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

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

B

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

C

  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

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

E

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

F

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

G

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

H

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

I

  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. Irkut
  18. Irula
  19. Isan
  20. Ishkashimi
  21. Istro-Romanian (Romance)
  22. Italian / Italiano (Romance)
  23. Izhorian (Finno-Ugric)

J

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

K

  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 Takk
  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

  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. Lozi
  23. Lude
  24. Luganda
  25. Lummi
  26. Lunda
  27. Luri
  28. Lushootseed
  29. Lusoga
  30. Luvale
  31. Luwati
  32. Luxembourgish
  33. Lydian (Anatolian)

M

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

N

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

O

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

P

  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. Provenal (Romance)
  31. Pucikwar
  32. Punjabi

Q

  1. Qashqai
  2. Quechua

R

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

S

  1. Salar
  2. Salishan languages
  3. Samaritan Hebrew
  4. Sami (Lappish) (Finno-Ugric)
  5. Samoan
  6. Sandawe
  7. Sangisari
  8. Sanglechi
  9. Sango
  10. Sanskrit (Indo-Iranian)
  11. Santali (Austroasiatic)
  12. Saraiki
  13. Saramaccan
  14. Sardinian (Romance)
  15. Sarikoli
  16. Sasxsek
  17. Savara
  18. Savi
  19. Scanian (Germanic)
  20. Scots (Lallans) (Includes Ulster Scots (Ullans))
  21. Scots Gaelic (Scottish Gaelic or Gaelic)
  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. Sindhi
  42. Sinhalese
  43. Sioux
  44. Sivandi
  45. Skolt Sami
  46. Slavey
  47. Slovak (Slavic)
  48. Slovenian (Slavic)
  49. Soddo
  50. Soi
  51. Somali
  52. Sonsorolese (or Sonsorol, or Sonsoral)
  53. Soqotri
  54. Sora (Austroasiatic)
  55. Sorbian (Slavic)
  56. Southern Sami
  57. South Yukaghir
  58. Spanish (Romance)
  59. Sranan
  60. Sucite
  61. Sudovian
  62. Sumerian (extinct)
  63. Sundanese
  64. Supyire
  65. Surigaonon
  66. Swabian (Germanic)
  67. Swahili (Bantu)
  68. Swati or Siswati
  69. Swedish (Germanic)
  70. Swiss German (Germanic)
  71. Syriac (Semitic)

T

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

U

  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

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

W

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

X

  1. /Xam
  2. Xhosa
  3. Xibe
  4. !X
  5. !Xu (!Kung) (Khoisan)

Y

Only some major languages are listed here. See List of spoken and sign languages beginning with the letter Y for more.
  1. Yaghnobi
  2. Yakut
  3. Yapese
  4. Yazdi
  5. Yazgulami
  6. Yemenite Hebrew
  7. Yiddish
  8. Yidgha
  9. Yorb
  10. Yugh
  11. Yukaghir
  12. Yurats

Z

Only some major languages are listed here. See List of spoken and sign languages beginning with the letter Z for about 50 more.
  1. Zapotec
  2. Zazaki
  3. Zhuang
  4. Zulu
  5. Zuni

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