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Below is a list that represents all of the 69 languages that the World Service has broadcast since 1932. English Started: 19/12/1932 Arabic Started: 03/01/1938 Portuguese for Brazil Started: 14/03/1938 Portuguese for Africa Started: 04/06/1939 Romanian Started: 15/09/1939 Turkish Started: 20/11/1939 Hindi Started: 11/05/1940 Burmese Started: 02/09/1940 Persian Started: 28/12/1940 Cantonese Started: 05/05/1941 Mandarin Started: 05/05/1941 Tamil Started: 30/05/1941 Bengali Started: 10/11/1941 Russian Started: 07/10/1942 Ended: 26/05/1943 Restarted: 24/03/1946 Urdu Started: 03/04/1949 Indonesian Started: 30/10/1949 Vietnamese Started: 06/02/1952 Sinhala Started: 10/03/1942 Ended: 30/03/1976 Hausa Started: 13/03/1957 Swahili Started: 27/06/1957 Somali Started: 18/07/1957 French for Africa Started: 20/06/1960 Albanian Started: 12/11/1940 Ended: 20/01/1967 Nepali Started: 07/06/1969 Pashto Started: 15/08/1981 Serbian Started: 29/09/1991 Ukrainian Started: 01/06/1992 Kinyarwanda Started: 08/09/1994 Azeri Started: 30/11/1994 Uzbek Started: 30/11/1994 Kyrgyz Started: 01/04/1995 Macedonian Started: 06/01/1996 Polish Started: 07/08/1939 Ended: 23/12/2005 Hungarian Started: 05/09/1939 Ended: 31/12/2005 Greek Started: 30/09/1939 Ended: 31/12/2005 Czech Started: 31/12/1939 Ended: 28/02/2006 Bulgarian Started: 07/02/1940 Ended: 23/12/2005 Slovenian Started: 22/04/1941 Ended: 23/12/2005 Slovak Started: 31/12/1941 Ended: 20/12/2005 Thai Started: 27/04/1941 Ended: 05/03/1960 German Started: 27/09/1938 Ended: 30/03/1999 Finnish Started: 18/03/1940 Ended: 31/05/1997 French (for Europe) Started: 27/09/1938 Ended: 31/03/1995 Yugoslav (Serbo Croat) Started: 15/09/1939 Ended: 28/09/1991 Malay Started: 02/05/1941 Ended: 31/03/1991 Portuguese (for Europe) Started: 04/06/1939 Ended: 10/08/1957 Japanese Started: 04/07/1943 Ended: 31/03/1991 Italian Started: 27/09/1938 Ended: 31/12/1981 Maltese Started: 10/08/1940 Ended: 31/12/1981 French (for Canada) Started: 02/11/1942 Ended: 08/05/1980 Hebrew Started: 30/10/1949 Ended: 28/10/1968 Afrikaans Started: 14/05/1939 Ended: 08/09/1957 Danish Started: 09/04/1940 Ended: 10/08/1957 Norwegian Started: 09/04/1940 Ended: 10/08/1957 Dutch (for Europe) Started: 11/04/1940 Ended: 10/08/1957 Marathi Started: 01/03/1942 Ended: 03/09/1944 Austrian (German) Started: 29/03/1943 Ended: 15/09/1957 Croatian Started: 29/09/1991 Ended: 31/01/2006 Belgian (Flemish & French) Started: 28/09/1940 Ended: 30/03/1952 Kazakh Started:01/04/1995 Ended: 16/12/2005 Greek (for Cyprus) Started: 16/09/1940 Ended: 03/06/1951 French (for SE Asia) Started: 28/08/1944 Ended: 03/04/1955 Luxembourgish Started: 29/05/1943 Ended: 30/05/1952 Dutch (for Indonesia) Started: 28/08/1944 Ended: 02/04/1945 Chinese (Hokkien) Started: 01/10/1942 Ended: 07/02/1948 Icelandic Started: 01/12/1940 Ended: 26/06/1944 Gujerati Started: 01/03/1942 Ended: 03/09/1944 Welsh (for Patagonia) Started: 1945 Ended: 1946 |
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