List of languages

This list of languages is alphabetical by English name. More structured lists are also available:

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 languages spoken or signed by humans. For other kinds of information about language see:

A

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  1. Abanyom
  2. Abaza
  3. Abkhaz or Abkhazian
  4. Abujmaria
  5. Adamorobe Sign Language
  6. Adele
  7. Adyghe
  8. Afrikaans
  9. Agul
  10. Aimaq, or Barbari
  11. Aini
  12. Ainu
  13. Akan
  14. Akawaio (Carib)
  15. Akkadian (Semitic) (extinct)
  16. Aklanon
  17. Albanian
  18. Aleut
  19. Algonquin
  20. Alemán Coloneiro (Germanic)
  21. Alsatian (Germanic)
  22. Altay
  23. Alutor
  24. American Sign Language
  25. Amharic
  26. Amorite
  27. Anglo-Saxon
  28. Amdang
  29. Ammonite
  30. Angaur
  31. Anlo
  32. Southern Athabaskan languages
  33. Arabic (Semitic)
  34. Aragonese (Romance)
  35. Aramaic (Semitic)
  36. Arawakan languages
  37. Argobba
  38. Armenian
  39. Arvanitic
  40. Ashkenazi Hebrew
  41. Ashkun
  42. Assamese
  43. Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
  44. Athabaskan
  45. Asi
  46. Asturian (Romance)
  47. Auslan (Signing)
  48. Avar
  49. Avestan
  50. Awadhi
  51. Aymara
  52. Azerbaijani

B

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  1. Badaga
  2. Badeshi
  3. Bahnar (Austroasiatic)
  4. Bajelan
  5. Balochi
  6. Balti
  7. Bambara
  8. Banyumasan
  9. Bashkir
  10. Basque
  11. Bavarian
  12. Beja
  13. Belarusian (Slavic)
  14. Berta
  15. Bemba
  16. Bengali
  17. Beothuk
  18. Berber
  19. Bété
  20. Bhili
  21. Bhojpuri
  22. Biafran or Igbo
  23. Bihari
  24. Bijil Neo-Aramaic (Semitic)
  25. Bikol
  26. Bikya (Furu)
  27. Blackfoot
  28. Boholano (Malayo-Polynesian)
  29. Bohtan Neo-Aramaic (Semitic)
  30. Bokmål
  31. Bolgar
  32. Bonan, also known as Paoan
  33. Bosnian (Slavic)
  34. Brahui (Dravidian)
  35. Breton (Celtic)
  36. British Sign Language
  37. Bua
  38. Bulgarian (Slavic)
  39. Burmese
  40. Burushaski
  41. Buryat

C

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  1. Caluyanon
  2. Camunic (extinct)
  3. Cantonese (Sinitic)
  4. Carib
  5. Catalan (Romance)
  6. Catawba
  7. Cayuga
  8. Cebuano (Malayo-Polynesian)
  9. Chabacano or Chavacano
  10. Chagatai
  11. Chaldean Neo-Aramaic
  12. Chamorro
  13. Chaouia
  14. Chechen
  15. Chemakum
  16. Chenchu
  17. Chenoua
  18. Cherokee
  19. Cheyenne
  20. Chiricahua Apache
  21. Chhattisgarhi
  22. Chichewa
  23. Chipewyan
  24. Chittagonian
  25. Choctaw
  26. Chorasmian
  27. Chukchi
  28. Chulym
  29. Church Slavonic
  30. Chuvash
  31. Cocoma
  32. Cocopa
  33. Coeur d'Alene
  34. Coptic
  35. Cornish (Celtic)
  36. Corsican
  37. Cree
  38. Crimean Tatar or Crimean Turkish
  39. Croatian (Slavic)
  40. Cuman
  41. Cumbric (Celtic) (extinct)
  42. Curonian
  43. Cuyonon
  44. Czech (Slavic)

D

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  1. Dacian (extinct)
  2. Dalecarlian
  3. Dalmatian
  4. Dameli
  5. Danish (Germanic)
  6. Dargestani
  7. Dari (Zoroastrian)
  8. Dari-Persian
  9. Darkhat
  10. Daur, also known as Dagur
  11. Dena'ina
  12. Dhatki
  13. Dida
  14. Dioula or Jula
  15. Dirwali (also known as Gawri or Kalami)
  16. Divehi
  17. Dogri
  18. Dogrib or Tli Cho
  19. Dolgan
  20. Dongxiang
  21. Duala
  22. Dumaki
  23. Dungan
  24. Dutch (Germanic)
  25. Dzhidi
  26. Dzongkha

