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To be merged in with list of languages (maybe, eventually).
A
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Aari (
Afro-Asiatic)
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Aariya (unclassified)
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Aasáx (
Afro-Asiatic)
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Abadi (
Malayo-Polynesian)
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Abaga (
Trans-New Guinea)
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Abai Sungai (
Malayo-Polynesian)
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Abanyom (
Bantu)
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Abar (
Bantu)
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Abau (
Sepik-Ramu)
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Abaza (
Northwest Caucasian)
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Abkhaz or Abkhazian (
Northwest Caucasian)
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Abujmaria (
Dravidian)
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Acehnese (
Malayo-Polynesian)
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Adamorobe Sign Language (
Signing)
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Adele (
Kwa)
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Adyghe (
Northwest Caucasian)
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Afar (
Cushitic)
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Afrikaans (
Germanic)
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Afro-Seminole Creole (
English-based creole)
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Aimaq or Barbari (
Iranian)
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Aini (
Turkic)
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Ainu (
language isolate)
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Akan (
Kwa)
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Akawaio (
Carib)
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Akkadian (
Semitic) (extinct)
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Aklanon (
Malayo-Polynesian)
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Albanian (
Indo-European)
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Aleut (
Eskimo-Aleut)
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Algonquin (
Algonquian)
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Alemán Coloneiro (
Germanic)
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Alsatian (
Germanic)
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Altay (
Turkic)
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Alutor (
Chukotko-Kamchatkan)
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American Sign Language (
Signing)
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Amharic (
Semitic)
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Amorite (
Semitic) (extinct)
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Anglo-Saxon or Old English (
Germanic)
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Amdang (
Nilo-Saharan)
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Ammonite (
Semitic) (extinct)
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Andalusian (
Romance)
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Angaur (
Malayo-Polynesian)
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Angika (
Indo-Aryan)
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Ao (
Tibeto-Burman)
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A-Pucikwar (
Andamanese)
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Arabic (
Semitic)
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Aragonese (
Romance)
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Aramaic (
Semitic)
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Are (
Malayo-Polynesian)
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Argobba (
Semitic)
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Aromanian or Macedo-Romanian (
Romance)
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Armenian (
Indo-European)
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Arpitan or Francoprovençal (
Romance)
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Arvanitic(
Indo-European)
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Ashkenazi Hebrew (
Semitic)
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Ashkun (
Indo-Iranian)
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Assamese (
Indo-Iranian)
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Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (
Semitic)
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Ateso or Teso (
Nilotic)
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Asi (
Malayo-Polynesian)
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Asturian (
Romance)
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Auslan (
Signing)
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Avar (
Northeast Caucasian)
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Avestan (
Indo-Iranian)
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Awadhi (
Indo-Iranian)
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Awjila (
Afro-Asiatic)
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Aymara (
Aymaran)
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Azerbaijani (
Turkic)
B
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Badaga (
Dravidian)
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Badeshi (
Indo-Iranian)
