| Example in Indonesian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Kau berbicara bahasa Rusia? | You speak Russian. |
| Sekarang mereka berbicara padamu? | They speak with you now do they? |
| Katakan kita tidak berbicara tentang ini. | Tell me we're not speaking of this. |
| - sampai aku berbicara dengan Keamanan Nasional... | - until I speak to the National Security-- |
| Kau gadis navigatorku apakah kau berbicara bahasa Inggris? | You're my nav-girl. You, do you speak English? |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | أعجم,تحدث, كلم | Basque | mintzatu |
| Catalan | parlar | Dutch | praaien, spreken |
| English | speak | Esperanto | ekparoli |
| Estonian | kõnelema, rääkima | Faroese | mæla, spráka, spreka, tala |
| Finnish | bamlata, sanailla, virkkaa | French | parler |
| German | reden, sprechen, zusprechen | Greek | αγριομιλώ, αγυρντίζω, μιλάω, μιλώ |
| Hawaiian | ʻōlelo | Hebrew | דיבר |
| Hungarian | beszél, szól, szólal | Icelandic | mæla |
| Italian | alitare, favellare | Latvian | runāt |
| Lithuanian | kalbėti, pakalbėti, šnekėti | Macedonian | збори, зборува |
| Malay | bicara | Maltese | tkellem |
| Maori | kōrero | Norwegian | snakke |
| Persian | سخن گفتن | Polish | mówić, odezwać, odzywać, przemawiać, przemówić, rozmawiać |
| Portuguese | dizer, falar | Quechua | parlay, rimay |
| Romanian | vorbi | Russian | балакать, басить, баять, говорить, разговаривать |
| Spanish | chistar, hablarse, parlar | Swedish | prata, prägla, pränta, tala |
| Thai | ดำรัส, ตรัส, พูด | Turkish | konuşmak, siymek |
| Vietnamese | ăn nói, cất tiếng, ngôn, nói, phát ngôn, rằng |