List of languages by name

list entries below are alphabetized by the name the language goes by in its article; inclusion is arbitrary. this should be fixed.

This is a partial list of natural languages.

Ethnologue lists about 7,105 main languages in its language name index in its 2013 edition and distinguishes about 39,491 alternate language names and dialects. The languages are presented hierarchically in "families". The natures of these families differ significantly, some group several hundred individual languages, others include just a small number of closely related dialects. In total, Ethnologue classifies of the order of 120 such families. Two of these have more than a thousand entries Niger-Congo (1532, in many cases the validity of the grouping is uncertain or disputed) and Austronesian (1257). Another three have more than 400 entries: Trans-New Guinea (477, a hypothetical grouping of Papuan languages), Sino-Tibetan (449), Indo-European (439). Note that a larger number of entries does not necessarily reflect a more diverse group; it may also be due to a more detailed knowledge of the group (an artefact of the distribution of linguistic research). Besides the "families", Ethnologue groups 129 languages as either a language isolate or as "unclassified" (association unknown or disputed). Also not in "families" are creoles (82) and mixed languages (23), and the separate category of sign languages (130).

For a more limited published list of languages, see ISO 639-1 (codes for 136 major languages). For a more inclusive list, see ISO 639-3 (list of ISO 639-3 codes).

The enumeration of languages and dialects can easily be taken into the five-digit range. The Linguasphere Observatory has a database (LS-2010) with more than 32,800 coded entries and more than 70,900 linguistic names.

A

1. Antekish (Antekish)
2. 'Are'are (Malayo-Polynesian)
3. 'Auhelawa (Malayo-Polynesian)
4. A'Tong (Tibeto-Burman)
5. Aari (Omotic)
6. Abanyom (Bantu)
7. Abaza (Northwest Caucasian)
8. Abkhaz or Abkhazian (Northwest Caucasian)
9. Abujmaria (Dravidian)
10. Acehnese (Malayo-Polynesian)
11. Adamorobe Sign Language (Signing)
12. Adele (Kwa)
13. Adyghe (Northwest Caucasian)
14. Afar (Cushitic)
15. Afrikaans (Germanic)
16. Afro-Seminole Creole (English-based creole)
17. Aimaq or Barbari (Iranian)
18. Aini (Turkic)
19. Ainu (language isolate)
20. Akan (Kwa)
21. Akawaio (Carib)
22. Aklanon (Malayo-Polynesian)
23. Albanian (Indo-European)
24. Aleut (Eskimo–Aleut)
25. Algonquin (Algonquian)
26. Alsatian (Germanic)
27. Altay (Turkic)
28. Alutor (Chukotko-Kamchatkan)
29. American Sign Language (Signing)
30. Amharic (Semitic)
31. Anda (Khoisan)
32. Amdang (Nilo-Saharan)
33. Angika (Indo-Aryan)
34. Anyin (Kwa)
35. Ao (Tibeto-Burman)
36. A-Pucikwar (Andamanese)
37. Arabic (Semitic)
38. Aragonese (Romance)
39. Aramaic (Semitic)
40. Are (Malayo-Polynesian)
41. Argobba (Semitic)
42. Aromanian or Macedo-Romanian (Romance)
43. Armenian (Indo-European)
44. Arvanitic (Indo-European)
45. Ashkun (Indo-Iranian)
46. Assamese (Indo-Iranian)
47. Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (Semitic)
48. Ateso or Teso (Nilotic)
49. Asi (Malayo-Polynesian)
50. Asturian (Romance)
51. Auslan (Signing)
52. Austro-Bavarian (Germanic)
53. Avar (Northeast Caucasian)
54. Avestan (Indo-Iranian)
55. Awadhi (Indo-Iranian)
56. Aymara (Aymaran)
57. Azerbaijani (Turkic)

