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This list of languages is alphabetical by English name. More structured lists are also available:

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Ethnologue lists about 6,800 main languages in its language name index (see other websites) and distinguishes about 41,000 alternate language names and dialects.

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

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• list of programming languages

A

• Aariya
• Adi
• Adi, Galo
• Aer
• Afrikaans
• Agariya
• Ahirani
• Ainu
• Aiton
• Akkadian (Semitic) (extinct)
• Albanian
• Aleut
• Algonquin
• Alemán Coloneiro (Germanic)
• Allar
• Alsatian (Germanic)
• Alviri-Vidari
• Amharic
• Amri
• Anal
• Andaman Creole Hindi
• Andh
• Angika
• Anglo-Saxon
• Apache
• Apatani
• A-Pucikwar
• Arabic (Semitic)
• Arabic, Gulf Spoken
• Arabic, Mesopotamian Spoken
• Arabic, Tajiki Spoken
• Aragonese
• Arakanese
• Aramaic (Semitic)
• Aranadan
• Arawak
• Armenian
• Ashkun
• Ashtiani
• Assamese
• Asuri
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
• Assyrian
• Asturian
• A'tong
• Avestan
• Aymara
• Azerbaijani
• Azerbaijani, South
• Awadhi

B

• Badeshi
• Bagheli
• Bagri
• Bakhtiari
• Balochi, Eastern
• Balochi, Northern
• Balochi, Southern
• Balochi, Western
• Balochi
• Balti
• Bambara
• Bavarian
• Bareli, Palya
• Bareli, Pauri
• Bareli, Rathwi
• Bashkardi
• Basque
• Bateri
• Bauria
• Bazigar
• Belarusian (Slavic)
• Bellari
• Bemba
• Bengali (Bangla)
• Berber
• Bété
• Bhadrawahi
• Bhalay
• Bharia
• Bhatola
• Bhatri
• Bhattiyali
• Bhaya
• Bhilali
• Bhili
• Bhojpuri
• Bhunjia
• Biafran
• Biete
• Bihari
• Bijori
• Bikya
• Bilaspuri
• Birhor
• Bishnupriya
• Blackfoot
• Bodo
• Bodo Parja
• Bondo
• Bosnian (Slavic)
• Brahui
• Braj Bhasha
• Breathanach
• Breton (Celtic)
• Brokskat
• Brithenig
• Bulgarian (Slavic)
• Burmese
• Bugun
• Buksa
• Bundeli
• Burushahski
• Byangsi

C

• Camunic (extinct)
• Cantonese
• Chak
• Chakma
• Chilisso
• Chamari
• Chambeali
• Changthang
• Chaudangsi
• Chaura
• Chenchu
• Chhattisgarhi
• Chin, Asho
• Chin, Bawm
• Chin, Falam
• Chin, Haka
• Chin, Khumi
• Chin, Mara
• Chin, Matu
• Chin, Paite
• Chin, Tedim
• Chin, Thado
• Chinali
• Chinese
• Carib
• Catalan (Romance)
• Catawba
• Cayuga
• Cebuano (Malayo-Polynesian)
• Ceqli
• Chagatai
• Chamorro
• Chechen
• Chiru
• Cheremis
• Chichewa
• Chorasmian
• Chittagonian
• Chukchi
• Chuvash
• Cocoma
• Chodri
• Churahi
• Coptic
• Cornish (Celtic)
• Corsican
• Cree
• Croatian (Slavic)
• Cumbric (Celtic) (extinct)
• Curonian
• Czech (Slavic)

D

• Dacian (extinct)
• Darlong
• Dameli
• Darmiya
• Darwazi
• Dalmatian
• Danish (Germanic)
• Dargestani
• Dari
• Deccan
• Degaru
• Deori
• Dezfuli
• Dhanki
• Dhanwar
• Dhatki
• Dehwari
• Dhimal
• Dhodia
• Dhundari
• Dida
• Digaro-Mishmi
• Dimasa
• Dhivehi
• Dogri
• Domaaki
• Domari
• Duala
• Dubli
• Dungan
• Dungra Bhil
• Duruwa
• Dutch (Germanic)
• Dzhidi
• Dzongkha

E

• Edomite
• Ekspreso
• Elamite (extinct)
• Enets (Yenisey Samoyed) (Samoyed)
• English (Germanic)
• Erzya (Finno-Ugric)
• Eshtehardi
• Esperanto (constructed, based on European languages)
• Estonian (Finno-Ugric)
• Etruscan
• Evenk

F

• Fars, Northwestern
• Fars, Southwestern
• Farsi, Western
• Farsi, Eastern
• Faroese
• Farsi (Persian)
• Fijian
• Filipino
• Finnish (Finno-Ugric)
• Flemish
• French Créole
• French (Romance)
• Frisian
• Friulian (Romance)
• Fulania
• Furu

G

• Gadaba, Bodo
• Gadaba, Mudhili
• Gadaba, Pottangi Ollar
• Gaddi
• Gahri
• Galician
• Gamit
• Gan (Chinese)
• Gangte
• Garasia, Adiwasi
• Garasia, Rajput
• Garhwali
• Garo
• Gata'
• Gaulish
• Gawar-Bati
• Gayo
• Gazi
• Ge'ez
• Georgian
• German / Deutsch (Germanic)
• Georgian
• Ghera
• Gilaki
• Goaria
• Godwari
• Gondi, Northern
• Gondi, Southern
• Gothic (extinct)
• Gowlan
• Gowli
• Gowro
• Gozarkhani
• Grangali
• Groma
• Greek
• Guaraginga
• Guarani
• Gujari
• Gujarati
• Gurgula
• Gurung, Western
• Gilyak
• Gwich'in

