echo '<span class="menu">';
  $xi = 0;
  $col1 = '<div class="column-one">'; $col2 = '<div class="column-two">';

  foreach(qtranxf_getSortedLanguages() as $language) {
    $alt = $q_config['language_name'][$language].' ('.$language.')';
    $xi++;

    $col_temp .= '<a href="'.qtranxf_convertURL($url, $language, false, true).'"';
      echo ' class="item" title="'.$alt.'">';
    $col_temp .= '<em class="">'.$q_config['language_name'][$language].'</em>';
    $col_temp .= '<span class="language '.$language.'"></span>';
    $col_temp .= '</a>'.PHP_EOL;

    if(i%2 == 0){
      $col1 .= $col_temp;
    } else {
      $col2 .= $col_temp;
    }
  }

  $col1 .= '</div>'; $col2 .= '</div>';
  echo $col1 . PHP_EOL;
  echo $col2 . PHP_EOL;

echo '</span>';