B

1. Badaga (Dravidian)
2. Badeshi (Indo-Iranian)
3. Bahnar (Austroasiatic)
4. Balinese (Malayo-Polynesian)
5. Balochi (Indo-Iranian)
6. Balti (Tibeto-Burman)
7. Bambara or Bamanankan (Mande)
8. Banjar (Malayo-Polynesian)
9. Banyumasan (Malayo-Polynesian)
10. Bartangi (Iranian)
11. Basaa (Bantu)
12. Bashkardi (Iranian)
13. Bashkir (Turkic)
14. Basque (Isolated)
15. Batak Karo (Malayo-Polynesian)
16. Batak Toba (Malayo-Polynesian)
17. Bats (North Caucasian)
18. Beja (Cushitic)
19. Belarusian (Slavic)
20. Belhare (Tibeto-Burman)
21. Berta (Nilo-Saharan)
22. Bemba (Bantu)
23. Bengali (Indo-Aryan)
24. Bezhta (Northeast Caucasian)
25. Berber (Afro-Asiatic)
26. Betawi (Malayo-Polynesian)
27. Bete (Niger–Congo)
28. Bété (Niger–Congo)
29. Bhili (Indo-Aryan)
30. Bhojpuri (Indo-Aryan)
31. Bijil Neo-Aramaic (Semitic)
32. Bikol (Malayo-Polynesian)
33. Bikya or Furu (Bantu)
34. Bissa (Mande)
35. Blackfoot (Algonquian)
36. Boholano (Malayo-Polynesian)
37. Bohtan Neo-Aramaic (Semitic)
38. Bonan or Paoan (Mongolic)
39. Bororo (Bororoan)
40. Bodo (Bodo)
41. Bosnian (Slavic)
42. Brahui (Dravidian)
43. Breton (Celtic)
44. British Sign Language (Signing)
45. Bua (Niger–Congo)
46. Buginese (Malayo-Polynesian)
47. Bukusu (Bantu)
48. Bulgarian (Slavic)
49. Bunjevac (Slavic)
50. Burmese (Tibeto-Burman)
51. Burushaski (language isolate)
52. Buryat (Mongolic)

C

1. Caluyanon or Caluyanun (Malayo-Polynesian)
2. Cantonese (Sinitic)
3. Catalan (Romance)
4. Cayuga (Iroquoian)
5. Cebuano (Malayo-Polynesian)
6. Chabacano or Chavacano (Creole)
7. Chaga or Kichagga (Bantu)
8. Chakma (Indo-Aryan)
9. Chaldean Neo-Aramaic (Semitic)
10. Chamorro (Malayo-Polynesian)
11. Chaouia or Tachawit (Berber)
12. Chechen (Northeast Caucasian)
13. Chenchu (Dravidian)
14. Chenoua (Berber)
15. Cherokee (Iroquoian)
16. Cheyenne (Algonquian)
17. Chhattisgarhi (Indo-Aryan)
18. Chickasaw (Muskogean)
19. Chintang or Chhintang (Tibeto-Burman)
20. Chilcotin (Athabaskan)
21. Chinese (Sinitic)
22. Chiricahua or Mescalero-Chiricahua Apache (Athabaskan)
23. Chichewa or Nyanja (Bantu)
24. Chipewyan (Athabaskan)
25. Chittagonian (Indo-Aryan)
26. Choctaw (Muskogean)
27. Chorasmian or Khwarezmian (Iranian)
28. Chukchi or Chukot (Chukotko-Kamchatkan)
29. Chulym (Turkic)
30. Church Slavonic (Slavic)
31. Chuukese or Trukese (Malayo-Polynesian)
32. Chuvash (Turkic)
33. Cocoma or Cocama (Tupian)
34. Cocopa (Hokan)
35. Coeur d’Alene (Salishan)
36. Comanche (Uto-Aztecan)
37. Comorian (Bantu)
38. Cornish (Celtic) (revived)
39. Corsican (Romance)
40. Cree (Algonquian)
41. Crimean Tatar or Crimean Turkish (Turkic)
42. Croatian (Slavic)
43. Cuyonon (Malayo-Polynesian)
44. Czech (Slavic)

D

1. Dagbani (Gur)
2. Dahlik (Semitic)
3. Dalecarlian (Germanic)
4. Dameli (Indo-Aryan)
5. Danish (Germanic)
6. Dargin (Northeast Caucasian)
7. Dari (Zoroastrian) (Iranian)
8. Dari-Persian (Iranian)
9. Daur or Dagur (Mongolic)
10. Dena'ina or Tanaina (Athapaskan)
11. Dhatki (Indo-Aryan)
12. Dhivehi or Maldivian (Indo-Aryan)
13. Dida (Kru)
14. Dioula or Jula (Mande)
15. Dogri (Indo-Aryan)
16. Dogrib or Tli Cho (Athapaskan)
17. Dolgan (Turkic)
18. Domaaki or Dumaki (Indo-Aryan)
19. Dongxiang or Santa (Mongolic)
20. Duala (Bantu)
21. Dungan (Sinitic)
22. Dutch (Germanic)
23. Dzhidi or Judeo-Persian (Iranian)
24. Dzongkha (Tibeto-Burman)