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Bahnar (
Austroasiatic)
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Bajelani (
Indo-Iranian)
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Balinese (
Malayo-Polynesian)
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Balochi (
Indo-Iranian)
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Balti (
Tibeto-Burman)
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Bambara or Bamanankan (
Mande)
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Banjar (
Malayo-Polynesian)
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Banyumasan (
Malayo-Polynesian)
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Basaa (
Bantu)
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Bashkir (
Turkic)
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Basque (
Isolated)
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Batak Dairi (
Malayo-Polynesian)
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Batak Karo (
Malayo-Polynesian)
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Batak Mandailing (
Malayo-Polynesian)
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Batak Simalungun (
Malayo-Polynesian)
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Batak Toba (
Malayo-Polynesian)
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Bats (
North Caucasian)
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Bavarian (
Germanic)
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Beja (
Cushitic)
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Belarusian (
Slavic)
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Belhare (
Tibeto-Burman)
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Bellari (
Dravidian)
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Berta (
Nilo-Saharan)
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Bemba (
Bantu)
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Bengali (
Indo-Aryan)
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Bezhta (
Northeast Caucasian)
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Beothuk (
unclassified) (extinct)
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Berber (
Afro-Asiatic)
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Bete (
Niger-Congo)
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Bété (
Niger-Congo)
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Bhili (
Indo-Aryan)
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Bhojpuri (
Indo-Aryan)
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Bijil Neo-Aramaic (
Semitic)
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Bikol (
Malayo-Polynesian)
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Bikya or Furu (
Bantu)
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Blackfoot (
Algonquian)
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Boholano (
Malayo-Polynesian)
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Bohtan Neo-Aramaic (
Semitic)
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Bolgar (
unclassified) (extinct)
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Bonan or Paoan (
Mongolic)
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Bororo (
Bororoan)
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Bosnian (
Slavic)
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Brahui (
Dravidian)
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Breton (
Celtic)
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British Sign Language (
Signing)
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Bua (
Niger-Congo)
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Buginese (
Malayo-Polynesian)
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Bukusu (
Bantu)
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Bulgarian (
Slavic)
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Bunjevac (
Slavic)
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Burmese (
Tibeto-Burman)
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Burushaski (
language isolate)
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Buryat (
Mongolic)
C
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Caluyanon or Caluyanun (
Malayo-Polynesian)
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Camunic (
unclassified) (extinct)
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Cantonese (
Sinitic)
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Carian (
Anatolian) (extinct)
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Catawba (
Siouan) (extinct)
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Catalan (
Romance)
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Cayuga (
Iroquoian)
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Cebuano (
Malayo-Polynesian)
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Chabacano or Chavacano (
Creole)
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Chaga or Kichagga (
Bantu)
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Chagatai (
Turkic) (extinct)
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Chaldean Neo-Aramaic (
Semitic)
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Chamorro (
Malayo-Polynesian)
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Chaouia or Tachawit (
Berber)
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Chechen (
Northeast Caucasian)
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Chemakum (
Chimakuan) (extinct)
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Chenchu (
Dravidian)
