The superficial polyglot

Thanks to Dora (whom I loathe), Uma now understands that there's English and there's Spanish. I was telling her the other day that there were other languages, and giving her examples of words I knew from them. I realized I actually know words from a lot of languages. I know at least one word from each of the following:

• Arabic


• Chinese


• English


• French


• German


• Greek (ancient)


• Greek (modern)


• Hebrew


• Hindi


• Italian


• Japanese


• Korean


• Latin


• Marathi


• Mongol


• Portuguese


• Russian


• Spanish


• Swahili


• Swedish


• Thai


• Turkish

Actually, given that many Indian languages use similar words for things like chick peas, I could probably add another 5 or 8 languages to the list. That seems like cheating, though. Restricting it to non-food words would make that list a lot shorter, as would needing to know, say, 5 words. Still, it surprised me. How many do you think you know?