E

1. Eastern Yugur (Mongolic)
2. Egyptian Arabic (Semitic)
3. Ekoti (Bantu)
4. Enets or Yenisey Samoyed (Samoyedic)
5. English (Germanic)
6. Erzya (Uralic)
7. Esperanto (planned language)
8. Estonian (Uralic)
9. Even (Tungusic)
10. Evenk or Evenki (Tungusic)
11. Ewe (Volta–Niger)
12. Extremaduran (Romance)

F

1. Faeroese (Germanic)
2. Fang (Bantu)
3. Fijian (Malayo-Polynesian)
4. Filipino (Malayo-Polynesian)
5. Finnish (Uralic)
6. Finnish Sign Language (Signing)
7. Flemish language (Belgium)
8. Fon (Volta–Niger)
9. Franco-Provençal or Arpitan (Romance)
10. French (Romance)
11. French Sign Language (Signing)
12. Frisian, North (Germanic)
13. Frisian, Saterland (Germanic)
14. Frisian, West (Germanic)
15. Friulian (Romance)
16. Fula or Fulfulde or Fulani (Senegambian)
17. Fur (Nilo-Saharan)

G

1. Ga (Kwa)
2. Gadaba (Dravidian)
3. Gagauz (Turkic)
4. Galician (Romance)
5. Gan (Sinitic)
6. Ganda (Bantu)
7. Gangte (Tibeto-Burman)
8. Garhwali (Indo-Aryan)
9. Gayo (Malayo-Polynesian)
10. Gen or Gẽ or Mina (Volta–Niger)
11. Georgian (South Caucasian)
12. German (Germanic)
13. German Sign Language (Signing)
14. Gikuyu or Kikuyu (Bantu)
15. Gilbertese or Kiribati (Malayo-Polynesian)
16. Gileki (Iranian)
17. Goaria (Indo-Aryan)
18. Gondi (Dravidian)
19. Gorani or Gurani (Iranian)
20. Gawar-Bati or Gowari or Narsati (Indo-Aryan)
21. Greek (Indo-European)
22. Guaraní (Tupian)
23. Guinea-Bissau Creole (Portuguese-based creole)
24. Gujarati (Indo-Aryan)
25. Gula Iro or Kulaal (Adamawa)
26. Gullah or Sea Island Creole English (English-based creole)
27. Gusii (Bantu)
28. Gwichʼin (Athabaskan)

H

1. Hadza or Hatsa (Language isolate)
2. Haida or Masset (Na-Dené)
3. Haitian Creole (French-based creole)
4. Hakka (Sinitic)
5. Hän (Athabaskan)
6. Harari (Semitic)
7. Harauti (Indo-Aryan)
8. Harsusi (Semitic)
9. Haryanavi (Indo-Aryan) (a dialect of Hindi)
10. Harzani (Iranian)
11. Hausa (Afro-Asiatic)
12. Havasupai or Upland Yuman (Hokan)
13. Hawaiian (Malayo-Polynesian)
14. Hawaii Pidgin Sign Language (Signing)
15. Hazaragi (Iranian) (a dialect of Persian)
16. Hebrew (Semitic)
17. Herero (Bantu)
18. Hértevin (Semitic)
19. Hiligaynon (Malayo-Polynesian)
20. Hindi (Indo-Aryan)
21. Hinukh (Northeast Caucasian)
22. Hiri Motu (Motu-based Pidgin)
23. Hixkaryana (Carib)
24. Hmong (Hmong–Mien)
25. Ho (Austroasiatic)
26. Hobyót (Semitic)
27. Hopi (Uto-Aztecan)
28. Hulaulá (Semitic)
29. Hungarian (Uralic)
30. Hutterite German (Germanic)

I

1. Ibibio (Benue–Congo)
2. Iban (Malayo-Polynesian)
3. Ibanag (Malayo-Polynesian)
4. Icelandic (Germanic)
5. Ifè (Volta–Niger)
6. Igbo or Ibo or Biafra (Volta–Niger)
7. Ikalanga or Kalanga (Bantu)
8. Ili Turki (Turkic)
9. Ilokano or Ilocano (Malayo-Polynesian)
10. Inari Sami (Uralic)
11. Indonesian (Malayo-Polynesian)
12. Ingrian or Izhorian (Uralic)
13. Ingush (Northeast Caucasian)
14. Inuktitut (Eskimo–Aleut)
15. Inupiaq (Eskimo–Aleut)
16. Inuvialuktun (Eskimo–Aleut)
17. Iraqw (Cushitic)
18. Irish or Irish Gaelic (Celtic)
19. Irish Sign Language (Signing)
20. Irula (Dravidian)
21. Isan or Northeastern Thai (Tai–Kadai)
22. Ishkashimi or Ishkashmi (Iranian)
23. Istro-Romanian (Romance)
24. Italian (Romance)
25. Itelmen or Kamchadal (Chukotko-Kamchatkan)

