Languages by their literal English name

Guess the language based on the literal meaning of their English name.

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Hint	Answer
"fishers" or perhaps "from the hook-shaped peninsula"	English
"coastal" people	Swahili
"javelin" people	French
"neighbors" or perhaps "noisy" people	German
"rib" or "sickle" or perhaps "hatchet" people	Persian
"those who live in caves"	Cherokee
"official speech"	Mandarin
"African" people	Afrikaans
"south Cantonese"	Vietnamese
"tin place" or perhaps "tin swamp"	Bengali
"fierce" or perhaps "angry" people	Xhosa
"Indian island" people	Indonesian
people of the "little castle"	Luxembourgish
people of the "land of bulls"	Italian

Hint	Answer
"white people from the East coast of Sweden"	Belarussian
"people who are not Greek"	Berber
"army" or perhaps "camp"	Urdu
"word-speakers"	Slovenian, Slovakian
"Eastern people"	Estonian
"temperate valley"	Quechua
"from the province"	Provençal
"Irish people from Ireland"	Scots Gaelic
"people" people	Dutch
"hundred ridges"	Hunsrik
"sun origin" people	Japanese
"profiteer" people	Kazakh
"barley island" people	Javanese
"great nation" people	Marathi