E

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  1. East Yurghur
  2. Edomite
  3. Egyptian
  4. Elamite (extinct)
  5. Enets (Yenisey Samoyed) (Samoyedic)
  6. English (Germanic)
  7. Erzya (Finno-Ugric)
  8. Esperanto
  9. Estonian (Finno-Ugric)
  10. Etruscan
  11. Even
  12. Evenk
  13. Ewe
  14. Eyak
  15. Extremenian

F

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  1. Faeroese
  2. Fars
  3. Fijian
  4. Filipino
  5. Finnish (Finno-Ugric)
  6. Finnish Sign Language
  7. Fon
  8. French Créole
  9. French (Romance)
  10. French Sign Language
  11. Frisian
  12. Friulian (Romance)
  13. Fulani
  14. Fur

G

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  1. Ga
  2. Gadaba
  3. Gafat
  4. Gagauz
  5. Galician (Romance)
  6. Gangte
  7. Garhwali
  8. Gaulish
  9. Gayo
  10. Gazi
  11. Ge'ez
  12. Gelangali
  13. Gen / Gen-Gbe, Mina
  14. Georgian
  15. German / Deutsch (Germanic)
  16. German Sign Language
  17. Ghomara
  18. Gĩkũyũ (Gikuyu)
  19. Gilaki
  20. Gilbertese (= (I-)Kiribati)
  21. Gondi (Dravidian)
  22. Gorani
  23. Gothic (extinct)
  24. Gowari (also known as Gawarbati or Narsati)
  25. Greek
  26. Guanche
  27. Guaraginga
  28. Guaraní
  29. Gujarati
  30. Gula Iro (Kulaal)
  31. Gurkhali
  32. Gwich'in

H

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  1. Hadza / Hatsa
  2. Haitian creole
  3. Hakka
  4. Han
  5. Harari
  6. Harauti
  7. Harsusi
  8. Haryani
  9. Harzani
  10. Hattic
  11. Hausa
  12. Hawaiian
  13. Hawaii Pidgin Sign Language
  14. Hazaragi
  15. Hebrew (Semitic)
  16. Hertevin (Semitic)
  17. Hiligaynon or Ilonggo
  18. Hindi (Indo-Iranian)
  19. Hittite (Anatolian)
  20. Hixkaryana (Carib)
  21. Hmong
  22. Ho (Austroasiatic)
  23. Hobyót
  24. Hopi
  25. Hulaula (Semitic)
  26. Hungarian (Finno-Ugric)
  27. Hurrian
  28. Hutterite German

I

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  1. Ibibio
  2. Icelandic (Germanic)
  3. Ibanag
  4. Igbo
  5. Illinois
  6. Illyrian
  7. Ilokano or Ilocano (Malayo-Polynesian)
  8. Ilonggo (Malayo-Polynesian)
  9. Inari Sami
  10. Indonesian (Malayo-Polynesian)
  11. Ingrian
  12. Inuktitut
  13. Inupiaq
  14. Inuvialuktun
  15. Iraqw
  16. Irish (Irish Gaelic) (Celtic)
  17. Irish Sign Language
  18. Irkut
  19. Irula
  20. Isan
  21. Ishkashimi
  22. Istro-Romanian (Romance)
  23. Italian / Italiano (Romance)
  24. Izhorian (Finno-Ugric)

J

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  1. Jacaltec
  2. Jalaa
  3. Japanese (日本語)
  4. Javanese
  5. Jibbali
  6. Jicarilla
  7. Juang (Austroasiatic)
  8. Judeo-Crimean Tatar
  9. Jurchen

