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Abkhaz language
Northwest Caucasian language of Abkhazia
Afar language
Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Ethiopia, Djibouti and Eritrea
African-American Vernacular English
Variety of American English
Afrikaans
West Germanic language spoken in South Africa
Akan language
Language of Akan lands in Ghana
Akkadian language
Extinct Semitic language
Albanian language
Indo-European language
American English
Variety of English language
American Sign Language
Sign language used predominately in the United States
Amharic
Semitic language of Ethiopia
Ancient Greek
Forms of Greek used from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD
Arabic
Semitic language
Aragonese language
Romance language
Aramaic
Semitic language spread by the Neo-Assyrians
Armenian language
Indo-European language
Assamese language
Indo-Aryan language spoken in India
Australian English
Set of varieties of the English language
Avar language
Language belonging to the Avar–Andic group of the Northeast Caucasian language family
Avestan
East Iranian language used in Zoroastrian scripture
Aymara language
Language spoken by the Aymara people
Azerbaijani language
Turkic language of the Oghuz sub-branch
Bambara language
Western African language
Bashkir language
Kipchak Turkic language
Basque language
Language of the Basque people
Belarusian language
East Slavic language
Bengali language
Indo-Aryan language mainly spoken in Bangladesh and India
Berber languages
Family of languages and dialects indigenous to North Africa
Bhojpuri language
Indo-Aryan language native to India and Nepal
Bihari languages
Group of Eastern Indo-Aryan languages
Bislama
Creole language used in Vanuatu
Bokmål
One of two official written standards for the Norwegian language
Bosnian language
Standard variety of Serbo-Croatian
Breton language
Celtic language spoken in France
British English
Variety of English language
Bulgarian language
South Slavic language
Burmese language
Language spoken in Myanmar
Canadian English
Set of varieties of the English language native to Canada
Cantonese
Variety of Yue Chinese
Catalan language
Romance language
Cebuano language
Austronesian language of the Philippines
Chamorro language
Austronesian language spoken on the Mariana Islands
Chavacano
Spanish-based creole of the Philippines
Chechen language
Northeast Caucasian language of Chechnya, Russia
Cherokee language
Iroquoian language spoken by the Cherokee people
Chewa language
Language of the Bantu language family
Chinese language
National language of China
Chuvash language
Turkic language spoken in central Russia, primarily in the Chuvash Republic and adjacent areas
Classical Arabic
Form of the Arabic language used in Umayyad and Abbasid literary texts
Classical Chinese
Written form of Chinese until the early 20th century
Classical Latin
Standard form of the Latin language in the Roman Republic and Empire
Coptic language
Latest stage of the Egyptian language
Cornish language
Brythonic Celtic language spoken in Cornwall
Corsican language
Italo-Dalmatian language
Cree language
Language
Czech language
West Slavic language spoken in the Czech Republic
Danish language
North Germanic language
Dutch language
West Germanic language
Dzongkha
Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Bhutan
Early Modern English
Stage of development of English, starting late 15th century
Egyptian Arabic
Arabic variety spoken in Egypt
Egyptian language
Language spoken in ancient Egypt, branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages
Elamite language
Ancient language in Mesopotamia
English language
West Germanic language
Esperanto
International auxiliary language
Estonian language
Uralic language
Ewe language
Niger–Congo language spoken in southeastern Ghana and southern Togo, Benin, and South Western Nigeria
Faroese language
North Germanic language
Fijian language
Austronesian language of Fiji
Filipino language
National and official language of the Philippines
Finnish language
Finnic language mostly spoken in Finland
French language
Romance language
Fula language
Senegambian language of West and Central Africa
Fuzhou dialect
Eastern Min Chinese language
Galician language
Western Ibero-Romance language
Gan Chinese
Primary branch of Chinese spoken in southern China
Georgian language
Official language of the country of Georgia
German language
West Germanic language
Gilbertese language
Micronesian language
Gothic language
Extinct East Germanic language
Greek language
Indo-European language
Greenlandic language
Inuit language spoken in Greenland
Guarani language
Tupian language spoken in Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil, and Bolivia
Gujarati language
Indo-Aryan language
Hachijō language
Japonic dialects of disputed classification
Haitian Creole
Language spoken in Haiti
Hakka Chinese
