Languages of the world information

cataloging the languages of the world in different ways: Language Category:Lists of languages This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...

is a list of lists of languages. SIL International's Ethnologue: Languages of the World lists over 7,100 spoken and signed languages. The International...

national standard languages may be considered separate languages even though they are largely mutually intelligible, as in the case of Danish and Norwegian...

members of different language communities to communicate. The term may also be used to refer to constructed international auxiliary languages such as...

living languages are spoken in Indonesia. This figure indicates that Indonesia has about 10% of the world's languages, establishing its reputation as the second...

The Austronesian languages (/ˌɔːstrəˈniːʒən/) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia...

over 70 languages spoken as first languages. The majority of Pakistan's languages belong to the Indo-Iranian group of the Indo-European language family...

an official language Number of languages by country World language Languages used on the Internet Extinct language Official languages of the United Nations...

Languages spoken in the Republic of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians...

The Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous...

to 195 languages spoken in the Philippines, depending on the method of classification. Almost all are Malayo-Polynesian languages native to the archipelago...

language varieties belong to the same language or not. The following is a list of groupings of Romance languages, with some languages and dialects chosen to...

first language or languages as children, or learning new languages as they grow up. Because of the increased language contact in the globalizing world, many...

over 500 languages (according to SIL Ethnologue), one of the greatest concentrations of linguistic diversity in the world. The languages of Africa belong...

The Turkic languages are a language family of more than 35 documented languages, spoken by the Turkic peoples of Eurasia from Eastern Europe and Southern...

use Polish Sign Language, which belongs to the German family of Sign Languages. Languages other than Polish that have existed in the region for at least...

languages in China. The predominant language is Standard Chinese, which is based on Beijingese, but there are hundreds of related Chinese languages,...

foreign languages. According to Glottolog, there are 109 languages spoken in Ethiopia, while Ethnologue lists 90 individual languages spoken in the country...

language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that...

mostly out of respect to the indigenous communities that still exist. Most indigenous languages are endangered, with some languages expected to become extinct...

between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Linguistic comparison allows the classification of these languages into several different language families...

has multiple official languages. The Belgian Constitution guarantees, since the country's independence, freedom of language in the private sphere. Article...

population, is home to a wide diversity of languages, from multiple language families: Germanic, Bantu, and the various Khoisan families. When Namibia...

hundred languages spoken in Myanmar (also known as Burma). Burmese, spoken by two-thirds of the population, is the official language. Languages spoken...

The Republic of India is home to several hundred languages. Most Indians speak a language belonging to the families of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European...

of extinct languages List of revived languages Minority language Native American Languages Act of 1990 Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger The Linguists...

Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages...

languages of Bhutan, all members of the Tibeto-Burman language family except for Nepali, which is an Indo-Aryan language, and Bhutanese Sign Language...

The Bikol languages or Bicolano languages are a group of Central Philippine languages spoken mostly in the Bicol Peninsula in the southeastern part of...

The Kipchak languages (also known as the Kypchak, Qypchaq, Qypshaq or the Northwestern Turkic languages) are a sub-branch of the Turkic language family...