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# List of languages

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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.

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

Contents
0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Top of page — See also — External links

## [edit] A

- Afrikaans
- Ainu
- Akkadian (Semitic) (extinct)
- Albanian
- Aleut
- Algonquin
- Alemán Coloneiro (Germanic)
- Alsatian (Germanic)
- Amharic
- Anglo-Saxon
- Apache
- A-Pucikwar
- Arabic (Semitic)
- Aragonese
- Aramaic (Semitic)
- Arawak
- Armenian
- Assamese
- Assyrian
- Asturian
- Avestan
- Aymara
- Azerbaijani

## [edit] B

- Balochi
- Bambara
- Bavarian
- Basque
- Belarusian (Slavic)
- Bemba
- Bengali
- Berber
- Bété
- Bhili
- Biafran
- Bihari
- Bikya
- Blackfoot
- Bosnian (Slavic)
- Brahui
- Breathanach
- Breton (Celtic)
- Brithenig
- Bulgarian (Slavic)
- Burmese

## [edit] C

- Camunic (extinct)
- Chinese
  - Cantonese
- 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)

## [edit] D

- Dacian (extinct)
- Dalmatian
- Danish (Germanic)
- Dargestani
- Dari
- Dida
- Divehi
- Duala
- Dungan
- Dutch (Germanic)

## [edit] 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

## [edit] F

- Faroese
- Farsi
- Fijian
- Filipino
- Finnish (Finno-Ugric)
- Flemish
- French Créole
- French (Romance)
- Frisian
- Friulian (Romance)
- Fulania
- Furu

## [edit] G

- Galician
- Garhwali
- Gaulish
- Gayo
- Ge'ez
- Georgian
- German / Deutsch (Germanic)
- Gilaki
- Gothic (extinct)
- Greek
- Guaraginga
- Guarani
- Gujarati
- Gilyak
- Gwich'in

## [edit] H

- Haitian creole
- Hausa
- Hawaiian
- Hazaragi
- Hebrew (Semitic)
- Hindi (Indo-Iranian)
- Hittite (Anatolian)
- Hopi
- Hungarian (Finno-Ugric)
- Hutterite German

## [edit] 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)

## [edit] J

- Japanese / 日本語
- Javanese
- Judaeo-Spanish

## [edit] 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

## [edit] 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)

## [edit] 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

## [edit] N

- Nahuatl
- Nauruan
- Navajo
- Nenets (Yurak) (Samoyed)
- Nepal Bhasa
- Nepali
- New Kypchak
- Nganasan (Tavgi) (Samoyed)
- Nhengatu
- Nigerian pidgin
- Niuean language
- Northern Sotho
- Norn
- Norwegian
- Novial (constructed, based on European languages)
- N/u
- Nyanja

## [edit] 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

## [edit] P

- Pahlavi
- Palauan
- Pali
- Papiamento
- Parachi
- Pashto
- Passamaquoddy
- Pennsylvania German
- Permyak
- Phrygian (extinct)
- Pictish
- Pirah? (Mura)
- Plautdietsch, Mennonite Low German
- Polish (Slavic)
- Portuguese
- Potiguara
- Provençal
- Punjabi

## [edit] Q

- Quechua
- Quenya (constructed)

## [edit] R

- Rajasthani
- Rappahanock
- Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
- Romanian (Romance)
- Romanica (constructed Romance)
- Romansh (Romance)
- Romany (Indo-Iranian)
- Russenorsk
- Russian (Slavic)

## [edit] S

- Salish
- Sami (Lappish) (Finno-Ugric)
- Samoan
- Sanskrit (Indo-Iranian)
- Saramaccan
- Sardinian (Romance)
- Scots (Lallans) (Includes Ulster Scots (Ullans))
- Scottish (Gaelic or Scottish 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

## [edit] 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

## [edit] U

- Uatakassí
- Ubykh (Northwest Caucasian)
- Udmurt (Votyak) (Finno-Ugric)
- Ukrainian (Slavic)
- Ulster Scots (Ullans) (The same language as Scots)
- Urdu
- Uripiv
- Ute
- Uzbek

## [edit] V

- Veps (Finno-Ugric)
- Verdurian (constructed)
- Vietnamese
- Vogul
- Volapük (constructed, based on European languages)
- Vote (Finno-Ugric)
- Votyak

## [edit] W

- Wakhi
- Walloon (Romance)
- Welsh (Celtic)
- Wenedyk
- Wolof

## [edit] X

- Xam
- Xhosa
- !Xu (!Kung) (Khoisan)

## [edit] Y

- Yaghnobi
- Yakut
- Yapese
- Yazgulami
- Yenisey Samoyed
- Yiddish
- Yoruba
- Yurak
- Yurats

## [edit] Z

- Zapotec
- Zazaki
- Zhuang
- Zulu
- Zuñi

## [edit] External link

- Ethnologue language name index
- Articles and Information on the Languages of the world

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