Lists of languages

It also provides an index to English Wikipedia list articles listing languages.

This page is a list of lists of languages.

## Published lists

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* SIL International's Ethnologue: Languages of the World lists over 7,100 spoken and signed languages.
* The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns codes for most languages; see ISO 639
* List of ISO 639-1 codes – two-letter codes (184 major languages)
* List of ISO 639-2 codes – three-letter codes
* ISO 639 macrolanguage – ISO 639-2 codes used as ISO 639-3 codes
* List of ISO 639-3 codes – three-letter codes, intended to "cover all known natural languages"
* List of ISO 639-5 codes – three-letter codes for language families and groups
* IETF language tag – depends on ISO 639, but provides various expansion mechanisms
* Glottolog
* Linguasphere Observatory (LS-2010, totaling over 32,800 coded entries and over 70,900 linguistic names)

## English Wikipedia list articles

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* Index of language articles

### Comprehensive lists

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Lists which are global in scope (all living natural languages would classify for inclusion):

* by country:
* List of official languages by country and territory
* Number of languages by country
* by name: List of language names (native names)
* by phylogenetic relation: List of language families (phylogenetic)
* by primary language family: List of Afro-Asiatic languages, List of Austronesian languages, List of Indo-European languages, List of Mongolic languages, List of Tungusic languages, List of Turkic languages, List of Uralic languages.
* chronologically: List of languages by first written accounts
* by number of speakers:
* List of languages by total number of speakers
* List of languages by number of native speakers
* List of languages by number of words according to authoritative dictionaries

### By region

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* Languages of Africa
* Indigenous languages of the Americas
* List of Native American languages acquired by children
* Languages of North America
* Languages of South America
* Languages of Asia
* East Asian languages
* Languages of South Asia
* Languages of Southeast Asia
* Languages of Europe
* Languages of Russia
* Languages of Oceania

### By special type or property

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Extinct, endangered or revived languages

* Lists of extinct languages
* List of languages by time of extinction
* Lists of endangered languages
* List of revived languages
* Regional language

### By status or cultural sphere of influence

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* List of lingua francas
* List of official languages
* List of official languages by state
* List of official languages by institution
* Languages used on the Internet (includes a list of languages with the most prevalence online)
* List of mutually intelligible languages

### Special types of languages

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* List of creole languages
* List of mixed languages
* List of pidgins, creoles, mixed languages and cants based on Indo-European languages
* List of English-based pidgins
* List of sign languages
* List of sign languages by number of native signers
* List of constructed languages

## See also

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* List of language self-study programs
* List of most commonly learned foreign languages in the United States
* List of linguists
* List of shorthand systems
* List of writing systems
* Lists of dialects and varieties
* Lists of computer languages
* Lists of programming languages
* List of ontology languages
* List of modeling languages
* List of markup languages
* Omniglot

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Countries and languages lists

Countries

| By official languages|

* Countries by the number of recognized official languages
* Arabic
* Chinese
* Dutch/Afrikaans
* English
* French
* German
* Hindustani
* Italian
* Malay
* Persian
* Portuguese
* Romanian
* Russian
* Spanish
* Tamil

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Endonyms and exonyms|

* Countries and capitals in native languages
* Country names in various languages
* A–C
* D–I
* J–P
* Q–Z
* Cambodia
* China
* Germany
* Iceland
* India
* Indonesia
* Japan
* Korea
* Kosovo
* Myanmar
* Singapore
* Sri Lanka
* Vietnam
* Languages of the European Union

Languages

| By continent
and subregion|

* Africa
* Americas
* North America
* Caribbean
* South America
* Asia
* East Asia
* South Asia
* Southeast Asia
* Europe
* Oceania
* Melanesia
* Micronesia
* Polynesia

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By country|

* Official languages
* by country and territory
* Countries by the number of recognized official languages
* Number of languages

By population|

* By number of native speakers
* Europe
* By number of total speakers
* Languages in censuses

