Table of languages spoken by Mezzofanti Home > Mezzofanti > Language table How many languages did Mezzofanti actually speak?
There is no short answer. The older he got, the more languages he spoke. Some languages he could only read,
others he spoke without accent. I have prepared a table to sum this up: Language | Fluency | Comments | English | Perfect | Somersetshire, Yorkshire,Lancashire dialects | Welsh | Medium | A traveller | Scottish | Perfect | A traveller | German | Perfect | Ancient Gothic, Rhetian, Sette Communi dialect, Dialects of Northern and Southern Germany | Hungarian | Perfect | | Hebrew | Perfect | Samaritan | Rabbinical Habrew | Perfect | | Arabic | Perfect | Syrian dialect, Egyptian, Moorish, Berber | Chaldee | Perfect | | Coptic | Perfect | | Ancient Armenian | Perfect | | Modern Armenian | Perfect | | Persian | Perfect | | Turkish | Perfect | | Maltese | Perfect | | Greek | Perfect | | Romaic | Perfect | | Latin | Perfect | | Italian | Perfect | Sicilian, Sardinian, Neapolitan, Bolognese, Lombard, Friulese | Spanish | Perfect | Catalan, Valencian, Majorican | Portuguese | Perfect | | French | Perfect | Provencal, Tolosan, Burgundian, Gascon, Bearnais, Lorraine, Bas Breton | Swedish | Perfect | | Danish | Perfect | | Dutch | Perfect | | Flemish | Perfect | | Illyrian | Perfect | | Russian | Perfect | | Polish | Perfect | | Czechish | Perfect | | Magyar | Perfect | Debreczeny, Bperies, Pesth, Transylvanian | Chinese | Perfect | Kiang-Si, Hu-quam | Syriac | Good | | Geez | Good | | Amarinna | Good | | Hindostani | Good | | Guzarattee | Good | | Basque | Good | Labourdain, Souletin, Guipuscoan | Wallachian | Good | | Californian | Good | | Algonquin | Good | | Koodish | Medium | | Georgian | Medium | | Servian | Medium | | Bulgarian | Medium | | Gipsy | Medium | | Peguan | Medium | | Angolese | Medium | | Mexican | Medium | | Chilian | Medium | | Peruvian | Medium | | Cingalese | Less | | Birmese | Less | | Japanese | Less | | Irish | Less | | Gaelic | Less | | Chippewa Indian | Less | | Deleware | Less | | Languages of Oceanica | Less | | Sanscrit | Writing only | | Malay | Writing only | | Tonquinese | Writing only | | Cochin-chinese | Writing only | | Tibetan | Writing only | | Icelandic | Writing only | | Lappish | Writing only | | Ruthenian | Writing only | | Frisian | Writing only | | Lettish | Writing only | | Corhish | Writing only | | Quichua | Writing only | | Bimbarra | Writing only | |
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