K

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  1. Kabardian
  2. Kabyle
  3. Kafiri
  4. Kalaallisut or Greenlandic
  5. Kalash
  6. Kalasha-ala, also known as Waigali
  7. Kalmyk
  8. Kalto, also known as Nahali
  9. Kamas (Samoyedic)
  10. Kamchadal, also known as Itelmen
  11. Kamvari
  12. Kankonian
  13. Kannada (Dravidian)
  14. Kaonde
  15. Kapampangan
  16. Karachay-Balkar
  17. Karagas
  18. Karaim
  19. Karakalpak
  20. Karelian (Finno-Ugric)
  21. Kashmiri
  22. Kashubian
  23. Kawi
  24. Kazakh
  25. Kelen
  26. Kemi Sami
  27. Kensiu (Austroasiatic)
  28. Kerek
  29. Ket
  30. Khakas
  31. Khalaj
  32. Kham
  33. Khandeshi
  34. Khanty (Ostyak) (Finno-Ugric)
  35. Khasian (Austroasiatic)
  36. Khazar
  37. Khirwar
  38. Khmer (Austroasiatic)
  39. Khmu (Austroasiatic)
  40. Khowari
  41. Khunsari
  42. Kildin Sami
  43. Kimatuumbi
  44. Kinaray-a
  45. Kinyarwanda
  46. Kiribati (= Kiribatese = Kiribatian)
  47. Kirundi
  48. Kiswahili
  49. Klallam
  50. Kodagu (Dravidian)
  51. Kodava Thakk
  52. Kohistani (also known as Khili)
  53. Kolami (Dravidian)
  54. Komi (Finno-Ugric)
  55. Konda
  56. Konkani
  57. Koraga
  58. Korandje
  59. Korasani
  60. Korean / 한국어
  61. Korku (Austroasiatic)
  62. Korowai
  63. Korwa (Austroasiatic)
  64. Koryak
  65. Kota (Dravidian)
  66. Koyra Chiini
  67. Koy Sanjaq Surat (Semitic)
  68. Koya
  69. Krimchak (Judeo-Crimean Tatar)
  70. Kujarge
  71. Kui (Dravidian)
  72. Kumauni
  73. Kumyk
  74. Kumzari
  75. Kurdish
  76. Kurukh (Dravidian)
  77. Kurumba
  78. Kuvi
  79. Kyrgyz

L

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  1. Laal
  2. Ladakhi
  3. Ladin
  4. Ladino
  5. Lahnda
  6. Lakota (Lakhota)
  7. Lamani, also known as Banjari
  8. Lao
  9. Lappish
  10. Latin / Latina (Romance)
  11. Latvian (Baltic)
  12. Lenni Lenape
  13. Lepontic
  14. Ligbi (also known as Ligby)
  15. Lingala
  16. Lipan
  17. Lishana Deni
  18. Lishan Didan
  19. Lishanid Noshan
  20. Lithuanian (Baltic)
  21. Livonian (Finno-Ugric)
  22. Low Saxon (Germanic)
  23. Lozi
  24. Lude
  25. Luganda
  26. Lummi
  27. Lunda
  28. Luri
  29. Lushootseed
  30. Lusoga
  31. Luvale
  32. Luwati
  33. Luxembourgish
  34. Lydian (Anatolian)

M

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  1. Macedonian (Slavic)
  2. Macedoromanian (Romance)
  3. Magadhi
  4. Mahican
  5. Maithili
  6. Makasar
  7. Malagasy
  8. Malay
  9. Malayalam (Dravidian)
  10. Malaysian Sign Language
  11. Maldivian
  12. Maltese
  13. Malto (Dravidian)
  14. Malvi
  15. Manchurian
  16. Manda
  17. Mandaic
  18. Mandarin (Chinese)
  19. Mandinka
  20. Manipuri
  21. Mansi (Vogul) (Finno-Ugric)
  22. Manx (Manx Gaelic)
  23. Maori
  24. Mapudungun (Mapuche)
  25. Marathi
  26. Mari (Cheremis) (Finno-Ugric)
  27. Maria
  28. Marquesan
  29. Marshallese
  30. Masbatenyo
  31. Martha's Vineyard Sign Language
  32. Mator
  33. Maya
  34. Mayang
  35. Mazandarani
  36. Meänkieli
  37. Megleno-Romanian
  38. Mehri
  39. Menominee
  40. Meroitic
  41. Merya
  42. Mescalero
  43. Mesmes
  44. Messapian
  45. Miami
  46. Michif
  47. Mi'kmaq
  48. Minaean
  49. Minangkabau
  50. Mlahsö
  51. Moabite
  52. Mobilian
  53. Moghol
  54. Mohawk
  55. Mohegan
  56. Moksha (Finno-Ugric)
  57. Mon (Austroasiatic)
  58. Mongolian
  59. Mpre
  60. Muher
  61. Mundari (Austroasiatic)
  62. Munji
  63. Muria
  64. Muromian

