List of languages
This list of languages is alphabetical by English name. More structured lists are also available:- Language families and languages,
- ISO 639
- List of languages by writing system,
- List of languages by total speakers.
This list deals with particular languages, and includes only natural and constructed languages spoken by humans. For other kinds of information about language see:
- language (for information about language in general)
- sign language (for information about sign language)
- list of programming languages
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A
B
C
- Camunic (extinct)
- Cantonese (Sinitic)
- Carib
- Catalan (Romance)
- Catawba
- Cayuga
- Cebuano (Malayo-Polynesian)
- Ceqli
- Chagatai
- Chamorro
- Chechen
- Cheremis
- Chichewa
- Chorasmian
- Chukchi
- Chuvash
- Cocoma
- Cocopa
- Coptic
- Cornish (Celtic)
- Corsican
- Cree
- Croatian (Slavic)
- Cumbric (Celtic) (extinct)
- Curonian
- Czech (Slavic)
D
E
- Edomite
- Ekspreso
- Elamite (extinct)
- Enets (Yenisey Samoyed) (Samoyed)
- English (Germanic)
- Erzya (Finno-Ugric)
- Esperanto (constructed, based on European languages)
- Estonian (Finno-Ugric)
- Etruscan
- Evenk
F
G
H
I
- Icelandic (Germanic)
- Ido (constructed, reformed version of Esperanto)
- Igbo
- Illyrian
- Ilocano
- Iloko (Malayo-Polynesian)
- Ilonggo (Malayo-Polynesian)
- Interlingua (constructed, based on European languages)
- Interlingue, originally Occidental (constructed, based on European languages)
- Inupiak
- Isan
- Istro-Romanian (Romance)
- Indonesian (Malayo-Polynesian)
- Ingrian
- Irish (Irish Gaelic) (Celtic)
- Irkut
- Italian / Italiano (Romance)
J
K
- Kabyle
- Kafiri
- Kamas (Samoyed)
- Kankonian
- Kannada
- Kaonde
- Karelian (Finno-Ugric)
- Kashmiri
- Kashubian
- Kawi
- Kazakh
- Kelen
- Ket
- Khandeshi
- Khanty (Ostyak) (Finno-Ugric)
- Khmer
- Khowari
- Kinyarwanda
- Kiswahili
- Klingon (constructed)
- Komi (Zyrian) (Finno-Ugric)
- Konkani
- Korean / 한국어
- Korowai
- Krimchak (Judeo-Crimean Tatar)
- Kumauni
- Kurdish
- Kyrgyz
L
- Láadan
- Ladin
- Lahnda
- Lakhota
- Lao
- Lappish
- Latin / Latina
- Latvian (Baltic)
- Lenni Lenape
- Lepontic
- Lingala
- Lithuanian (Baltic)
- Livonian (Finno-Ugric)
- Loglan (constructed)
- Lojban (constructed, based on Loglan)
- Lozi
- Lude
- Lunda
- Luri
- Luvale
- Luxembourgish
- Lydian (Anatolian)
M
- Macedonian (Slavic)
- Macedoromanian (Romance)
- Makasar
- Malagasy
- Malayalam
- Maltese
- Manchurian
- Mandarin (Chinese)
- Mansi (Vogul) (Finno-Ugric)
- Manx (Manx Gaelic)
- Maori
- Marathi
- Mari (Cheremis) (Finno-Ugric)
- Marquesan
- Marshallese
- Mator
- Maya
- Mazandarani
- Meänkieli
- Megleno-Romanian
- Messapian
- Michif
- Minangkabau
- Mobilian
- Mohawk
- Moksha (Finno-Ugric)
- Mon
- Mongolian
N
- Nahuatl
- Nauruan
- Navajo
- Nenets (Yurak) (Samoyed)
- Nepali
- New Kypchak
- Nganasan (Tavgi) (Samoyed)
- Nhengatu
- Nigerian pidgin
- Niuean language
- Northern Sotho
- Norn
- Norwegian
- Novial (constructed, based on European languages)
- N/u
- Nyanja
O
- Occidental, later Interlingue (constructed, based on European languages)
- Occitan
- Ojibwa
- Old Church Slavonic
- Old French
- Old Norse
- Old Prussian (Baltic)
- Olonetsian
- Omagua
- Oriya
- Ormuri
- Oromifa
- Ossetic
- Ostyak
- Ostyak Samoyed
P
- Pahlavi
- Palauan
- Pali
- Papiamento
- Parachi
- Pashto
- Passamaquoddy
- Pennsylvania German
- Permyak
- Persian
- Phrygian (extinct)
- Pictish
- Pirah (Mura)
- Plautdietsch, Mennonite Low German
- Polish (Slavic)
- Portuguese
- Potiguara
- Provençal
- Punjabi
Q
R
- Rajasthani
- Rappahanock
- Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
- Romanian (Romance)
- Romanica (constructed Romance)
- Romansh (Romance)
- Romany (Indo-Iranian)
- Russenorsk
- Russian (Slavic)
S
- Salish
- Sami (Lappish) (Finno-Ugric)
- Samoan
- Sanskrit (Indo-Iranian)
- Saramaccan
- Sardinian (Romance)
- Scanian (Germanic)
- Scots (Lallans) (Includes Ulster Scots (Ullans))
- Scots Gaelic (Scottish Gaelic or Gaelic)
- Selonian
- Seminole
- Serbian (Slavic)
- Serbo-Croatian (Slavic)
- Shina
- Shona
- Sindebele
- Sindarin (constructed)
- Sindhi
- Sinhalese
- Sioux
- Slovak (Slavic)
- Slovene (Slavic)
- Slovio (constructed Slavic)
- Solresol (constructed)
- Somali
- Sorbian (Slavic)
- Spanish (Romance)
- Sranan
- Sumerian (extinct)
- Swabian (Germanic)
- Swahili (Bantu)
- Swedish (Germanic)
- Swiss German (Germanic)
- Sudovian
- Sundanese
T
- Tagalog (Malayo-Polynesian)
- Tahitian
- Tajik
- Talossan
- Talysh
- Tamil
- Tavgi
- Telugu
- Tat
- Tatar, Kazan Tatar
- Teacah'Chi
- Teonaht
- Thai
- Tharu
- Thracian (extinct)
- Tibetan
- Ticonderoga
- Tigre
- Tigrinya
- Tigrignan
- Tocharian A and B
- Tok Pisin
- Toki Pona (constructed pidgin based on sources from around the world)
- Tonga
- Tongan
- Tsimshian
- Tswana
- Tupinamba
- Tupinkin
- Turkish
- Turkmen
- Tuvaluan
- Tuvan
U
- Uatakassí
- Ubykh (Northwest Caucasian)
- Udmurt (Votyak) (Finno-Ugric)
- Ukrainian (Slavic)
- Ulster Scots (Ullans) (The same language as Scots)
- Urdu
- Uripiv
- Ute
- Uzbek
V
- Veps (Finno-Ugric)
- Verdurian (constructed)
- Vietnamese
- Vogul
- Volapük (constructed, based on European languages)
- Vote (Finno-Ugric)
- Votyak
W
X
- Xam
- Xhosa
- !Xu (!Kung) (Khoisan)
Y
Z
Only some major languages are listed here. See List of spoken and sign languages beginning with the letter Z for about 50 more.