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Chenoua (
Berber)
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Cherokee (
Iroquoian
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Cheyenne (
Algonquian)
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Chhattisgarhi (
Indo-Aryan)
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Chilcotin (
Athabaskan)
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Chinese (
Sinitic)
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Chintang or Chhintang (
Tibeto-Burman)
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Chiricahua or Mescalero-Chiricahua Apache (
Athabaskan)
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Chichewa or Nyanja (
Bantu)
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Chipewyan (
Athabaskan)
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Chittagonian (
Indo-Aryan)
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Choctaw (
Muskogean)
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Chorasmian or Khwarezmian (
Iranian)
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Chukchi or Chukot (
Chukotko-Kamchatkan)
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Chulym (
Turkic)
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Church Slavonic (
Slavic)
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Chuukese or Trukese (
Malayo-Polynesian)
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Chuvash (
Turkic)
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Cocoma or Cocama (
Tupian)
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Cocopa (
Hokan)
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Coeur d’Alene (
Salishan)
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Comorian (
Bantu)
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Coptic (
Egyptian) (extinct,
liturgical language)
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Cornish (
Celtic)
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Corsican (
Romance)
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Cree (
Algonquian)
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Crimean Tatar or Crimean Turkish (
Turkic)
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Croatian (
Slavic)
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Cuman (
Turkic) (extinct)
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Cumbric (
Celtic) (extinct)
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Curonian (
Baltic) (extinct)
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Cuyonon (
Malayo-Polynesian)
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Czech (
Slavic)
D
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Dacian (
Indo-European) (extinct)
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Dahlik (
Semitic)
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Dalecarlian (
Germanic)
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Dalmatian (
Romance) (extinct)
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Dameli (
Indo-Aryan)
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Danish (
Germanic)
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Dargin (
Northeast Caucasian)
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Dari (Zoroastrian) (
Iranian)
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Dari-Persian (
Iranian)
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Darkhat (
Mongolic)
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Daur or Dagur (
Mongolic)
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Dena'ina or Tanaina (
Athapaskan)
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Dhatki (
Indo-Aryan)
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Dhivehi or Maldivian (
Indo-Aryan)
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Dida (
Volta-Congo)
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Dioula or Jula (
Mande)
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Dogri (
Indo-Aryan)
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Dogrib or Tli Cho (
Athapaskan)
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Dolgan (
Turkic)
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Domaaki or Dumaki (
Indo-Aryan)
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Dongxiang or Santa (
Mongolic)
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Duala (
Bantu)
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Dungan (
Sinitic)
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Dutch (
Germanic)
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Dzhidi or Judeo-Persian (
Iranian)
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Dzongkha (
Tibeto-Burman)
E
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Eastern Yugur (
Mongolic)
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Eblaite (
Semitic) (extinct)
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Edomite (
Semitic) (extinct)
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Egyptian (
Afro-Asiatic) (extinct)
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Egyptian Arabic (
Semitic)
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Ekoti (
Bantu)
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Elamite (
isolated) (extinct)
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Endegen (
Semitic)
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Enets or Yenisey Samoyed (
Samoyedic)
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English (
Germanic)
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Ennemor or Inor (