N

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  1. Nafaanra
  2. Nagarchal
  3. Náhuatl
  4. Naiki (Dravidian)
  5. Nama
  6. Nanai
  7. Nangalami
  8. Natanzi
  9. Nauruan
  10. Navajo or Navaho
  11. Nayini
  12. Ndebele
  13. Neapolitan (Romance)
  14. Negidal
  15. Nenets (Yurak) (Samoyedic)
  16. Nepali
  17. New Kypchak
  18. New Zealand Sign Language
  19. Nganasan (Tavgi) (Samoyedic)
  20. Ngumba
  21. Nhengatu
  22. Nicaraguan Sign Language
  23. Nicobarese
  24. Niellim
  25. Nigerian pidgin
  26. Niuean
  27. Nivkh (Gilyak)
  28. Nogai
  29. Norfuk
  30. Norn
  31. Northern Sami
  32. Northern Sotho
  33. North Yukaghir
  34. Norwegian
  35. N/u
  36. Nuka, or Nuka-Dora
  37. Nuristani
  38. Nuxalk
  39. Nyabwa
  40. Nyahkur (Austroasiatic)
  41. Nyanja
  42. Nynorsk

O

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  1. Occitan (Romance)
  2. Oirat
  3. Ojibwe
  4. Olcha
  5. Old Nubian language
  6. Old Church Slavonic (Slavic)
  7. Old French (Romance)
  8. Old French Sign Language
  9. Old Norse
  10. Old Prussian (Baltic)
  11. Old South Arabian
  12. Olonetsian (also known as Olonets or Livvi) (Finno-Ugric)
  13. Omagua
  14. Ongota
  15. Oriya
  16. Ormuri
  17. Oroch
  18. Orochen
  19. Orok
  20. Oromifa
  21. Oropom
  22. Ossetic
  23. Ottoman Turkish

P

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  1. Pahari
  2. Pahlavi
  3. Palauan
  4. Pali
  5. Pangasinan
  6. Papiamento
  7. Parachi
  8. Parauk (Austroasiatic)
  9. Parji, also known as Duruwa (Dravidian)
  10. Parya
  11. Pashayi
  12. Pashto
  13. Passamaquoddy
  14. Pecheneg
  15. Pemon (Carib)
  16. Pengo
  17. Pennsylvania German
  18. Persian
  19. Phalura
  20. Phoenician languages
  21. Phrygian (extinct)
  22. Pictish
  23. Piraha (Mura)
  24. Plautdietsch, Mennonite Low German
  25. Polish (Slavic)
  26. Portuguese (Romance)
  27. Potiguara
  28. Pradhan, also known as Pardhan
  29. Prasuni, also known as Wasi-weri
  30. Provençal (Romance)
  31. Pucikwar
  32. Puelche
  33. Punjabi

Q

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  1. Qashqai
  2. Qatabanian
  3. Quebec Sign Language
  4. Quechua

R

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  1. Rajasthani
  2. Rappahanock
  3. Ratagnon
  4. Romanian (Romance)
  5. Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance) (Romance)
  6. Romany (Indo-Iranian)
  7. Romblomanon
  8. Rotokas
  9. Russenorsk
  10. Russian (Slavic)
  11. Russian Sign Language
  12. Ruthenian

S

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  1. Sabaean
  2. Salar
  3. Salishan languages
  4. Samaritan Hebrew
  5. Sami (Lappish) (Finno-Ugric)
  6. Samoan
  7. Sandawe
  8. Sangisari
  9. Sanglechi
  10. Sango
  11. Sanskrit (Indo-Iranian)
  12. Santali (Austroasiatic)
  13. Saramaccan
  14. Sardinian (Romance)
  15. Sarikoli
  16. Savara
  17. Savi
  18. Scanian (Germanic)
  19. Scots (Lallans) (Includes Ulster Scots (Ullans))
  20. Scots Gaelic (Scottish Gaelic or Gaelic)
  21. Selangor Sign Language
  22. Selchuk = Salchuq
  23. Selkup (Ostyak Samoyed) (Samoyedic)
  24. Selonian
  25. Seminole
  26. Semnani
  27. Senaya
  28. Sened
  29. Senhaja de Srair
  30. Sepedi
  31. Sephardi Hebrew
  32. Serbian (Slavic)
  33. Serbo-Croatian (Slavic)
  34. Sesotho
  35. Shahrudi
  36. Shina
  37. Shona
  38. Shor
  39. Shughni
  40. Shumashti
  41. Sicilian (Romance)
  42. Sidamo
  43. Sindhi
  44. Sinhalese
  45. Sioux
  46. Siraiki
  47. Sivandi
  48. Skolt Sami
  49. Slavey
  50. Slovak (Slavic)
  51. Slovenian (Slavic)
  52. Soddo
  53. Soi
  54. Somali
  55. Sonsorolese (or Sonsorol, or Sonsoral)
  56. Soqotri
  57. Sora (Austroasiatic)
  58. Sorbian (Slavic)
  59. Southern Sami
  60. South Yukaghir
  61. Spanish (Romance)
  62. Sranan
  63. Sucite
  64. Sudovian
  65. Sumerian (extinct)
  66. Sundanese
  67. Supyire
  68. Surigaonon
  69. Swabian (Germanic)
  70. Swahili (Bantu)
  71. Swati or Siswati
  72. Swedish (Germanic)
  73. Swiss German (Germanic)
  74. Syriac (Semitic)