J

1. Jacaltec or Jakalteko (Mayan)
2. Jalaa (unclassified, possibly Niger–Congo)
3. Japanese (Japonic)
4. Jaqaru (Aymaran)
5. Jarai (Malayo-Polynesian)
6. Javanese (Malayo-Polynesian)
7. Jibbali or Shehri (Semitic)
8. Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (Aramaic)
9. Jicarilla Apache (Athabaskan)
10. Juang (Austroasiatic)
11. Jurchen (Tungusic)

K

1. Kabardian (Northwest Caucasian)
2. Kabyle (Berber)
3. Kachin or Jingpo (Tibeto-Burman)
4. Kalaallisut or Greenlandic (Eskimo–Aleut)
5. Kalami or Gawri or Dirwali (Indo-Aryan)
6. Kalasha (Indo-Aryan)
7. Kalmyk or Oirat (Mongolic)
8. Kalto or Nahali (Indo-Aryan)
9. Kankanai or Kankanaey (Malayo-Polynesian)
10. Kannada (Dravidian)
11. Kaonde or Chikaonde (Bantu)
12. Kapampangan (Malayo-Polynesian)
13. Karachay-Balkar (Turkic)
14. Karagas (Turkic)
15. Karaim (Turkic)
16. Karakalpak (Turkic)
17. Karelian (Uralic)
18. Kashmiri (Indo-Aryan)
19. Kashubian (Slavic)
20. Kazakh (Turkic)
21. Kerek (Paleosiberian)
22. Ket (Chukotko-Kamchatkan)
23. Khakas (Turkic)
24. Khalaj (Turkic)
25. Kham or Sheshi (Tibeto-Burman)
26. Khandeshi (Indo-Aryan)
27. Khanty or Ostyak (Uralic)
28. Khasi (Austroasiatic)
29. Khitan (Mongolic)
30. Khmer (Austroasiatic)
31. Khmu (Austroasiatic)
32. Khowar (Indo-Aryan)
33. Kildin Sami (Finnic)
34. Kimatuumbi (Bantu)
35. Kinaray-a or Hiraya (Malayo-Polynesian)
36. Kinyarwanda (Bantu)
37. Kirombo (Bantu)
38. Kirundi (Bantu)
39. Kivunjo (Bantu)
40. Klallam or Clallam (Salishan)
41. Kodava Takk or Kodagu or Coorgi (Dravidian)
42. Kohistani or Khili (Indo-Aryan)
43. Kolami (Dravidian)
44. Komi or Komi-Zyrian (Uralic)
45. Konkani (Indo-Aryan)
46. Kongo or Kikongo (Bantu)
47. Koraga (Dravidian)
48. Korandje (Nilo-Saharan)
49. Korean (isolated)
50. Korku (Austroasiatic)
51. Korowai (Trans–New Guinea)
52. Korwa (Austroasiatic)
53. Koryak (Chukotko-Kamchatkan)
54. Kosraean (Malayo-Polynesian)
55. Kota (Dravidian)
56. Koyra Chiini or Western Songhay (Nilo-Saharan)
57. Koy Sanjaq Surat (Semitic)
58. Koya (Dravidian)
59. Krymchak or Judeo-Crimean Tatar (Turkic)
60. Kujarge (unclassified, perhaps Chadic)
61. Kui (Dravidian)
62. Kumauni (Indo-Aryan)
63. Kumyk (Turkic)
64. Kumzari (Iranian)
65. ǃKung (Khoisan)
66. Kurdish (Iranian)
67. Kurukh or Kurux (Dravidian)
68. Kusunda (isolate)
69. Kutenai or Kootenay or Ktunaxa (isolated)
70. Kwanyama or Ovambo (Bantu)
71. Kxoe (Khoisan)
72. Kyrgyz or Kirghiz (Turkic)