By language family|

* Language families
* List of Indo-European languages
* List of Mongolic languages
* List of Turkic languages
* List of Uralic languages

Language-based
geopolitical
organizations|

* Arab League (Arabic)
* Dutch Language Union (Dutch)
* Commonwealth of Nations (English)
* Latin Union (Romance languages)
* Three Linguistic Spaces
* Francophonie (French)
* Community of Portuguese Language Countries
* Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa (Portuguese)
* Hispanidad (Spanish)
* Organization of Turkic States (Turkic languages)
* International Organization of Turkic Culture (Turkic languages)

See also|

* Lists of languages
* Category:Languages

This article includes a language-related list of lists.

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Nouns of the world's languages

* Phonologies
* Orthographies
* Grammars
* Adjectives
* Determiners
* Nouns
* Prepositions
* Pronouns
* Verbs

* Bulgarian
* English
* German
* Romanian
* Sotho
* Tlingit

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Verbs of the world's languages

* Phonologies
* Orthographies
* Grammars
* Adjectives
* Determiners
* Nouns
* Prepositions
* Pronouns
* Verbs

Indo-European
(proto-language)|

| Germanic
(strong and weak)|

* English
* auxiliary
* modal
* Dutch
* conjugation
* German
* Gothic

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Celtic|

* Irish
* conjugation

Italic|

* Latin
* conjugation
* tenses

Romance|

* Catalan
* conjugation
* auxiliary verbs
* French
* conjugation
* morphology
* Italian
* conjugation
* Occitan
* conjugation
* Portuguese
* conjugation
* Romanian
* Sardinian
* conjugation
* Spanish
* conjugation
* irregularity

Slavic|

* Bulgarian
* conjugation
* Czech
* conjugation
* morphology
* Macedonian
* conjugation
* Slovene

Iranian|

* Persian

Indo-Aryan|

* Hindustani
* Sanskrit

Other|

* Armenian
* Greek
* pure verbs

Uralic|

* Finnish
* conjugation
* Hungarian

Other European|

* Adyghe
* Basque
* Georgian
* conjugation
* Kabardian

Afroasiatic
(Derived stem)|

* Arabic
* Hebrew
* Tigrinya

Niger–Congo|

* Chichewa
* tenses
* Sotho
* deficient verbs

Japonic|

* Japanese
* conjugation
* Kagoshima dialect
* godan and ichidan
* irregular verbs

Other East Asian|

* Korean

Austronesian|

* Ilocano

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Adjectives of the world's languages

* Phonologies
* Orthographies
* Grammars
* Adjectives
* Determiners
* Nouns
* Prepositions
* Pronouns
* Verbs

* English
* German
* Japanese
* Spanish

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Pronouns of the world's languages

* Phonologies
* Orthographies
* Grammars
* Adjectives
* Determiners
* Nouns
* Prepositions
* Pronouns
* Verbs

Indo-European
(proto-language)|

| Germanic|

* English
* personal
* Colognian
* German

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Italic|

| Romance|

* Catalan
* personal
* auxiliary verbs
* French
* personal
* Portuguese
* personal
* Spanish
* object
* personal

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Slavic|

* Bulgarian
* Macedonian
* Slovene

other European|

* Circassian

Japonic|

* Japanese

Sino-Tibetan|

* Burmese
* Cantonese
* Hokkien
* Mandarin

Austroasiatic|

* Vietnamese

other East Asian|

* Korean

others|

* Austronesian personal pronouns
* Gender neutrality in languages with gendered third-person pronouns

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Determiners of the world's languages

* Phonologies
* Orthographies
* Grammars
* Adjectives
* Determiners
* Nouns
* Prepositions
* Pronouns
* Verbs

* English
* articles
* French
* Spanish

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Adpositions of the world's languages

* Phonologies
* Orthographies
* Grammars
* Adjectives
* Adpositions
* Determiners
* Nouns
* Pronouns
* Verbs

* English
* Korean
* Latvian
* Spanish

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