Walter Penney of Greenbelt, Md., offered this poser in the August 1969 issue of Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. Below are five groups of English words. Each group appears also in a foreign language. What are the languages?

1. aloud, angel, hark, inner, lover, room, taken, wig
2. alas, atlas, into, manner, pore, tie, vain, valve
3. ail, ballot, enter, four, lent, lit, mire, taller
4. banjo, chosen, hippo, pure, same, share, tempo, tendon
5. ago, cur, dare, fur, limes, mane, probe, undo