Can you name the languages from their word for 'friend'? by triviahappy

Can you name the languages from their word for 'friend'?

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Source: http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=789897 and http://www.theholidayspot.com/friendship/various_languages.htm
***In many languages, there may be other words for a person who is a friend, just as in English we can say pal, buddy, mate, chum, etc.. In most cases, I listed only one word, but a few list more.
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Friend	Language
friend
朋友 péngyǒu
Freund or Freundin
صاحب (sahib)‌ or صديقي (sadiqi)
ami
barát
φίλος (philos)
友達 (tomodachi)
rafiki
cara
amigo

Friend	Language
親舊 (chingu or jingu)
друг (drug)
amico
ven
amicus
vriend
दोस्त (dost)
venn
kaibigan
vän or kompis
hoaloha, makamaka, or aikāne
dost or doost
mellon

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	Aaron_Kashtan:	Apr 20th, 2010 at 14:50 GMT	2 points
	What about "mellon"?

	Lello18:	Apr 20th, 2010 at 14:53 GMT	1 point
	rafiki is also in arabic

	triviahappy:	Apr 20th, 2010 at 21:05 GMT	1 point
	aaron_Kashtan: I didn't know what you meant, so I looked it up. That's fun. I'll add it as a bonus. :)

	triviahappy:	Apr 20th, 2010 at 21:10 GMT	1 point
	Lello18: I do see that rafiki is derived from Arabic rafiq. I'll add Arabic as an alternate answer for that space, but since I have the Swahili form written down, I'll leave that as the answer that shows. Thanks. :)

	phibbyfan:	Apr 21st, 2010 at 03:55 GMT	1 point
	I think it would be better without the native languages written beside the words. It's just too obvious what is Hindi, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, etc. We just have to identify the script rather than the word. You could even take out the diacritics in Chinese, Hungarian, Swedish, and Hawaiian.

	Skyepainter:	Apr 21st, 2010 at 17:38 GMT	1 point
	I have to disagree. The native script should be included, because that is the true spelling of those words. Nice quiz :)

	ulashima:	Jul 30th, 2010 at 09:09 GMT	1 point
	One thing about Korean, normally the Chinese characters are not used apart from the cases where there are ambuigities from the same sounding words on newspapers or academic documents. Hangul, the Korean script is used for general usage. But sometimes some non-Latin characters just don't show up on Sporcle, so we can understand that usage.

	Williams27:	Jul 30th, 2010 at 10:57 GMT	1 point
	Decent quiz. German nouns should be capitalised.

	rca:	Jul 30th, 2010 at 21:39 GMT	1 point
	Nice quiz.