L

1. Laal (unclassified)
2. Ladakhi (Tibeto-Burman)
3. Ladin (Romance)
4. Ladino or Judeo-Spanish (Romance)
5. Laki (Iranian)
6. Lakota or Lakhota or Teton (Siouan)
7. Lambadi or Lamani or Banjari (Indo-Aryan)
8. Lao or Laotian (Tai–Kadai)
9. Larestani (Iranian)
10. Latin (Latino-Faliscan) (liturgical language)
11. Latvian (Baltic)
12. Laz or Lazuri (South Caucasian)
13. Leonese (Romance)
14. Lezgi or Agul (Northeast Caucasian)
15. Ligbi or Ligby (Mande)
16. Limburgish (Germanic)
17. Lingala (Bantu)
18. Lipan Apache (Athabascan)
19. Lisan al-Dawat (Indo-Aryan)
20. Lishana Deni (Semitic)
21. Lishanid Noshan or Lishana Didan (Semitic)
22. Lithuanian (Baltic)
23. Livonian or Liv (Uralic)
24. Lombard (Romance)
25. Lotha (Tibeto-Burman)
26. Low German or Low Saxon (Germanic)
27. Lower Sorbian (Slavic)
28. Lozi or Silozi (Bantu)
29. Ludic or Ludian (Uralic)
30. Lunda or Chilunda (Bantu)
31. Luri (Iranian)
32. Lushootseed (Salishan)
33. Lusoga or Soga (Bantu)
34. Luvale (Bantu)
35. Luwati (Indo-Iranian)
36. Luxembourgish (Germanic)

M

1. Macedonian (Slavic)
2. Magadhi (Indo-Aryan)
3. Maguindanao (Malayo-Polynesian)
4. Maithili (Indo-Aryan)
5. Makasar (Malayo-Polynesian)
6. Makhuwa or Makua (Bantu)
7. Makhuwa-Meetto (Bantu)
8. Malagasy (Malayo-Polynesian)
9. Malay (Malayo-Polynesian)
10. Malayalam (Dravidian)
11. Malaysian Sign Language (Signing)
12. Maltese (Semitic)
13. Malto or Sauria Paharia (Dravidian)
14. Malvi or Malavi or Ujjaini (Indo-Aryan)
15. Mam (Mayan)
16. Manchu (Tungusic)
17. Mandaic (Semitic)
18. Mandarin (Sinitic)
19. Mandinka (Mande)
20. Mansi or Vogul (Uralic)
21. Manx (Celtic)
22. Manyika (Bantu)
23. Maori (Malayo-Polynesian)
24. Mapudungun or Mapuche (isolated)
25. Maranao (Malayo-Polynesian)
26. Marathi (Indo-Aryan)
27. Mari or Cheremis (Uralic)
28. Maria (Dravidian)
29. Marquesan (Malayo-Polynesian)
30. Marshallese or Ebon (Malayo-Polynesian)
31. Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (Signing)
32. Masaba (Bantu)
33. Masbatenyo or Minasbate (Malayo-Polynesian
34. Meitei or Manipuri or Meithei (Tibeto-Burman)
35. Mauritian Creole or Morisyen (French-based creole)
36. Maya (Mayan)
37. Mazandarani or Tabari(Iranian)
38. Meänkieli or Tornedalen Finnish (Uralic)
39. Megleno-Romanian (Romance)
40. Megrelian or Mingrelian (South Caucasian)
41. Mehri or Mahri (Semitic)
42. Menominee (Algonquian)
43. Mentawai (Malayo-Polynesian)
44. Meroitic (unclassified, maybe Nilo-Saharan or isolated)
45. Mescalero Apache (Athabaskan)
46. Meru or Kimeru (Bantu)
47. Michif (mixed, French and Cree based)
48. Mikasuki or Miccosukee (Muskogean)
49. Mi'kmaq or Micmac (Algonquian)
50. Minangkabau (Malayo-Polynesian)
51. Mirandese (Romance)
52. Mobilian Jargon (pidgin, Choctaw and French based)
53. Moghol (Mongolic)
54. Mohawk (Iroquoian)
55. Moksha (Uralic)
56. Molengue (Bantu)
57. Mon (Austroasiatic)
58. Mongolian (Mongolic)
59. Mono (Ubangian)
60. Mono (Uto-Aztecan)
61. Mono (Malayo-Polynesian)
62. Montagnais (Algonquian)
63. Montenegrin (Slavic)
64. Motu (Malayo-Polynesian)
65. Muher (Semitic)
66. Mundari (Austroasiatic)
67. Munji (Iranian)
68. Muria (Dravidian)

