Index of language articles
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)
- list of programming languages
A
- Afrikaans
- Ainu
- Albanian
- Aleut
- Algonquin
- Amhara
- Amharic
- Anglo-Saxon
- Apache
- A-Pucikwar
- Arabic (Semitic)
- Aragonese
- Aramaic
- Arawak
- Armenian
- Assamese
- Assyrian
- Asturian
- Avestan
- Azerbaijani
B
- Balochi
- Bambara
- Bavarian
- Basque
- Belarusian (Slavic)
- Bemba
- Bengali
- Berber
- Bété
- Bhili
- Biafran
- Bihari
- Bikya
- Blackfoot
- Bosnian (Slavic)
- Brahui
- Breathanach
- Breton
- Brithenig
- Bulgarian (Slavic)
- Burmese
C
- Camunic (extinct)
- Cantonese (Chinese)
- Carib
- Catalan (Romance)
- Catawba
- Cayuga
- Cebuano (Malayo-Polynesian)
- Ceqli
- Chagatai
- Chechen
- Chichewa
- Cocoma
- Cornish
- Corsican
- Croatian (Slavic)
- Cumbric (Celtic) (extinct)
- Czech (Slavic)
D
- Dacian (extinct)
- Dalmatian
- Danish / Dansk (Germanic)
- Dargestani
- Dari
- Dida
- Divehi
- Duala
- Dungan
- Dutch / Nederlands (Germanic)
E
- Ekspreso
- English (Germanic)
- Erzya-Mordvin
- Esperanto (constructed, based on European languages)
- Estonian (Finno-Ugric)
- Etruscan
F
- Faeroese
- Farsi
- Filipino
- Finnish / Suomi (Finno-Ugric)
- Flemish
- French Créole
- French / Français (Romance)
- Frisian
- Friulian
- Fulania
- Furu
G
- Gaelic
- Galician
- Garhwali
- Gaulish
- Gayo
- Ge'ez
- Georgian
- German / Deutsch (Germanic)
- Gilaki
- Gothic
- Greek
- Guaraginga
- Guarani
- Gujarati
H
- Haitian creole
- Hausa
- Hawaiian
- 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)
- Inupiak
- Isan
- Istro-Romanian (Romance)
- Indonesian (Malayo-Polynesian)
- Irish (Irish Gaelic) (Celtic)
- Irkut
- Italian / Italiano (Romance)
J
K
- Kabyle
- Kafiri
- Kankonian
- Kannada
- Kaonde
- Kashmiri
- Kashubian
- Kawi
- Kazakh
- Kelen
- Khandeshi
- Khmer
- Khowari
- Kinyarwanda
- Kiswahili
- Klingon (constructed)
- Konkani
- Korean / 한국어
- Korowai
- Krimchak (Judeo-Crimean Tatar)
- Kumauni
- Kurdish
- Kyrgyz
L
- Láadan
- Ladin
- Lahnda
- Lakhota
- Lao
- Latin / Latina
- Latvian (Baltic)
- Lenni Lenape
- Lithuanian (Baltic)
- Livonian
- Loglan (constructed)
- Lojban (constructed, based on Loglan)
- Lozi
- Lunda
- Luri
- Luvale
- Lydian (Anatolian)
M
- Macedonian (Slavic)
- Macedoromanian (Romance)
- Makasar
- Malagasy
- Malayalam
- Maltese
- Manchurian
- Mandarin (Chinese)
- Manx (Manx Gaelic)
- Maori
- Marathi
- Maya
- Mazandarani
- Meänkieli
- Megleno-Romanian
- Michif
- Minangkabau
- Mobilian
- Mohawk
- Mon
- Mongolian
N
- Nahuatl
- Nauruan
- Navajo
- Nepali
- New Kypchak
- Nhengatu
- Nigerian pidgin
- Norn
- Norwegian / Norsk
- Novial (constructed, based on European languages)
- N/u
- Nyanja
O
- Occidental (constructed, based on European languages)
- Occitan
- Ojibwa
- Old Church Slavonic
- Old French
- Old Norse
- Old Prussian (Baltic)
- Omagua
- Oriya
- Ormuri
- Oromifa
- Ossetic
P
- Pahlavi
- Pali
- Parachi
- Pashto
- Passamaquoddy
- Pennsylvania German
- Phrygian (extinct)
- Pictish
- Pirahã (Mura)
- Plautdietsch, Mennonite Low German
- Polish / Polski (Slavic)
- Portuguese / Português
- Potiguara
- Provencal
- Punjabi
Q
R
- Rajasthani
- Rappahanock
- Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
- Romanian / Româna (Romance)
- Romanica (constructed Romance)
- Romansh (Romance)
- Romany (Indo-Iranian)
- Russenorsk
- Russian / Русский (Slavic)
S
- Saami
- Salish
- Sanskrit (Indo-Iranian)
- Saramaccan
- Sardinian (Romance)
- Scots (Lallans) (Includes Ulster Scots (Ullans))
- Scots Gaelic (Scottish Gaelic or Gaelic)
- 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 / Español (Romance)
- Sranan
- Swahili (Bantu)
- Swedish / Svenska (Germanic)
- Sudovian
- Sundanese
T
- Tagalog (Malayo-Polynesian)
- Tahitian
- Tajik
- Talossan
- Talysh
- Tamil
- Tat
- 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 / Türkçe
- Turkmen
- Tuvaluan
- Tuvan
U
- Uatakassí
- Ubykh (Northwest Caucasian)
- Ukrainian (Slavic)
- Ulster Scots (Ullans) (The same language as Scots)
- Urdu
- Ute
- Uzbek
V
- Veps
- Verdurian
- Vietnamese
- Volapük (constructed, based on European languages)
W
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Z
Only some major languages are listed here, see List of spoken and sign languages beginning with the letter Z for about 50 more