This page is a list of lists of languages.

Published lists

* SIL International's '' Ethnologue: Languages of the World'' lists over spoken and signed languages. *The

International Organization for Standardization The International Organization for Standardization (ISO ) is an international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries. Membership requirements are given in Art ...

(ISO) assigns codes for most languages; see ISO 639 **

List of ISO 639-1 codes ISO 639 is a standardized nomenclature used to classify languages. Each language is assigned a two-letter (639-1) and three-letter ( and ) lowercase abbreviation, amended in later versions of the nomenclature. This table lists all of: * ISO 639-1 ...

– two-letter codes (184 major languages) **

List of ISO 639-2 codes ISO 639 is a set of international standards that lists short codes for language names. The following is a complete list of three-letter codes defined in part two (ISO 639-2) of the standard, including the corresponding two-letter ( ISO 639-1) 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 A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ''ancestral language'' or ''parental language'', called the proto-language of that family. The term "family" reflects the tree model of language origination in hi ...

and groups * IETF language tag - depends on ISO 639, but provides various expansion mechanisms * Glottolog *

Linguasphere Observatory The Linguasphere Observatory (or "the Observatoire", based on its original French and legal title: ''Observatoire Linguistique'') is a non-profit transnational research network, devoted (alongside related programs) to the gathering, study, classi ...

(LS-2010, totalling over 32,800 coded entries & over 70,900 linguistic names)

English Wikipedia list articles

* Index of language articles

Comprehensive lists

Lists which are global in scope (all living natural languages would classify for inclusion): *by country: List of official languages by country and territory *by name:

List of language names This article is a resource of the native names of most of the major languages in the world. These are endonymic glossonyms. Languages A Aari – Aari * Spoken in: Aasáx † – Aasá * Spoken in: Abaza – Aбаза бызшва * Offici ...

(native names) * by phylogenetic relation: List of language families (phylogenetic) ** by primary language family: List of Afro-Asiatic languages,

List of Austronesian languages A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...

, List of Indo-European languages, List of Mongolic languages, List of Tungusic languages,

List of Turkic languages The Turkic languages are a group of languages spoken across Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and Siberia. Turkic languages are spoken as native languages by some 200 million people. Turkic languages by subfamily The number of speak ...

, List of Uralic languages. * chronologically:

List of languages by first written accounts This is a list of languages arranged by age of the oldest existing text recording a complete sentence in the language. It does not include undeciphered scripts, though there are various claims without wide acceptance, which, if substantiated, ...

*by number of speakers: **

List of languages by total number of speakers This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect. Some languages, such as Chinese and Arabic, cover several mutually unintelligible varieties and are sometime ...

List of languages by number of native speakers This article ranks human languages by their number of native speakers. However, all such rankings should be used with caution, because it is not possible to devise a coherent set of linguistic criteria for distinguishing languages in a dialec ...

* List of languages by number of words according to authoritative dictionaries * List of languages by writing system

By region

* Languages of Africa *

Indigenous languages of the Americas Over a thousand indigenous languages are spoken by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. These languages cannot all be demonstrated to be related to each other and are classified into a hundred or so language families (including a large num ...

** List of Native American languages acquired by children ** Languages of North America **

Languages of South America The languages of South America can be divided into three broad groups: * the languages of the (in most cases, former) colonial powers; * many indigenous languages, some of which are co-official alongside the colonial languages; * and various ...

* Languages of Asia **

East Asian languages The East Asian languages are a language family (alternatively ''macrofamily'' or ''superphylum'') proposed by Stanley Starosta in 2001. The proposal has since been adopted by George van Driem. Classifications Early proposals Early proposals of s ...

Languages of South Asia South Asia is home to several hundred languages, spanning the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Maldives and Sri Lanka. It is home to the third most spoken language in the world, Hindi–Urdu; and the sixth m ...

** Languages of Southeast Asia * Languages of Europe *

Languages of Oceania Native languages of Oceania fall into three major geographic groups: * The large Austronesian language family, with such languages as Malay ( Indonesian), Tagalog ( Filipino), and Polynesian languages such as Māori and Hawaiian * The various ...

By special type or property

Extinct, endangered or revived languages * Lists of extinct languages **

List of languages by time of extinction An extinct language may be narrowly defined as a language with no native speakers and no descendant languages. Under this definition, a language becomes extinct upon the death of its last native speaker, the terminal speaker. A language like La ...

* Lists of endangered languages *

List of revived languages A revived language is one that, having experienced near or complete language extinction as either a spoken or written language, has been intentionally revived and has regained some of its former status. The most frequent reason for extinction i ...

Regional language * A regional language is a language spoken in a region of a sovereign state, whether it be a small area, a federated state or province or some wider area. Internationally, for the purposes of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Lan ...

By status or cultural sphere of influence

List of lingua francas This is a list of lingua francas. A lingua franca is a language systematically used to make communication possible between people not sharing a first language, in particular when it is a third language, distinct from both speakers' first languages ...

* List of official languages ** List of official languages by state ** List of official languages by institution * List of the largest languages without official status (major linguistic minorities, several million speakers) *

Languages used on the Internet Slightly over half of the homepages of the most visited websites on the World Wide Web are in English, with varying amounts of information available in many other languages. Other top languages are Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Persian, French, Germ ...

(includes a list of languages with the most prevalence online) * List of mutually intelligible languages Special types of languages * 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 Pidgin English is a non-specific name used to refer to any of the many pidgin languages derived from English. Pidgins that are spoken as first languages become creoles. English-based pidgins that became stable contact languages, and which hav ...

* List of sign languages ** List of sign languages by number of native signers *