N

1. Nafaanra (Senufo)
2. Nagarchal (Dravidian)
3. Nahuatl (Uto-Aztecan)
4. Nama (Khoisan)
5. Nanai (Tungusic)
6. Nauruan (Malayo-Polynesian)
7. Navajo or Navaho (Na-Dené)
8. Ndau or Southeast Shona (Bantu)
9. Ndebele (Bantu)
10. Ndonga (Bantu)
11. Neapolitan (Romance)
12. Negidal (Tungusic)
13. Nenets or Yurak (Samoyedic)
14. Nepal Bhasa or Newari (Tibeto-Burman)
15. Nepali (Indo-Aryan)
16. New Zealand Sign Language (Signing)
17. Nihali or Nahali (isolated)
18. Nganasan or Tavgi (Samoyedic)
19. Ngumba (Bantu)
20. Nheengatu or Geral or Modern Tupí (Tupian)
21. Nias
22. Nicaraguan Sign Language (Signing)
23. Niellim (Adamawa)
24. Nigerian Pidgin (pidgin, English-based)
25. Nisenan (Penutian) (Maiduan)
26. Niuean or Niue (Malayo-Polynesian)
27. Nivkh or Gilyak (isolated)
28. Nogai (Turkic)
29. Norfuk or Norfolk or Pitcairn-Norfolk (cant, English-Tahitian based)
30. Norman or Norman-French (Romance)
31. Northern Sami (Uralic)
32. Northern Sotho or Sepedi (Bantu)
33. Northern Straits Salish) (Salishan)
34. Northern Yukaghir (Yukaghir)
35. Norwegian (Bokmål, Nynorsk, Riksmål) (Germanic)
36. Nuer (Nilotic)
37. Nuxálk or Bella Coola (Salishan)
38. Nyabwa (Kru)
39. Nyah Kur (Austroasiatic)
40. Nyangumarta (Pama–Nyungan)
41. Nyoro (Bantu)
42. Nǀu (Khoisan)

O

1. Occitan or Provençal (Romance)
2. Ojibwe or Ojibwa or Chippewa (Algonquian)
3. Okinawan (Japonic)
4. Olonets Karelian or Liv or Livvi (Uralic)
5. Omagua (Tupian)
6. Ongota (Afro-Asiatic)
7. Oriya (Indo-Aryan)
8. Ormuri (Iranian)
9. Oroch (Tungusic)
10. Orok (Tungusic)
11. Oromo or Afaan Oromoo (Cushitic)
12. Ossetic or Ossetian (Iranian)

P

1. Páez or Nasa Yuwe (isolated)
2. Palauan (Malayo-Polynesian)
3. Pangasinan (Malayo-Polynesian)
4. Papiamento or Papiamentu (Portuguese-based creole)
5. Parachi (Iranian)
6. Parya (Indo-Aryan)
7. Pashto or Pushto or Pashtu (Iranian)
8. Pennsylvania Dutch or Pennsylvania German (Germanic)
9. Persian or farsi, as it is referred to in the Persian language (Iranian)
10. Phalura (Indo-Aryan)
11. Phuthi (Bantu)
12. Picard (Romance)
13. Pirahã (Mura)
14. Plautdietsch or Mennonite Low German (Germanic)
15. Polish (Slavic)
16. Portuguese (Romance)
17. Pothohari or Pahari-Potwari (Indo-Aryan)
18. Pradhan or Pardhan (Dravidian)
19. Puelche (isolated)
20. Puma (Tibeto-Burman)
21. Punjabi or Panjabi or Gurmukhi (Indo-Aryan)

Q

1. Qashqai or Ghashghai (Turkic)
2. Quebec Sign Language (Signing)
3. Quechua (Quechuan)

R

1. Rajasthani (Indo-Aryan)
2. Ratagnon or Datagnon or Latagnun (Malayo-Polynesian)
3. Réunion Creole or Bourbonnais (French-based creole)
4. Romanian (Romance)
5. Romansh or Rhaeto-Romance (Romance)
6. Romany (Indo-Iranian)
7. Romblomanon (Malayo-Polynesian)
8. Rotokas (East Papuan)
9. Runyankole language or Nyankore (Bantu)
10. Russian (Slavic)
11. Russian Sign Language (Signing)
12. Ruthenian or Rusyn or Carpathian (Slavic)

