Lists of languages
This page lists published lists of languages.
Published lists
- SIL International's Ethnologue: Languages of the World lists over 7,100 spoken and signed languages.
- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns codes for most languages; see ISO 639
- List of ISO 639-1 codes – two-letter codes (184 major languages)
- List of ISO 639-2 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 and groups
- IETF language tag - depends on ISO 639, but provides various expansion mechanisms
- Glottolog
- Linguasphere Observatory (LS-2010, totalling over 32,800 coded entries & over 70,900 linguistic names)
English Wikipedia list 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 (native names)
- by phylogenetic relation: List of language families (phylogenetic)
- by primary language family: List of Afro-Asiatic languages, List of Austronesian languages, List of Indo-European languages, List of Mongolic languages, List of Tungusic languages, List of Turkic languages, List of Uralic languages.
- chronologically: List of languages by first written accounts
- by number of speakers:
- List of languages by number of words according to authoritative dictionaries
- List of languages by writing system
By region
By special type or property
Extinct, endangered or revived languages
By status or cultural sphere of influence
- List of lingua francas
- 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 (includes a list of the 30 or so languages with the most prevalence online)
- List of mutually intelligible languages
Special types of languages
gollark: _ENV IS BASICALLY _G
gollark: They're addicted to pressing the enter key.
gollark: +?
gollark: It's ridiculous. They're already parsing the mkv format (in a more limited form) to play webm, and there's a 30-line patch on the bugtracker to make it able to play mkv, but noooo...
gollark: Another day, another time Firefox's inability to play .mkv files annoys me.
See also
- List of language self-study programs
- List of most commonly learned foreign languages in the United States
- List of linguists
- List of shorthand systems
- List of writing systems
- Lists of dialects and varieties
- Lists of computer languages
- Lists of programming languages
- List of ontology languages
- List of modeling languages
- List of markup languages
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