Semitic)
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Erzya (
Finno-Ugric)
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Esperanto (
artificial)
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Estonian (
Finno-Ugric)
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Etruscan (
Tyrsenian) (extinct)
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Even (
Altaic)
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Evenk or Evenki (
Altaic)
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Ewe (
Volta-Congo)
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Eyak (
Na-Dené)
F
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Faeroese (
Germanic)
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Fang (
Bantu)
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Fars (
Iranian)
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Fijian (
Malayo-Polynesian)
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Filipino (
Malayo-Polynesian)
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Finnish (
Finno-Ugric)
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Finnish Sign Language (
Signing)
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Fon (
Volta-Congo)
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Franco-Provençal (
Romance)
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French (
Romance)
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French Sign Language (
Signing)
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Frisian (
Germanic)
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Friulian (
Romance)
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Fula or Fulfulde or Fulani (
Atlantic)
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Fur (
Nilo-Saharan)
G
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Ga (
Volta-Congo)
-
Gadaba (
Dravidian)
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Gafat (
Semitic) (extinct)
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Gagauz (
Turkic)
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Galician (
Romance)
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Gangte (
Tibeto-Burman)
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Garhwali (
Indo-Aryan)
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Gaulish (
Celtic) (extinct)
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Gayo (
Malayo-Polynesian)
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Gazi (
Iranian)
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Ge'ez (
Semitic) (extinct)
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Gen or Gẽ or Mina (
Volta-Congo)
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Georgian (
South Caucasian)
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German (
Germanic)
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German Sign Language (
Signing)
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Ghomara (
Berber) (extinct)
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Gikuyu or Kikuyu (
Bantu)
-
Gilbertese or Kiribati (
Malayo-Polynesian)
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Gileki (
Iranian)
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Goaria (
Indo-Aryan)
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Gondi (
Dravidian)
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Gothic (
Germanic) (extinct)
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Gawar-Bati or Gowari or Narsati (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Grangali or Gelangali (
Indo-Aryan)
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Greek (
Indo-European)
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Guanche (
Berber) (extinct)
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Guaraní (
Tupian)
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Gujarati (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Gula Iro or Kulaal (
Volta-Congo)
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Gullah or Sea Island Creole English (
English-based creole)
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Gusii (
Bantu)
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Gwichʼin (
Athabaskan)
H
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Hadramautic (
Semitic) (extinct)
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Hadza or Hatsa (
Khoisan)
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Haida or Masset (
Na-Dené)
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Haitian Creole (
French-based creole)
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Hakka (
Sinitic)
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Hän (
Athabaskan)
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Harari (
Semitic)
-
Harauti (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Harsusi (
Semitic)
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Haryanavi or
Haryani or
Bangru (
Indo-Aryan) (a dialect of
Hindi)
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Harzani (
Iranian)
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Hattic (
unclassified, possibly
Northwest Caucasian) (extinct)
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Hausa (
Afro-Asiatic)
-
Havasupai or Upland Yuman (
Hokan)
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Hawaiian (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Hawaii Pidgin Sign Language (
Signing)
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Hazaragi (
Iranian) (a dialect of
Persian)
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Hebrew (