S

1. Salar (Turkic)
2. Samoan (Malayo-Polynesian)
3. Sandawe (Khoisan)
4. Sango (Ngbandi-based creole)
5. Sanskrit (Indo-Aryan) (liturgical language)
6. Santali (Austroasiatic)
7. Sara (Malayo-Polynesian)
8. Saraiki or Seraiki or Siraiki Southern Punjabi (Indo-Aryan)
9. Saramaccan (English-based creole)
10. Sardinian (Romance)
11. Sarikoli (Iranian)
12. Saurashtra or Sourashtra (Indo-Aryan)
13. Savara (Dravidian)
14. Savi (Indo-Aryan)
15. Sawai (Malayo-Polynesian)
16. Scots or Ulster Scots or Hiberno-Scots or Ullans (Germanic)
17. Scots Gaelic or Scottish Gaelic or Gaidhlig or Gaelic (Celtic)
18. Selangor Sign Language (Signing)
19. Selkup or Ostyak Samoyed (Samoyedic)
20. Semnani (Iranian)
21. Senaya (Semitic)
22. Serbian (Slavic)
23. Serbo-Croatian (Slavic)
24. Sesotho (Bantu)
25. Seto or Setu (Uralic)
26. Seychellois Creole (French-based creole)
27. Shimaore (Bantu)
28. Shina (Indo-Aryan)
29. Shona (Bantu)
30. Shor (Turkic)
31. Shoshoni (Uto-Aztecan)
32. Shughni (Iranian)
33. Shumashti (Indo-Aryan)
34. Shuswap (Salishan)
35. Sicilian (Romance)
36. Sidamo (Cushitic)
37. Sika (Malayo-Polynesian)
38. Silesian (Slavic)
39. Silt'e or Selti or East Gurage (Semitic)
40. Sindhi (Indo-Aryan)
41. Sinhalese (Indo-Aryan)
42. Sioux (Siouan)
43. Sivandi (Iranian)
44. Skolt Sami (Uralic)
45. Slavey (Athabaskan)
46. Slovak (Slavic)
47. Slovene or Slovenian (Slavic)
48. Soddo or Kistane (Semitic)
49. Somali (Cushitic)
50. Sonjo or Temi (Bantu)
51. Sonsorolese or Sonsorol (Malayo-Polynesian)
52. Soqotri (Semitic)
53. Sora (Austroasiatic)
54. Sorbian, Lower (Slavic)
55. Sorbian, Upper (Slavic)
56. Sourashtra (Indo-Aryan)
57. Southern Sami (Uralic)
58. South Estonian (Uralic)
59. Southern Yukaghir or Tundra Yukaghir (Yukaghir)
60. Spanish (Romance)
61. Sranan Tongo (English-based creole)
62. St'at'imcets or Lillooet (Salishan)
63. Sucite or Sìcìté Sénoufo (Senufo)
64. Suba (Bantu)
65. Sundanese (Malayo-Polynesian)
66. Supyire or Supyire Senoufo (Senufo)
67. Surigaonon (Malayo-Polynesian)
68. Susu (Mande)
69. Svan (South Caucasian)
70. Swahili (Bantu)
71. Swati or Swazi or Siswati or Seswati (Bantu)
72. Swedish (Germanic)
73. Syriac (Semitic)

T

1. Tabasaran or Tabassaran (Northeast Caucasian)
2. Tachelhit (Berber)
3. Tagalog (Malayo-Polynesian)
4. Tahitian (Malayo-Polynesian)
5. Taiwanese Sign Language (Signing)
6. Tajik (Iranian)
7. Takestani (Iranian)
8. Talysh (Iranian)
9. Tamil (Dravidian)
10. Tanacross (Athabaskan)
11. Tangut (Tibeto-Burman)
12. Tarifit or Rifi or Riff Berber (Berber)
13. Tat or Tati (Iranian)
14. Tatar (Turkic)
15. Tausug (Malayo-Polynesian)
16. Tehuelche (Chon)
17. Telugu (Dravidian)
18. Tetum (Malayo-Polynesian)
19. Tepehua language (Totonacan)
20. Tepehuán language (Uto-Aztecan))
21. Thai (Tai–Kadai)
22. Tharu (Indo-Aryan)
23. Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman)
24. Tigre or Xasa (Semitic)
25. Tigrinya (Semitic)
26. Timbisha or Panamint (Uto-Aztecan)
27. Tiv (Benue–Congo)
28. Tlingit (Na-Dené)
29. Tobian (Malayo-Polynesian)
30. Toda (Dravidian)
31. Tok Pisin (English-based creole)
32. Tokelauan (Malayo-Polynesian)
33. Tonga (Bantu)
34. Tongan (Malayo-Polynesian)
35. Torwali or Turvali (Indo-Aryan)
36. Tregami (Indo-Aryan)
37. Tsat (Malayo-Polynesian)
38. Tsez or Dido (Northeast Caucasian)
39. Tshiluba or Luba-Kasai or Luba-Lulua (Bantu)
40. Tsimshian (Penutian)
41. Tsonga (Bantu)
42. Tswana or Setswana (Bantu)
43. Tu or Monguor (Mongolic)
44. Tuareg languages or Tamasheq (Berber)
45. Tulu (Dravidian)
46. Tumbuka (Bantu)
47. Tupiniquim (Tupian)
48. Turkish (Turkic)
49. Turkmen (Turkic)
50. Turoyo (Semitic)
51. Tuvaluan (Malayo-Polynesian)
52. Tuvan Tuvin or Tyvan (Turkic)