Primary branch of Chinese originating in Southern China
Hausa language
Chadic language spoken by the Hausa people
Hawaiian language
Polynesian language
Herero language
Bantu language of Nambia and Botswana
High German languages
West Germanic language family
Hindi
Standardised variety of Hindustani used in India
Hindustani language
Indo-Aryan language spoken in India and Pakistan
Hiri Motu
Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea
Hittite language
An extinct Bronze Age Indo-European language
Hmong language
West Hmongic dialect continuum
Huizhou Chinese
Sinitic language
Hungarian language
Uralic language
Ido (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
Igbo language
Niger–Congo language of the Igbo people, mainly spoken in Nigeria
Indian English
Variety of English language
Indonesian language
Official language of Indonesia
Interlingua
International auxiliary language created by IALA
Interlingue
International auxiliary language created 1922
Interslavic
Pan-Slavic language
Inuktitut
Name of some Inuit languages spoken in Canada
Iñupiaq language
Group of dialects of the Inuit language, spoken in northern and northwestern Alaska
Irish language
Celtic language native to Ireland
Italian language
Romance language
Jamaican Patois
English-based creole language spoken in Jamaica
Japanese language
Language spoken in Japan
Javanese language
Austronesian language
Jeju language
Koreanic language
Kannada
Dravidian language of South India
Kanuri language
Saharan language
Kashmiri language
Indo-Aryan language spoken in Kashmir
Kazakh language
Turkic language spoken in Central Asia
Khmer language
Austroasiatic language of Cambodia
Kikuyu language
Bantu language in Kenya
Kinyarwanda
Bantu language official in Rwanda
Kirundi
Bantu language of Burundi and adjacent states
Klingon language
Language constructed for Star Trek
Komi language
Uralic language that is spoken on the Republic of Komi, Russia
Kongo language
Bantu language spoken in Angola and Kongo
Korean language
East Asian language
Kurdish language
Northwestern Iranian dialect continuum
Kwanyama
Language of Angola and Namibia
Kyrgyz language
Kipchak Turkic language of Central Asia
Lao language
Kra–Dai language of the Lao people
LATIN
Cooperation scheme among 13 newspapers in Latin America
Latin grammar
Grammar of the Latin language
Latvian language
Baltic language, official in Latvia and the European Union
Levantine Arabic
Arabic variety spoken in the Levant
Lhasa Tibetan
Tibeto-Burman language
Limburgish
Low Franconian language spoken in the provinces of Limburg
Lingala
Bantu language spoken in western central Africa
Lithuanian language
Language spoken in Lithuania
Low German
West Germanic language
Luba-Katanga language
Bantu language
Luganda
Bantu language of Uganda
Luxembourgish
Germanic language spoken in Luxembourg
Macedonian language
Language spoken in North Macedonia
Madurese language
Language spoken in Indonesia
Maghrebi Arabic
Family of Arabic dialects spoken in the Maghreb
Malagasy language
Language spoken in Madagascar
Malay language
Austronesian language of Southeast Asia
Malayalam
Dravidian language
Maldivian language
Indo-Aryan national language of the Maldives
Maltese language
Semitic language spoken mostly in Malta
Mandarin Chinese
Major branch of Chinese languages
Manx language
Goidelic (Gaelic) Celtic language of the Isle of Man
Māori language
Polynesian language spoken by New Zealand Māori
Marathi language
Indo-Aryan language
Marshallese language
Micronesian language
Medieval Latin
Form of Latin used in the Middle Ages
Middle English
English language from the 12th to 15th centuries
Middle French
Historical variety of French used c. 1350–1600
Min Chinese
Primary branch of Chinese spoken in southern China and Taiwan
Modern English
Stage of the English language from the contemporary period
Modern Hebrew
Standard form of the Hebrew language spoken today
Modern Standard Arabic
Standardized and literary variety of Arabic used in writing and in most formal speech
Moldovan language
Outdated name for the Moldavian language in Moldova
Mongolian language
Language spoken in Mongolia
Mooré
Gur language spoken in Burkina Faso and neighbouring countries
Moroccan Arabic
Vernacular Arabic spoken in Morocco
Nahuatl
Language of the Nahuan branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family
Nauruan language
Austronesian language spoken in Nauru
Navajo language
Athabaskan language of Na-Dené stock spoken in the southwestern United States
Ndonga
Bantu language spoken in Namibia and parts of Angola
Nepali language
Official language of Nepal
Northern Ndebele language
Language belonging to the Nguni group of Bantu languages, one of the official languages of Zimbabwe
Northern Sámi
Most widely spoken of all Sami languages
Norwegian language
North Germanic language spoken in Norway
Nuosu language
The prestige language of the Yi people