Semitic)
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Herero (
Bantu)
-
Hértevin (
Semitic)
-
Hiligaynon or Ilonggo (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Hindi (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Hiri Motu (
Motu-based
Pidgin)
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Hittite (
Anatolian)
-
Hixkaryana (
Carib)
-
Hmong (
Hmong Mien)
-
Ho (
Austroasiatic)
-
Hobyót (
Semitic)
-
Hopi (
Uto-Aztecan
-
Hulaulá (
Semitic)
-
Hungarian (
Finno-Ugric)
-
Hurrian (
Hurro-Urartian) (extinct)
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Hutterite German (
Germanic)
I
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Ibibio (
Volta-Congo)
-
Iban (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Ibanag (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Icelandic (
Germanic)
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Igbo or Ibo or Biafra (
Volta-Congo)
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Ikalanga or Kalanga (
Bantu)
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Ili Turki (
Turkic)
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Illinois (
Algonquian) (extinct)
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Ilokano or Ilocano (
Malayo-Polynesian)
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Inari Sami (
Finno-Ugric)
-
Indonesian (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Ingrian or Izhorian (
Finno-Ugric)
-
Ingush (
Northeast Caucasian)
-
Inuktitut (
Eskimo-Aleut)
-
Inupiaq (
Eskimo-Aleut)
-
Inuvialuktun (
Eskimo-Aleut)
-
Iraqw (
Cushitic)
-
Irish or Irish Gaelic (
Celtic)
-
Irish Sign Language (
Signing)
-
Irula (
Dravidian)
-
Isan or Northeastern Thai (
Tai-Kadai)
-
Istro-Romanian (
Romance)
-
Italian (
Romance)
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Itelmen or Kamchadal (
Chukotko-Kamchatkan)
J
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Jacaltec or Jakalteko (
Mayan)
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Jalaa (
unclassified, possibly
Niger-Congo)
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Japanese (
isolated)
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Jaqaru (
Aymaran)
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Jarai (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Javanese (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Jibbali or Shehri (
Semitic)
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Jicarilla Apache (
Athabaskan)
-
Juang (
Austro-Asiatic)
-
Judeo-Aramaic (
Semitic) (extinct)
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Judeo-Berber (
Afro-Asiatic)
-
Jurchen (
Tungusic) (extinct)
K
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Kabardian (
Northwest Caucasian)
-
Kabyle (
Berber)
-
Kachin or Jingpo (
Tibeto-Burman)
-
Kalaallisut or Greenlandic (
Eskimo-Aleut)
-
Kalami or Gawri or Dirwali (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Kalasha (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Kalmyk or Oirat (
Mongolic)
-
Kalto or Nahali (
isolated or
Indo-Aryan)
-
Kamas (
Samoyedic) (extinct)
-
Kankanai or Kankanaey (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Kannada (
Dravidian)
-
Kaonde or Chikaonde (
Bantu)
-
Kapampangan (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Karachay-Balkar (
Turkic)
-
Karagas (
Turkic)
-
Karaim (
Turkic)
-
Karakalpak (
Turkic)
-
Karelian (
Finno-Ugric)
-
Kashmiri (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Kashubian (
Slavic)
-
Kawi (
Malayo-Polynesian) (extinct)
-
Kazakh (
Turkic)
-
Kemi Sami (
Finno-Ugric) (extinct)
-
Kensiu (
Austro-Asiatic)
-
Kerek (
Paleosiberian)
-
Ket (
Chukotko-Kamchatkan)
-
Khakas (
Turkic)
-
Khalaj (
Iranian)
-
Kham or Sheshi (
Tibeto-Burman)
-
Khandeshi (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Khanty or Ostyak (
Finno-Ugric)
-
Khasi (
Austro-Asiatic)
-
Khazar (probably
Turkic) (extinct)
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Khirwar (
Dravidian)
-
Khmer (
Austro-Asiatic)
-
Khmu (
Austro-Asiatic)
-
Khowar (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Khunsari (
Iranian)
-
Kildin Sami (
Baltic-Finnic)
-
Kimatuumbi (
Bantu)
-
Kinaray-a or Hiraya (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Kinyarwanda (
Bantu)
-
Kirombo (
Bantu)
-
Kirundi (
Bantu)
-
Kivunjo (
Bantu)
-
Klallam or Clallam (
Salishan)
-
Kodava Takk or Kodagu or Coorgi (
Dravidian)
-
Kohistani or Khili (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Kolami (
Dravidian)
-
Komi or
Komi-Zyrian (
Finno-Ugric)
-
Konda (
Trans-New Guinea)
-
Konkani (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Kongo or Kikongo (
Bantu)
-
Koraga (
Dravidian)
-
Korandje (
Nilo-Saharan)
-
Korean (
isolated)
-
Korku (
Austro-Asiatic)
-
Korowai (
Trans-New Guinea)
-
Korwa (
Austro-Asiatic)
-
Koryak (
Chukotko-Kamchatkan)
-
Kosraean (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Kota (
Dravidian)
-
Koyra Chiini or Western Songhay (
Nilo-Saharan)
-
Koy Sanjaq Surat (
Semitic)
-
Koya (
Dravidian)
-
Krymchak or Judeo-Crimean Tatar (
Turkic)
-
Kujarge (
unclassified, perhaps
Chadic)
-
Kui (
Dravidian)
-
Kumauni (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Kumyk (
Turkic)
-
Kumzari (
Iranian)
-
ǃKung (
Khoisan)
-
Kurdish (
Iranian)
-
Kurukh or Kurux (
Dravidian)
-
Kurumba (
Dravidian)
-
Kusunda (
Tibeto-Burman) (extinct)
-
Kutenai or Kootenay or Ktunaxa (
isolated)
-
Kuvi (
Dravidian)
-
Kwanyama or Ovambo (
Bantu)
-
Kxoe (
Khoisan)
-
Kyrgyz or Kirghiz (
Turkic)
L
