| EUROPEAN | Group of languages including Spanish, Russian and Punjabi (4-8) |
| INDO | Group of languages including Spanish, Russian and Punjabi (4-8) |
| YUCCA | Genus of spiky, evergreen plants, with common names including Spanish dagger and needle palm (5) |
| GARLIC | Bulbous plant with a pungent taste and strong smell, much used in Mediterranean cuisine including Spanish alioli and Mallorca's Sopas Mallorquines (6) |
| BANTU | Group of languages including Swahili and Xhosa (5) |
| CELTIC | Group of languages including Irish, Welsh, etc |
| INDIC | Group of languages including Sanskrit |
| INDOARYAN | Group of languages including Sanskrit |
| SLAVONIC | Family of languages including Russian and Czech (8) |
| DRAVIDIAN | Family of languages including Tamil and Telugu (9) |
| COMPUTERS | Devices programmed in a variety of languages including machine code (9) |
| ASIA | Continent whose languages include Bangla and Punjabi (4) |
| NGUNI | Group of Bantu languages including Swazi, Xhosa and Zulu |
| TONAL | Like the Mandarin and Punjabi languages |
| TONES | Linguistic features of Yoruba, Navajo, and Punjabi |
| ROMANCE | A group of languages descended from Latin, including Catalan, Italian and Provencal; or, a medieval tale of adventure and heroism written in one of these vernaculars (7) |
| BRANCH | One of a number of boughs of a tree; or, by extension, a conceptual subdivision of a department, family, group of languages, subject etc (6) |
| ISLES | British -; archipelago with indigenous languages including English, Irish, Scots, Welsh, Cornish and Manx (5) |
| NILOTIC | A group of languages of East Africa including Luo, Dinka and Masai |
| CAUCASUS | Region between the Caspian and Black Seas, scene of fighting between the Russian and Ottoman empires (1914-17) (8) |