T

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  1. Tachelhit (Berber)
  2. Tagalog (Malayo-Polynesian)
  3. Tahitian
  4. Taiwanese Sign Language
  5. Tajik (Indo-Iranian)
  6. Takestani
  7. Talossan
  8. Talysh (Indo-Iranian)
  9. Tamil (Dravidian)
  10. Tanacross
  11. Tangut (extinct)
  12. Tarifit (Berber)
  13. Tat
  14. Tatar, Kazan Tatar
  15. Tausug
  16. Tehuelche
  17. Telugu (Dravidian)
  18. Temiar, Northern Sakai (Austroasiatic)
  19. Teonaht
  20. Tetum
  21. Thai
  22. Tharu
  23. Thracian (extinct)
  24. Tibetan
  25. Ticonderoga
  26. Tigre
  27. Tigrinya
  28. Tigrignan
  29. Tirahi
  30. Tlingit
  31. Tobian
  32. Tocharian A and B
  33. Toda (Dravidian)
  34. Tok Pisin
  35. Tongan
  36. Tokelauan
  37. Trasianka | Трасянка
  38. Tregami
  39. Tshivenda
  40. Tsimshian
  41. Tswana (Setswana)
  42. Tu, also known as Monguor
  43. Tuareg languages (Berber)
  44. Tulu (Dravidian)
  45. Tupinamba
  46. Tupinkin
  47. Turkish
  48. Turkmen
  49. Turoyo (Semitic)
  50. Turvali, also known as Torwali (Indo-Iranian)
  51. Tuvaluan
  52. Tuvan (also known as Tuvin)

U

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  1. Uatakassí
  2. Ubykh (Northwest Caucasian)
  3. Udihe
  4. Udmurt (Votyak) (Finno-Ugric)
  5. Ugaritic
  6. Uighur
  7. Ukrainian (Slavic)
  8. Urdu
  9. Uripiv
  10. Urum
  11. Ute
  12. Uzbek

V

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  1. Vafsi
  2. Veps (Finno-Ugric)
  3. Vietnamese (Austroasiatic)
  4. Visayan or (Bisaya)
  5. Vote (Finno-Ugric)

W

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  1. Waddar
  2. Wakhi
  3. Walloon (Romance)
  4. Waneci
  5. Wapishana
  6. Waray-Waray
  7. Washo
  8. Welsh (Celtic)
  9. West Yurghur
  10. Western Neo-Aramaic (Semitic)
  11. Weyto
  12. Wolof
  13. Wotapuri-katarqalai
  14. Wu (Chinese)

X

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  1. /Xam
  2. Xhosa
  3. Xiang, (Hunanese) or (Hsiang)
  4. Xibe
  5. !Xóõ
  6. !Xu (!Kung) (Khoisan)

Y

Only languages with Wikipedia pages are listed here. See List of languages by name: Y for more.

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  1. Yaaku language
  2. Yaeyama language
  3. Yakut
  4. Yankunytjatjara language
  5. Yanomami
  6. Yanyuwa language
  7. Yapese
  8. Yaqui language
  9. Yauma language
  10. Yazdi
  11. Yemenite Hebrew language
  12. Yeni language
  13. Yevanic language
  14. Yi language
  15. Yiddish
  16. Yokuts language
  17. Yonaguni language
  18. Yorùbá language
  19. Yucatec Maya language
  20. Yucatec Maya Sign Language
  21. Yuchi language
  22. Yugh language
  23. Yukaghir languages
  24. Yupik language
  25. Yurats language
  26. Yurok language

Z

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Only some major languages are listed here. See List of languages by name: Z for about 50 more.

  1. Zapotec
  2. Zazaki
  3. Zhuang
  4. Zulu
  5. Zuni
  6. Zway

See also

External links

See also: List of languages, !Xóõ language, /Xam language, Abanyom language, Abaza language, Abkhaz language