List of languages
This
list of languages is alphabetical by English name. More structured lists are also available:
Ethnologue lists about 6,800 main languages in its language name index (see the external link) and distinguishes about 41,000 alternate language names and dialects.
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
- Afrikaans
- Ainu
- Akkadian (Semitic) (extinct)
- Albanian
- Aleut
- Algonquin
- AlemÃÂán Coloneiro (Germanic)
- Alsatian (Germanic)
- Amharic
- Anglo-Saxon
- Apache
- A-Pucikwar
- Arabic (Semitic)
- Aragonese
- Aramaic (Semitic)
- Arawak
- Armenian
- Assamese
- Assyrian
- Asturian
- Avestan
- Azerbaijani
B
- Balochi
- Bambara
- Bavarian
- Basque
- Belarusian (Slavic)
- Bemba
- Bengali
- Berber
- BÃÂétÃÂé
- Bhili
- Biafran
- Bihari
- Bikya
- Blackfoot
- Bosnian (Slavic)
- Brahui
- Breathanach
- Breton (Celtic)
- Brithenig
- Bulgarian (Slavic)
- Burmese
C
- Camunic (extinct)
- Cantonese (Chinese)
- Carib
- Catalan (Romance)
- Catawba
- Cayuga
- Cebuano (Malayo-Polynesian)
- Ceqli
- Chagatai
- Chamorro
- Chechen
- Cheremis
- Chichewa
- Chorasmian
- Chukchi
- Chuvash
- Cocoma
- Coptic
- Cornish (Celtic)
- Corsican
- Cree
- Croatian (Slavic)
- Cumbric (Celtic) (extinct)
- Curonian
- Czech (Slavic)
D
- Dacian (extinct)
- Dalmatian
- Danish (Germanic)
- Dargestani
- Dari
- Dida
- Divehi
- Duala
- Dungan
- Dutch (Germanic)
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
- Faeroese
- Farsi
- Fijian
- Filipino
- Finnish (Finno-Ugric)
- Flemish
- French CrÃÂéole
- French (Romance)
- Frisian
- Friulian (Romance)
- Fulania
- Furu
G
- Galician
- Garhwali
- Gaulish
- Gayo
- Ge'ez
- Georgian
- German / Deutsch (Germanic)
- Gilaki
- Gothic (extinct)
- Greek
- Guaraginga
- Guarani
- Gujarati
- Gilyak
- Gwich'in
H
- Haitian creole
- Hausa
- Hawaiian
- Hazaragi
- Hebrew (Semitic)
- Hindi (Indo-Iranian)
- Hittite (Anatolian)
- Hopi
- Hungarian (Finno-Ugric)
- Hutterite German
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
- LÃÂáadan
- 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
- MeÃÂänkieli
- 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
- Phrygian (extinct)
- Pictish
- Pirah (Mura)
- Plautdietsch, Mennonite Low German
- Polish (Slavic)
- Portuguese
- Potiguara
- ProvenÃÂçal
- Punjabi
Q
- Quechua
- Quenya (constructed)
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)
- 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
- 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
- VolapÃÂük (constructed, based on European languages)
- Vote (Finno-Ugric)
- Votyak
W
- Wakhi
- Walloon (Romance)
- Welsh (Celtic)
- Wenedyk
- Wolof
X
- Xam
- Xhosa
- !Xu (!Kung) (Khoisan)
Y
- Yaghnobi
- Yakut
- Yapese
- Yazgulami
- Yenisey Samoyed
- Yiddish
- Yoruba
- Yurak
- Yurats
Z
Only some major languages are listed here. See List of spoken and sign languages beginning with the letter Z for about 50 more.
- Zapotec
- Zazaki
- Zhuang
- Zulu
- Zuñi
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