U

1. Udihe or Ude or Udege (Tungusic)
2. Udmurt or Votyak (Uralic)
3. Ukrainian (Slavic)
4. Ulch or Olcha (Tungusic)
5. Unserdeutsch or Rabaul Creole German (German-based creole)
6. Upper Sorbian (Slavic)
7. Urdu (Pakistani)
8. Uripiv (Malayo-Polynesian)
9. Urum (Turkic)
10. Ute (Uto-Aztecan)
11. Uyghur or Uigur (Turkic)
12. Uzbek (Turkic)

V

1. Vafsi (Iranian)
2. Valencian (Romance)
3. Valencian Sign Language (Signing)
4. Vasi-vari or Prasuni (Indo-Aryan)
5. Venda or Tshivenda (Bantu)
6. Venetian (Romance)
7. Veps (Uralic)
8. Vietnamese (Austroasiatic)
9. Võro (Uralic)
10. Votic or Votian (Uralic)

W

1. Waddar (Dravidian)
2. Waigali or Kalasha-Ala (Indo-Aryan)
3. Waima or Roro (Malayo-Polynesian)
4. Wakhi (Iranian)
5. Walloon (Romance)
6. Waray-Waray or Binisaya (Malayo-Polynesian)
7. Washo (Hokan)
8. Welsh (Celtic)
9. Western Neo-Aramaic (Semitic)
10. Wolane (Silt'e) (Semitic)
11. Wolof (Niger–Congo)
12. Wu (Sinitic)

X

1. Xhosa (Bantu)
2. Xiang (Sinitic)
3. Xibe or Sibo (Tungusic)
4. Xipaya (Tupian)
5. ǃXóõ (Khoisan)

Y

1. Yaaku language
2. Yaeyama language
3. Yaghnobi (Iranian)
4. Yakut
5. Yankunytjatjara language
6. Yanomami
7. Yanyuwa
8. Yapese
9. Yaqui
10. Yauma (Bantu)
11. Yavapai
12. Yazdi (Iranian)
13. Yazgulyam or Yazgulami (Iranian)
14. Yemenite Hebrew (Semitic)
15. Yeni language
16. Yevanic language
17. Yi language
18. Yiddish (Germanic)
19. Yidgha (Iranian)
20. Yogur (also known as Yoghur, (Mongolic) Sarï Uyghur, and (Mongolic) Yellow Uyghur, Mongolic)
21. Yokutsan languages
22. Yonaguni language
23. Yorùbá language
24. Yucatec Maya language
25. Yucatec Maya Sign Language (Signing)
26. Yuchi language
27. Yugur (also known as Yughur, (Turkic) Sarïgh Uyghur, and (Turkic) Yellow Uyghur, Turkic)
28. Yukaghir languages
29. Yupik language (Eskimo–Aleut)
30. Yurats language
31. Yurok language

Z

1. Záparo (Saparoan)
2. Zapotec (Oto-Manguean)
3. Zazaki (Iranian)
4. Zhuang (Tai–Kadai)
5. Zoque (Mixe–Zoquean)
6. Zulu (Niger–Congo) (Bantu)
7. Zuñi or Zuni (isolated)
8. Zway or Zay (Semitic)

See also

• Language
• Languages on the Internet

This list deals with particular languages, and includes only natural languages spoken or signed by humans. For other kinds of information about language see:

• Constructed language and List of constructed languages
• Language (for information about language in general)
• List of fictional languages
• List of programming languages
• Sign language and List of sign languages

External links

• Ethnologue language name index
• Language names in many languages
• List of Wikipedias by language family
• project