Nynorsk
One of two official written standards for the Norwegian language
Occitan language
Romance language
Odia language
Indic language
Old Church Slavonic
Medieval Slavic literary language
Old English
Earliest historical form of English
Old French
Gallo-Romance dialect continuum spoken from the 9th century to the middle of the 14th century
Oromo language
Cushitic language native to the Horn of Africa
Ossetian language
Eastern Iranian language of Ossetia, in the Caucasus
Ovambo language
Bantu language
Pali
Indo-European language native to the Indian subcontinent
Pashto
Eastern Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Peninsular Arabic
Variety of the Arabic language spoken around the Arabian Peninsula
Pennsylvania Dutch language
Variety of West Central German
Persian language
Western Iranian language
Polish language
West Slavic language
Portuguese language
Romance language
Punjabi language
Indo-Aryan language spoken in India and Pakistan
Quebec French
Dialect of French
Regional Italian
Regional varieties of the Italian language, influenced by the languages of Italy
Romanian language
Eastern Romance language
Romansh language
Romance language spoken predominantly in the southeastern Swiss canton of Grisons (Graubünden)
Russian language
East Slavic language
Ryukyuan languages
Indigenous languages of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan
Samoan language
Language of the Samoan Islands
Sango language
Creole language spoken in the Central African Republic
Sanskrit
Ancient Indo-Aryan language of South Asia
Sardinian language
Romance language indigenous to the island of Sardinia
Scots language
West Germanic language
Scottish Gaelic
Goidelic Celtic language of Scotland
Serbian language
South Slavic language
Serbo-Croatian
South Slavic language
Shanghainese
Variety of Wu Chinese spoken in Shanghai
Shona language
Bantu language
Sindhi language
Indo-Aryan language native to Sindh
Sinhala language
Indo-Aryan language native to Sri Lanka
Slovak language
West Slavic language
Sotho language
Southern Bantu language
South African English
Set of English dialects native to South Africans
Southern Min
Branch of the Min Chinese languages
Southern Ndebele language
Language belonging to the Nguni group
Spanish language
Romance language
Standard French
Form of French used worldwide
Sumerian language
Language of ancient Sumer and Babylon
Sundanese language
Language spoken in Indonesia
Suzhou dialect
Dialect of Wu Chinese
Swahili language
Bantu language spoken mainly in East Africa
Swazi language
Language of the Swazi people
Swedish language
North Germanic language spoken in Sweden and Finland
Swiss German
Dialect of German spoken in Switzerland
Tagalog language
Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines
Tahitian language
Language of French Polynesia
Taiwanese Hokkien
Variety of Hokkien spoken in Taiwan
Tamil language
Dravidian language
Tatar language
Turkic language spoken by Tatars
Telugu language
Dravidian language
Thai language
Language spoken in Thailand
Tigrinya language
Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia and Eritrea
Tok Pisin
English creole spoken in Papua New Guinea
Toki Pona
Minimalist language created by Sonja Lang
Tolai language
Spoken by the Tolai people of Papua New Guinea
Tongan language
Polynesian language
Tsonga language
Bantu language of the Tsonga people of southern Africa
Tswana language
Bantu language
Tunisian Arabic
Maghrebi language spoken in Tunisia
Turkish language
Turkic language of the Oghuz sub-branch
Turkmen language
Turkic language
Tuvaluan language
Polynesian language spoken in Tuvalu
Tuvan language
Turkic language in Russia
TWI
Topics referred to by the same term
Ukrainian language
Language member of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages
Urdu
Indo-Aryan language
Uyghur language
Turkic language spoken by the Uyghur people
Uzbek language
Turkic language of the Karluk sub-branch
Venda language
South African Official Language
Vietnamese language
Official language of Vietnam
Volapük
Constructed international auxiliary language
Vulgar Latin
Non-standard Latin variety spoken by the people of Ancient Rome
Walloon language
Romance language common to an area of Belgium
Welsh language
Brittonic language spoken natively in Wales
West Frisian language
West Germanic language spoken in Friesland
Wolof language
Language of Senegal, the Gambia, and Mauritania
Wu Chinese
Chinese varieties spoken at and south of the Yangtze delta
Xhosa language
Language of the Xhosa people
Xiang Chinese
Primary branch of Chinese spoken in southern China
Yiddish
High German-derived language used by Ashkenazi Jews
Yoruba language
Language spoken in West Africa
Yue Chinese
Primary branch of Chinese spoken in southern China
Zhuang languages
Various Tai languages used by the Zhuang people of southern China
Zulu language
Language of the Zulu people