Lists of languages
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This page lists published lists of languages.
It also provides an index to Wikipedia list articles listing languages.
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Published lists [edit]
- According to SIL International's Ethnologue: Languages of the World (12th Edition, 1992, ISBN 1-55671-216-2), there are over 6,900 spoken languages.
- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns codes for most languages; see ISO 639
- List of ISO 639-1 codes – two-letter codes (136 major languages)
- List of ISO 639-2 codes – three-letter 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
- Linguasphere Observatory (LS-2010, totalling over 32,800 coded entries & over 70,900 linguistic names)
- IETF language tag
Wikipedia list articles [edit]
Further information: Portal:Contents/Lists
Comprehensive lists [edit]
Lists which are global in scope (all living natural languages would classify for inclusion):
- by name
- List of languages by name (English names)
- List of indigenous language names (native names)
- by phylogenetic relation: List of language families (phylogenetic)
- chronologically: List of languages by first written accounts
- by number of speakers:
- List of languages by writing system
By region [edit]
- Languages of Africa
- Indigenous languages of the Americas
- Languages of Asia
- Languages of Europe
- Languages of Oceania
By special type or property [edit]
Extinct, endangered or revived languages
By status or cultural shpere of influence
- List of lingua francas
- List of official languages (by language name in English)
- List of 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
- List of English-based pidgins
- List of macrolanguages
- List of creoles
- List of mixed languages
- List of sign languages
- List of constructed languages
See also [edit]
- List of writing systems
- List of shorthand systems
- Lists of programming languages
- List of markup languages
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