The Malay (Bahasa Melayu) is a language spoken by people living in the Malay peninsula, southern Thailand, Philippines, Singapore, central eastern Sumatra and parts of the Borneo coast. It is an official language of Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore. About 18 million people speak Standard Malay, while there are also about 170 million people who speak Indonesian, which is a form of Malay. Malayan speakers have been reported in schools in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan.

Listen to Juliet Revell who was born on the island of Java, Indonesia but moved to Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire with her husband Gareth in 1988. Since then she has added Welsh to her many languages and has her own column in Fishguard's Welsh language community newspaper, Y Llien Gwyn.

Breton is a Celtic language closely related to Cornish and Welsh, though speakers of Welsh would not be able to understand a Breton speaker. It is spoken mainly in Brittany on the north-west coast of France by about 365,000 speakers. It has no official status. From 1880 to 1951 it was banned from schools and children were punished for speaking the language. Since 1951, the law has allowed Breton language and culture to be taught for a few hours a week. There is also limited radio broadcasting in Breton and a weekly one-hour TV programme.
Listen to Pascal Lafargue, who is originally from Rennes in Brittany. As there is no Breton spoken in Rennes nowadays, Pascal taught himself Breton and studied it as university. He wanted to regain his cultural heritage and be able to converse with the Breton speakers who still exist in rural parts of Brittany. He now lives and works in Cardiff, has learnt Welsh, and is raising his son to be Welsh-speaking.

Japanese is spoken by about 125 million people, 99% of them still in Japan. However the number of Japanese speakers living abroad has increased with the expansion of Japan's economy, working for Japanese companies or the government. There are about 50,000 Japanese speakers in the UK, with about 2000 of them living in Wales. Wales is the largest centre in Europe for Japanese electronics firms. The first Japanese manufacturing company came to Wales in 1973. Over the last 30 years, that number has expanded to about 60 firms, employing thousands of Welsh people. Japanese-speaking pupils have been reported in schools in Cardiff, Carmarthenshire, Flintshire, Merthyr Tydfil, Swansea/Neath/Port Talbot, the Vale of Glamorgan and Wrexham.

Listen to Midori Matsui who came to work for a Japanese company in South Wales in 1973 and has lived here ever since. She has for many years been involved with a Japanese Saturday school in Cardiff for the children of expatriate Japanese.

British Sign Language (or BSL) is the language used by Britain's Deaf community. It is a language in its own right, not a way of speaking English through signs. It is estimated that around 70,000 people use BSL as their first language, and that up to 250,000 people use some BSL.
Sign languages differ from country to country: British Sign Language is different from French or American Sign Language, for example. Just as in other languages, there are regional varieties or dialects too. BSL has a long history and culture, but for most of the 20th century, it was banned in schools for Deaf children. Pupils were made to speak and lip-read instead. Despite this, BSL survived and since 2003 it has been officially recognised by the Government as an independent language.
Jeff Brattan-Wilson was born in Swansea to Deaf parents and is himself Deaf. Watch the video and read the transcript to find out what he has to say about his first language, which is British Sign Language.