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Laal (
unclassified)
-
Ladakhi (
Tibeto-Burman)
-
Ladin (
Romance)
-
Ladino or Judeo-Spanish (
Romance)
-
Lakota or Lakhota or Teton (
Siouan)
-
Lambadi or Lamani or Banjari (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Lao or Laotian (
Tai-Kadai)
-
Latin (
Romance) (extinct,
liturgical language)
-
Latvian (
Baltic)
-
Laz or Lazuri (
South Caucasian)
-
Lenape or Unami or Delaware (
Algonquian) (extinct)
-
Lepontic (
Celtic) (extinct)
-
Lezgi or Agul (
Northeast Caucasian)
-
Ligbi or Ligby (
Mande)
-
Lingala (
Bantu)
-
Lipan Apache (
Athabascan)
-
Lisan al-Dawat (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Lishana Deni (
Semitic)
-
Lishanid Noshan or Lishana Didan (
Semitic)
-
Lithuanian (
Baltic)
-
Livonian or Liv (
Finno-Ugric)
-
Lotha (
Tibeto-Burman)
-
Low German or Low Saxon or Plattdeutsch (
Germanic)
-
Lower Sorbian (
Slavic)
-
Lozi or Silozi (
Bantu)
-
Ludic or Ludian (
Finno-Ugric)
-
Luganda (
Bantu)
-
Lunda or Chilunda (
Bantu)
-
Luri (
Iranian)
-
Lushootseed (
Salishan)
-
Lusoga or Soga (
Bantu)
-
Luvale (
Bantu)
-
Luwati (
Indo-Iranian)
-
Luwian or Luvian (
Anatolian) (extinct)
-
Luxembourgish (
Germanic)
-
Lycian (
Anatolian) (extinct)
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Lydian (
Anatolian) (extinct)
M
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Macedonian (
Slavic)
-
Macedonian, Ancient (
Proto-Greek) (extinct)
-
Magadhi (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Maguindanao (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Mahican (
Algonquian) (extinct)
-
Mahl (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Maithili (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Makasar (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Makhuwa-Meetto (
Bantu)
-
Makua (
Bantu)
-
Malagasy (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Malay (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Malayalam (
Dravidian)
-
Malaysian Sign Language (
Signing)
-
Maltese (
Semitic)
-
Malto or Sauria Paharia (
Dravidian)
-
Malvi or Malavi or Ujjaini (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Mam (
Mayan)
-
Manchurian (
Tungusic)
-
Manda (
Dravidian)
-
Mandaic (
Semitic)
-
Mandarin (
Sinitic)
-
Mandinka (
Niger-Congo)
-
Mansi or Vogul (
Finno-Ugric)
-
Manx (
Celtic) (extinct)
-
Manyika (
Bantu)
-
Maori (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Mapudungun or Mapuche (
isolated)
-
Maragoli (
Bantu)
-
Maranao (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Marathi (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Mari or Cheremis (
Finno-Ugric)
-
Maria (
Dravidian)
-
Marquesan (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Marshallese or Ebon (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (
Signing)
-
Masaba (
Bantu)
-
Masbatenyo or Minasbate (
Malayo-Polynesian
-
Meitei or Manipuri or Meithei (
Tibeto-Burman)
-
Mesqan or Masqan (
Semitic)
-
Mator (
Samoyedic) (extinct)
-
Mauritian Creole or Morisyen (
French-based creole)
-
Maya (
Mayan)
-
Mazandarani or Tabari(
Iranian)
-
Meänkieli or Tornedalen Finnish (
Finno-Ugric)
-
Megleno-Romanian (
Romance)
-
Megrelian or Mingrelian (
South Caucasian)
-
Mehri or Mahri (
Semitic)
-
Menominee (
Algonquian)
-
Mentawai (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Meroitic (
unclassified, maybe
Nilo-Saharan or
isolated)
-
Merya (
Finno-Ugric) (extinct)
-
Mescalero Apache (
Athabaskan)
-
Mesmes (
Semitic) (extinct)
-
Messapian (
Indo-European (extinct)
-
Miami (
Algonquian) (extinct)
-
Michif (
mixed,
French and
Cree based)
-
Middle Dutch (
Germanic) (extinct)
-
Middle English (
Germanic) (extinct)
-
Middle French (
Romance) (extinct)
-
Middle High German (
Germanic) (extinct)
-
Middle Persian or Pahlavi (
Iranian) (extinct)
-
Mikasuki or Miccosukee (
Muskogean)
-
Mi'kmaq or Micmac (
Algonquian)
-
Minaean (
Semitic) (extinct)
-
Minangkabau (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Mlahsô or Suryoyo (
Semitic) (extinct)
-
Moabite (
Semitic) (extinct)
-
Mobilian Jargon (
pidgin,
Choctaw and
French based)
-
Moghol (
Mongolic)
-
Mohawk (
Iroquoian)
-
Mohegan (
Algonquian) (extinct)
-
Moksha (
Finno-Ugric)
-
Molengue (
Bantu)
-
Mon (
Austro-Asiatic)
-
Mongolian (
Mongolic)
-
Mono (
Volta-Congo)
-
Mono (
Uto-Aztecan)
-
Mono (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Montagnais (
Algonquian)
-
Montenegrin (
Slavic)
-
Motu (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Mpre (
unclassified, perhaps
Niger-Congo or
isolated) (extinct)
-
Muher (
Semitic)
-
Mukha-Dora or Nuka (
unclassified)
-
Mundari (
Austro-Asiatic)
-
Munji (
Iranian)
-
Murcian (
Murcian)
-
Muria (
Dravidian)
-
Muromian (
Finno-Ugric) (extinct)
-
Murut (
Malayo-Polynesian)
N
-
Nafaanra (
Volta-Congo)
-
Nagarchal (
Dravidian)
-
Nahuatl (
Uto-Aztecan)
-
Naiki (
Dravidian)
-
Nama (
Khoisan)
-
Nanai (
Tungusic)
-
Natanzi (
Iranian)
-
Nauruan (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Navajo or Navaho (
Na-Dené)
-
Nayini or Biyabanak (
Iranian)
-
Ndau or Southeast Shona (
Bantu)
-
Ndebele (
Bantu)
-
Ndonga (
Bantu)
-
Neapolitan (
Romance)
-
Negidal (
Tungusic)
-
Nenets or Yurak (
Samoyedic)
-
Nepal Bhasa or Newari (
Tibeto-Burman)
-
Nepali (
Indo-Aryan)
-
New Zealand Sign Language (
Signing)
-
Nganasan or Tavgi (
Samoyedic)
-
Ngumba (
Bantu)
-
Nheengatu or Geral or Modern Tupí (
Tupian)
-
Nicaraguan Sign Language (
Signing)
-
Nicola) (
Athabaskan languages) (extinct)
-
Niellim (
Volta-Congo)
-
Nigerian Pidgin (
pidgin,
English-based)
-
