List Of Languages

A language is a system of symbols and the rules used to manipulate them. Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon.
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This list of languages is alphabetical by English name. More structured lists are also available:

• List of language families
• ISO 639
• List of ISO 639-3 codes
• List of languages by writing system
• List of languages by number of native speakers

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Arabic alphabet

• Arabic
• Azeri (Iran)
• Balochi
• Berber
• Fulani (on occasion)
• Hausa (on occasion)
• Kanuri (on occasion)
• Kashmiri
• Kazakh in China
• Kurdish (Iran and Iraq)
• Malagasy (until the 19th c.)
• Malay (14th - 17th c.

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This is a list of languages, ordered by the number of native-language speakers, with some data for second-language use. Languages are listed for secondary locations only when spoken by more than 1% of the population.
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This list gives the most spoken languages in the world according to the Ethnologue, a widely cited reference for languages around the world. The Ethnologue is sometimes criticised for using out-of-date data, but there is no available fully authoritative source for numbers of first
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Some major language families

• Afro-Asiatic
• Altaic (controversial)
• Austro-Asiatic
• Austronesian
• Dravidian
• Eskimo-Aleut
• Indo-European
• Na-Dené
• Niger-Congo
• Nilo-Saharan
• Pama-Nyungan
• Sino-Tibetan
• Tai-Kadai
• Uralic

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• Indo-European languages (~48% of speakers)
• Indo-Iranian languages (~17%)
• Romance languages (~10%)
• Germanic languages

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list of languages by first written accounts which consists of the approximate dates for the first written accounts that are known for various languages.
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Afrikaans:

• South Africa (with English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu)

Albanian:

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This is a complete list of the official languages designated in the sovereign states of the world. It includes all languages that have official language status either statewide or in a part of the state, regional language status, or minority language status.
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This is a list of official languages for significant regional and international institutions. Different organisations sometimes refer to their principal languages of administration and communication as "working languages", whilst others refer to these as being "official".
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<noinclude>ISO 639 has three code lists. The following is a list of ISO 639-1 language codes, including the ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3 codes where they exist. The data is sorted by 639-1 code.
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Artificial (Other)
asm as Assamese অসমীয়?
ast   Asturian; Bable asturianu
ath   Athapascan languages
aus   Australian languages
bar   Austro-Bavarian boarisch
map   Austronesian (Other)
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The following is a complete overview of all codes in the draft code table for ISO/FDIS 639-3. A normative list of current ISO 639-3 identifiers is available for download from the ISO 639-3 Registration Authority Web site.
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This list of constructed languages is in alphabetical order, and divided into auxiliary, engineered, and artistic languages, and their respective subgenres.

Auxiliary languages

Spoken (major)

Language Name Year of
first
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