c. 210 million including second-language speakers).
  


• Esperanto
  Language created by L. Zamenhof in the 1880's.