Magento-Home Page-Language drop down not showing up

Checklist:

1. To show a language bar in the header of your website you should have multiple stores(or store views).

If I peek into languages.phtml we get the following code

"getStores())>1): ?>"

which clearly states that the number of stores should be greater than 1

2. Make sure in case you are using 2 websites the "Main Website" default one and the other one(your's) then your's should be default one.

3. Make sure System>>Configuration>>General>>Locale is set to local languages for your respective store views.

4. Make sure language files are installed perfectly and correctly.If not download them from

http://www.magentocommerce.com/translations

and added them in accordance to the folder sequence as in zip file

5. Make sure it is called correctly in page.xml in respective block

6. Flush your cache's

7. Reindex Data