Niuean or Niue (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Nivkh or Gilyak (
isolated)
-
Nogai (
Turkic)
-
Norfuk or Norfolk or Pitcairn-Norfolk (
cant,
English-
Tahitian based)
-
Norman or Norman-French (
Romance)
-
Norn (
Germanic) (extinct)
-
Northern Sami (
Finno-Ugric)
-
Northern Sotho or Sepedi (
Bantu)
-
Northern Straits Salish) (
Salishan)
-
Northern Yukaghir (
Yukaghir)
-
Norwegian (
Bokmål,
Nynorsk,
Riksmål) (
Germanic)
-
Nuer (
Nilotic)
-
Nuxálk or Bella Coola (
Salishan)
-
Nyabwa (
Volta-Congo)
-
Nyah Kur (
Austro-Asiatic)
-
Nyangumarta (
Pama-Nyungan)
-
Nyoro (
Bantu)
-
Nǀu (
Khoisan)
O
-
Occitan (
Romance)
-
Ojibwe or Ojibwa or Chippewa (
Algonquian)
-
Old Church Slavonic (
Slavic) (extinct,
liturgical language)
-
Old English or Anglo-Saxon (
Germanic) (extinct)
-
Old French (
Romance) (extinct)
-
Old French Sign Language (
Signing) (extinct)
-
Old High German (
Germanic) (extinct)
-
Old Norse (
Germanic) (extinct)
-
Old Nubian language (
Nilo-Saharan) (extinct)
-
Old Persian (
Iranian) (extinct)
-
Old Prussian (
Baltic) (extinct)
-
Old Saxon (
Germanic) (extinct)
-
Old South Arabic (
Semitic) (extinct)
-
Old Tupi or Tupinamba (
Tupian) (extinct)
-
Olonets Karelian or Liv or Livvi (
Finno-Ugric)
-
Omagua (
Tupian)
-
Ongota (
Afro-Asiatic)
-
Oriya (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Ormuri (
Iranian)
-
Oroch (
Tungusic)
-
Orok (
Tungusic)
-
Oromo or Afaan Oromoo (
Cushitic)
-
Oropom (
unclassified) (extinct)
-
Ossetic or Ossetian (
Iranian)
-
Ottoman Turkish (
Turkic) (extinct)
P
-
Páez or Nasa Yuwe (
isolated)
-
Palaic (
Anatolian) (extinct)
-
Palauan (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Pali (
Indo-Aryan) (extinct)
-
Pangasinan (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Papiamento or Papiamentu (
Portuguese-based creole)
-
Parachi (
Iranian)
-
Parauk (
Austro-Asiatic)
-
Parji or Duruwa (
Dravidian)
-
Parya (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Pashto or Pushto or Pashtu (
Iranian)
-
Passamaquoddy or Maliseet-Passamaquoddy or Malecite-Passamaquoddy (
Algonquian)
-
Pecheneg (
Turkic) (extinct)
-
Pemon or Pemong (
Cariban)
-
Pengo (
Dravidian)
-
Pennsylvania Dutch or Pennsylvania German (
Germanic)
-
Pentlatch or Puntlatch (
Salishan) (extinct)
-
Persian or Farsi (
Iranian)
-
Phalura (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Phoenician (
Semitic) (extinct)
-
Phrygian (
Indo-European) (extinct)
-
Phuthi (
Bantu)
-
Picard (
Romance)
-
Pictish (
Celtic) (extinct)
-
Pirahã (
Mura)
-
Pisidian (
Anatolian) (extinct)
-
Plautdietsch or Mennonite Low German (
Germanic)
-
Polabian (
Slavic (extinct)
-
Polish (
Slavic)
-
Portuguese (
Romance)
-
Pothohari or Pahari-Potwari (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Potiguara (
Tupian) (extinct)
-
Pradhan or Pardhan (
Dravidian)
-
Proto-Indo-European (
Indo-European) (extinct)
-
Provençal (
Romance)
-
Puelche (
isolated)
-
Puma (
Tibeto-Burman)
-
Punjabi or Panjabi or Gurmukhi (
Indo-Aryan)
Q
-
Qashqai or Ghashghai (
Turkic)
-
Qatabanian (
Semitic) (extinct)
-
Quebec Sign Language (
Signing)
-
Quechua (
Quechuan)
R
-
Rajasthani (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Ratagnon or Datagnon or Latagnun (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Réunion Creole or Bourbonnais (
French-based creole)
-
Romanian (
Romance)
-
Romansh or Rhaeto-Romance (
Romance)
-
Romany (
Indo-Iranian)
-
Romblomanon (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Rotokas (
East Papuan)
-
Runyankole language or Nyankore (
Bantu)
-
Russenorsk (
Russian-
Norwegian
pidgin) (extinct)
-
Russian (
Slavic)
-
Russian Sign Language (
Signing)
-
Ruthenian or Rusyn or Carpathian (
Slavic)
S
-
Sabaean (
Semitic) (extinct)
-
Salar (
Turkic)
-
Samaritan Hebrew (
Semitic) (extinct)
-
Samoan (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Sandawe (
Khoisan)
-
Sangisari or Sangesari (
Iranian)
-
Sanglechi-Ishkashimi (
Iranian)
-
Sango (
Ngbandi-based creole)
-
Sanskrit (
Indo-Aryan) (extinct,
liturgical language)
-
Santali (
Austro-Asiatic)
-
Sara (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Saramaccan (
English-based creole)
-
Sardinian (
Romance)
-
Sarikoli (
Iranian)
-
Savara (
Dravidian)
-
Savi (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Sawai (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Sawknah (
Afro-Asiatic)
-
Scots (
Germanic)
-
Scottish Gaelic or Scots Gaelic (
Celtic)
-
Selangor Sign Language (
Signing)
-
Selkup or Ostyak Samoyed (
Samoyedic)
-
Selonian (
Baltic) (extinct)
-
Semnani (
Iranian)
-
Senaya (
Semitic)
-
Sened (
Berber) (extinct)
-
Senhaja de Srair (
Berber) (extinct)
-
Sephardi Hebrew (
Semitic)
-
Serbian (
Slavic)
-
Serbo-Croatian (
Slavic)
-
Sesotho (
Bantu)
-
Seto or Setu (
Finno-Ugric)
-
Seychellois Creole (
French-based creole)
-
Shahrudi (
Iranian)
-
Shimaore (
Bantu)
-
Shina (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Shona (
Bantu)
-
Shor (
Turkic)
-
Shughni (
Iranian)
-
Shumashti (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Shuswap (
Salishan)
-
Sicilian (
Romance)
-
Sidamo (
Cushitic)
-
Sidetic (
Anatolian) (extinct)
-
Sika (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Silesian (
Slavic)
-
Silt'e or Selti or East Gurage (
Semitic)
-
Sindhi (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Sinhalese (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Sioux (
Siouan)
-
Siraiki or Seraiki or Southern Punjabi (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Sivandi (
Iranian)
-
Siwi (
Afro-Asiatic)
