- Arabic: هَل (hal) (initial), أَ (ar) (ʔa) (initial)
- Belarusian: ці (be) (ci) (initial)
- Chichewa: kodi (initial)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 嗎 / 吗 (maa1, maa3)
- Dungan: ма (ma)
- Hokkien: 嗎 / 吗 (ma / --ma)
- Mandarin: 嗎 / 吗 (zh) (ma) (final)
- Wu: 𠲎 (0va) (final)
- Esperanto: ĉu (eo) (initial)
- Finnish: -ko (fi) (final), -kö (fi) (final)
- French: est-ce que (fr) (initial), -tu (fr) (Canada, appended to the end of verbs (preserving the hyphen))
- Hebrew: הַאִם (he) m (ha'ím) (initial)
- Hindi: क्या (hi) (kyā)
- Hungarian: -e (hu) (optional, somewhat dialectal; no particle needed in standard)
- Irish: an (ga) (initial)
- Old Irish: in (initial)
- Japanese: か (ja) (ka) (final), かい (ja) (kai) (final)
- Korean: -ㅂ니까 (-mnikka) (after a vowel stem, formal), -습니까 (-seumnikka) (after a consonant stem, formal)
- Latin: ne (la)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: уу (mn) (uu) (final, back vowel vowel harmonic), үү (mn) (üü) (final, front vowel vowel harmonic)
- Persian: آیا (fa) (âyâ) (initial, formal)
- Polish: czy (pl) (initial)
- Russian: ли (ru) (li) (placed after the first word in the sentence or phrase, optional), ра́зве (ru) (rázve) (initial, optional)
- Scottish Gaelic: an (initial)
- Slovene: ali (sl) (initial)
- Swahili: je (initial, optional)
- Tajik: оё (oyo) (initial)
- Thai: ไหม (th) (mǎi) (final)
- Ukrainian: чи (uk) (čy) (initial)
- Urdu: کیا (kyā) (initial)
- Vietnamese: không (vi) (final), phải không (final), hả (vi), hử (vi), à (vi)
- Welsh:
- Middle Welsh: a (initial)
- Yiddish: צי (tsi) (initial)
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