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What languages are not Slavic?

It's easier to list the languages that *are* Slavic, as there are many languages that are not. Here are some major language families that are not Slavic:

* Indo-European:

* Germanic: English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Danish

* Romance: French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian

* Celtic: Irish, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Breton

* Indo-Iranian: Hindi, Urdu, Persian, Bengali, Punjabi

* Greek: Modern Greek

* Armenian: Armenian

* Balto-Slavic: Baltic: Lithuanian, Latvian

* Balto-Slavic: Slavic: East Slavic: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

West Slavic: Polish, Czech, Slovak

South Slavic: Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene

* Sino-Tibetan: Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Tibetan

* Afro-Asiatic: Arabic, Hebrew, Berber, Egyptian

* Niger-Congo: Yoruba, Swahili, Igbo

* Austronesian: Malay, Indonesian, Tagalog

* Dravidian: Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam

* Japanese

* Korean

* Turkic: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek

* Uralic: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

This list is not exhaustive, and there are many other language families and isolated languages around the world.

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