-
Skolt Sami (
Finno-Ugric)
-
Slavey (
Athabaskan)
-
Slovak (
Slavic)
-
Slovenian or Slovene (
Slavic)
-
Soddo or Kistane (
Semitic)
-
Soi (
Iranian)
-
Somali (
Cushitic)
-
Sonjo or Temi (
Bantu)
-
Sonsorolese or Sonsorol (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Soqotri (
Semitic)
-
Sora (
Austro-Asiatic)
-
Sorbian (
Slavic)
-
Southern Sami (
Finno-Ugric)
-
South Estonian (
Finno-Ugric)
-
Southern Yukaghir or Tundra Yukaghir (
Yukaghir)
-
Spanish (
Romance)
-
Sranan Tongo (
English-based creole)
-
St'at'imcets or Lillooet (
Salishan)
-
Sucite or Sìcìté Sénoufo (
Volta-Congo)
-
Suba (
Bantu)
-
Sudovian or Yotvingian (
Baltic) (extinct)
-
Sumerian (
isolated) (extinct)
-
Sundanese (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Supyire or Supyire Senoufo (
Volta-Congo)
-
Surigaonon (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Susu (
Niger-Congo)
-
Svan (
South Caucasian)
-
Swahili (
Bantu)
-
Swati or Swazi or Siswati or Seswati (
Bantu)
-
Swedish (
Germanic)
-
Syriac (
Semitic)
T
-
Tabasaran or Tabassaran (
Northeast Caucasian)
-
Tachelhit (
Berber)
-
Tagalog (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Tahitian (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Taiwanese Sign Language (
Signing)
-
Tajik (
Iranian)
-
Takestani (
Iranian)
-
Talysh (
Iranian)
-
Tamil (
Dravidian)
-
Tanacross (
Athabaskan)
-
Tangut or Xixia (
Tibeto-Burman) (extinct)
-
Tarifit or Rifi or Riff Berber (
Berber)
-
Tat or Tati (
Iranian)
-
Tatar (
Turkic)
-
Tausug (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Tehuelche (
Chon)
-
Telugu (
Dravidian)
-
Temiar or Northern Sakai (
Austro-Asiatic)
-
Tetum (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Thai (
Tai-Kadai)
-
Tharu (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Thracian (
Indo-European) (extinct)
-
Tibetan (
Tibeto-Burman)
-
Tigre or Xasa (
Semitic)
-
Tigrinya (
Semitic)
-
Tillamook (
Salishan) (extinct)
-
Tirahi (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Tiv (
Volta-Congo)
-
Tlingit (
Na-Dené)
-
Tobian (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Tocharian A and B (
Indo-European) (extinct)
-
Toda (
Dravidian)
-
Tok Pisin (
English-based creole)
-
Tokelauan (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Tonga (
Bantu)
-
Tongan (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Tongva (
Uto-Aztecan) (extinct)
-
Torwali or Turvali (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Tregami (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Tsat (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Tsez or Dido (
Northeast Caucasian)
-
Tshiluba or Luba-Kasai or Luba-Lulua (
Bantu)
-
Tsimshian (
Penutian)
-
Tsonga (
Bantu)
-
Tswana or Setswana (
Bantu)
-
Tu or Monguor (
Mongolic)
-
Tuareg languages or Tamasheq (
Berber)
-
Tulu (
Dravidian)
-
Tumbuka (
Bantu)
-
Tupiniquim (
Tupian)
-
Turkish (
Turkic)
-
Turkmen (
Turkic)
-
Turoyo (
Semitic)
-
Tuvaluan (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Tuvan Tuvin or Tyvan (
Turkic)
U
-
Ubykh (
Northwest Caucasian) (extinct)
-
Udihe or Ude or Udege (
Tungusic)
-
Udmurt or Votyak (
Finno-Ugric)
-
Ugaritic (
Semitic) (extinct)
-
Ukrainian (
Slavic)
-
Ulbare (
Semitic)
-
Ulch or Olcha (
Tungusic)
-
Unserdeutsch or Rabaul Creole German (
German-based creole)
-
Upper Sorbian (
Slavic)
-
Urdu (
Indic)
-
Uripiv (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Urum (
Turkic)
-
Ute (
Uto-Aztecan)
-
Uyghur or Uigur (
Turkic)
-
Uzbek (
Turkic)
V
-
Vafsi (
Iranian)
-
Valencian Sign Language (
Signing)
-
Vasi-vari or Prasuni (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Venda or Tshivenda (
Bantu)
-
Veps (
Finno-Ugric)
-
Vietnamese (
Austro-Asiatic)
-
Võro (
Finno-Ugric)
-
Votic or Votian (
Finno-Ugric)
W
-
Waddar (
Dravidian)
-
Waigali or Kalasha-Ala (
Indo-Aryan)
-
Waima or Roro (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Wakhi (
Iranian)
-
Walloon (
Romance)
-
Waneci (
Iranian)
-
Wapishana or Aruma (
Arawakan
-
Waray-Waray or Binisaya (
Malayo-Polynesian)
-
Washo (
Hokan)
-
Welsh (
Celtic)
-
Western Neo-Aramaic (
Semitic)
-
Weyto (
unclassified, probably
Afro-Asiatic) (extinct)
-
Wolane (
Semitic)
-
Wolof (
Niger-Congo)
-
Wotapuri-Katarqalai (
Indo-Aryan
-
Wu (
Sinitic)
X
-
ǀXam (
Khoisan) (extinct)
-
Xhosa (
Bantu)
-
Xiang (
Sinitic)
-
Xibe or Sibo (
Tungusic)
-
ǃXóõ (
Khoisan)
-
Xokó (
unclassified) (extinct)
-
Xukurú (
unclassified) (extinct)
Y
Only languages with Wikipedia pages are listed here. See
List of languages by name: Y for more.
-
Yaaku language
-
Yaeyama language
-
Yakut
-
Yankunytjatjara language
-
Yanomami
-
Yanyuwa language
-
Yapese
-
Yaqui language
-
Yauma language (
Bantu)
-
Yavapai language
-
Yazdi (
Iranian)
-
Yemenite Hebrew language (
Semitic)
-
Yeni language
-
Yevanic language
-
Yi language
-
Yiddish (
Germanic)
-
Yogur (also known as
Yoghur, (Mongolic)
Sarï Uyghur, and (Mongolic)
Yellow Uyghur,
Mongolic)
-
Yokutsan languages
-
Yonaguni language
-
Yorùbá language
-
Yucatec Maya language
-
Yucatec Maya Sign Language (
Signing)
-
Yuchi language
-
Yugur (also known as
Yughur, (Turkicic)
Sarïgh Uyghur, and (Turkic)
Yellow Uyghur,
Turkic)
-
Yukaghir languages
-
Yupik language (
Eskimo-Aleut)
-
Yurats language
-
Yurok language
Z
Only some major languages are listed here. See
List of languages by name: Z for about 50 more.
-
Záparo (
Saparoan)
-
Zapotec (
Oto-Manguean)
-
Zazaki (
Iranian)
-
Zhuang (
Tai-Kadai)
-
Zoque (
Mixe-Zoquean)
-
Zulu (
Niger-Congo) (
Bantu)
-
Zuñi or Zuni (
isolated)
-
Zway or Zay (
Semitic)