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=== Former services === {|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: left:0.5em;" |- ! Language ! data-sort-type="date"| Start date ! data-sort-type="date"| Close date ! Website/notes ! Radio ! TV ! Online |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Afrikaans language|Afrikaans]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 14 May 1939 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 8 September 1957 | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | style="vertical-align: top;" | |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Albanian language|Albanian]] | style="vertical-align: top;" data-sort-value="12 November 1940" | 12 November 1940<br />20 February 1993 | style="vertical-align: top;" data-sort-value="28 February 2011" | 20 January 1967<br />28 February 2011 | style="vertical-align: top;" | [https://www.bbc.co.uk/albanian BBC Albanian Archive] | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | style="vertical-align: top;" | |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Belgian French]] and [[Flemish dialects|Belgian Dutch]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 28 September 1940 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 30 March 1952 | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | style="vertical-align: top;" | |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 7 February 1940 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 23 December 2005 | style="vertical-align: top;" | [https://www.bbc.co.uk/bulgarian BBC Bulgarian Archive] | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Croatian language|Croatian]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 29 September 1991 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 31 January 2006 | style="vertical-align: top;" | [https://www.bbc.co.uk/croatian BBC Croatian Archive] | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} |- style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Hokkien Chinese]] | 1 October 1942 | 7 February 1948 | style="vertical-align: top;" | | style="vertical-align: top;" | | style="vertical-align: top;" | || |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Czech language|Czech]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 31 December 1939 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 28 February 2006 | style="vertical-align: top;" | [https://www.bbc.co.uk/czech BBC Czech Archive] | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Danish language|Danish]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 9 April 1940 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 10 August 1957 | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | style="vertical-align: top;" | |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Dutch language|Dutch]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 11 April 1940 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 10 August 1957 | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | style="vertical-align: top;" | |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Dutch language|Dutch]] for [[Indonesia]] | style="vertical-align: top;" data-sort-value="28 August 1944" | 28 August 1944<br />25 May 1946 | style="vertical-align: top;" data-sort-value="13 May 1951" | 2 April 1945<br />13 May 1951 | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | style="vertical-align: top;" | |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Caribbean English|English for the Caribbean]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 25 December 1976 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 25 March 2011 | style="vertical-align: top;" | [https://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/ BBC Caribbean Archive] | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Finnish language|Finnish]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 18 March 1940 | style="vertical-align: top;" data-sort-value="31 December 1997" | 31 December 1997<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/europe/ |title=BBC World Service Europe |publisher=BBC |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19980520062806/http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/europe/ |archive-date=20 May 1998 |quote=Unfortunately, the Finnish Service was closed on the 31st December 1997.}}</ref> | style="vertical-align: top;" | [https://web.archive.org/web/19970428015437/http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/finnish/index.htm BBC Finnish archived] | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | style="vertical-align: top;" | |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[French language in Canada|French for Canada]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 2 November 1942 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 8 May 1980 | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | style="vertical-align: top;" | |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[French language|French for Europe]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 27 September 1938 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 31 March 1995 | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | style="vertical-align: top;" | |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[South East Asian French|French for South-East Asia]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 28 August 1944 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 3 April 1955 | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | style="vertical-align: top;" | |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[German language|German]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 27 September 1938 | style="vertical-align: top;" data-sort-value="26 March 1999" | 26 March 1999<ref>{{cite web |last=Kremer |first=Guntram |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/german/ |title=Epilog |work=[[BBC German Service]] |language=de |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001109180000/http://www.bbc.co.uk/german/ |archive-date=9 November 2000 |quote=G.K. Der Deutsche Dienst der BBC wurde am 26 MΓ€rz 1999 geschlossen. [G.K. The BBC German service was closed on 26 March 1999.]}}</ref> | style="vertical-align: top;" | [https://web.archive.org/web/19970428015446/http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/german/index.htm BBC German archived] | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | style="vertical-align: top;" | |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Austrian German|German for Austria]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 29 March 1943 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 15 September 1957 | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | style="vertical-align: top;" | |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Greek language|Greek]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 30 September 1939 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 31 December 2005 | style="vertical-align: top;" | [https://www.bbc.co.uk/greek BBC Greek Archive] | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Cypriot Greek|Greek for Cyprus]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 16 September 1940 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 3 June 1951 | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | style="vertical-align: top;" | |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 30 October 1949 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 28 October 1968 | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | style="vertical-align: top;" | |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 5 September 1939 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 31 December 2005 | style="vertical-align: top;" | [https://www.bbc.co.uk/hungarian BBC Hungarian Archive] | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 1 December 1940 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 26 June 1944 | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | style="vertical-align: top;" | |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Italian language|Italian]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 27 September 1938 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 31 December 1981 | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | style="vertical-align: top;" | |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Kazakh language|Kazakh]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 1 April 1995 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 16 December 2005 | style="vertical-align: top;" | [https://www.bbc.co.uk/kazakh/ BBC Kazakh Archive] | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} |- style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Luxembourgish]] | 29 May 1943 | 30 May 1952 | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | style="vertical-align: top;" | |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Macedonian language|Macedonian]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 6 January 1996 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 4 March 2011 | style="vertical-align: top;" | [https://www.bbc.co.uk/macedonian BBC Macedonian Archive] | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | style="vertical-align: top;" | |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Malay language|Malay]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 2 May 1941 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 31 March 1991 | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | style="vertical-align: top;" | |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Maltese language|Maltese]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 10 August 1940 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 31 December 1981 | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | style="vertical-align: top;" | |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 9 April 1940 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 10 August 1957 | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | style="vertical-align: top;" | |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Polish language|Polish]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 7 September 1939 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 23 December 2005 | style="vertical-align: top;" | [https://www.bbc.co.uk/polish BBC Polish Archive] | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[African Portuguese|Portuguese for Africa]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 4 June 1939 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 25 February 2011 | style="vertical-align: top;" | [https://www.bbc.co.uk/portugueseafrica BBC Portuguese for Africa Archive] | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Portuguese language|Portuguese for Europe]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 4 June 1939 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 10 August 1957 | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | style="vertical-align: top;" | |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Romanian language|Romanian]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 15 September 1939 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 1 August 2008 | style="vertical-align: top;" | [https://www.bbc.co.uk/romanian BBC Romanian Archive] | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Slovak language|Slovak]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 31 December 1941 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 31 December 2005 | style="vertical-align: top;" | [https://www.bbc.co.uk/slovak BBC Slovak Archive] | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Slovene language|Slovene]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 22 April 1941 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 23 December 2005 | style="vertical-align: top;" | [https://www.bbc.co.uk/slovene BBC Slovene Archive] | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Swedish language|Swedish]] | style="vertical-align: top;" | 12 February 1940 | style="vertical-align: top;" | 4 March 1961 | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | style="vertical-align: top;" | |- | style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Patagonian Welsh|Welsh for Patagonia, Argentina]] | style="vertical-align: top;" data-sort-value="1 January 1945" | 1945 | style="vertical-align: top;" data-sort-value="31 December 1946" | 1946 | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | style="vertical-align: top;" | |- style="vertical-align: top;" | [[Yugoslav language|Yugoslav]] ([[Serbo-Croatian]]) | 15 September 1939 | 28 September 1991 | style="vertical-align: top;" | | {{Yes}} | style="vertical-align: top;" | | style="vertical-align: top;" | |}
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