H

• Haitian creole
• Hakka (Chinese)
• Hausa
• Hawaiian
• Hazaragi
• Hebrew (Semitic)
• Hindi (Indo-Iranian)
• Hindko
• Hittite (Anatolian)
• Hopi
• Hui (Chinese)
• Hungarian (Finno-Ugric)
• Hutterite German

I

• Icelandic (Germanic)
• Ido (constructed, reformed version of Esperanto)
• Igbo
• Ijaw
• Illyrian
• Ilocano
• Iloko (Malayo-Polynesian)
• Ilonggo (Malayo-Polynesian)
• Interlingua (constructed, based on European languages)
• Interlingue, originally Occidental (constructed, based on European languages)
• Inupiak
• Isan
• Istro-Romanian (Romance)
• Indonesian (Malayo-Polynesian)
• Ingrian
• Irish (Irish Gaelic) (Celtic)
• Irkut
• Italian / Italiano (Romance)

J

• Jadgali
• Jandavra
• Japanese / 日本語
• Javanese
• Jin (Chinese)
• Judaeo-Spanish

K

• Kabutra
• Kabyle
• Kachchi
• Kafiri
• Kalami
• Kalasha
• Kalkoti
• Kamas (Samoyed)
• Kamviri
• Kankonian
• Kannada
• Kaonde
• Karelian (Finno-Ugric)
• Kashmiri
• Kashubian
• Kati
• Kawi
• Kazakh
• Kelen
• Ket
• Khandeshi
• Khanty (Ostyak) (Finno-Ugric)
• Khetrani
• Khmer
• Khowari
• Kinyarwanda
• Kiswahili
• Klingon (constructed)
• Kohistani, Indus
• Koli-Kachi
• Koli-Parkari
• Koli-Wadiyara
• Komi (Zyrian) (Finno-Ugric)
• Konkani
• Korean / 한국어
• Korowai
• Krimchak (Judeo-Crimean Tatar)
• Kumauni
• Kurdish
• Kyrgyz

L

• Láadan
• Ladakhi
• Ladin
• Lahnda
• Lakhota
• Lao
• Lappish
• Lasi
• Latin / Latina
• Latvian (Baltic)
• Lebanese
• Lenni Lenape
• Lepontic
• Lingala
• Lithuanian (Baltic)
• Livonian (Finno-Ugric)
• Loarki
• Loglan (constructed)
• Lojban (constructed, based on Loglan)
• Lozi
• Lude
• Lunda
• Luri
• Luvale
• Luxembourgish
• Lydian (Anatolian)

M

• Macedonian (Slavic)
• Macedoromanian (Romance)
• Makasar
• Malagasy
• Malayalam
• Maltese
• Manchurian
• Mandarin (Chinese)
• Mansi (Vogul) (Finno-Ugric)
• Manx (Manx Gaelic)
• Maori
• Mapudungun
• Marathi
• Mari (Cheremis) (Finno-Ugric)
• Marquesan
• Marshallese
• Marwari
• Mator
• Maya
• Mazandarani
• Meänkieli
• Megleno-Romanian
• Memoni
• Messapian
• Michif
• Min (Chinese)
• Minangkabau
• Mirpuri
• Mobilian
• Mohawk
• Moksha (Finno-Ugric)
• Mon
• Mongolian

N

• Nahuatl
• Nauruan
• Navajo
• Nenets (Yurak) (Samoyed)
• Nepal Bhasa
• Nepali
• New Kypchak
• Nganasan (Tavgi) (Samoyed)
• Nhengatu
• Nigerian pidgin
• Niuean language
• Northern Sotho
• Norn
• Norwegian
• Novial (constructed, based on European languages)
• N/u
• Nyanja

O

• Occidental, later Interlingue (constructed, based on European languages)
• Occitan
• Od
• Okinawan
• Ojibwa
• Old Church Slavonic
• Old French
• Old Norse
• Old Prussian (Baltic)
• Olonetsian
• Omagua
• Oriya
• Ormuri
• Oromifa
• Ossetic
• Ostyak
• Ostyak Samoyed

P

• Pahari-Potwari
• Pahlavi
• PSL
• Palauan
• Pali
• Papiamento
• Parachi
• Pashto
• Passamaquoddy
• Pennsylvania German
• Permyak
• Persian
• Phalura
• Phrygian (extinct)
• Pictish
• Ping (Chinese)
• Pirah (Mura)
• Plautdietsch, Mennonite Low German
• Polish (Slavic)
• Portuguese
• Potiguara
• Provençal
• Punjabi
• Purik

Q

• Quechua
• Quenya (constructed)

R

• Rajasthani
• Rappahanock
• Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance)
• Romanian (Romance)
• Romanica (constructed Romance)
• Romansh (Romance)
• Romany (Indo-Iranian)
• Russenorsk
• Russian (Slavic)

S

• Salish
• Sami (Lappish) (Finno-Ugric)
• Samoan
• Sansi
• Sanskrit (Indo-Iranian)
• Saraiki language
• Saramaccan
• Sardinian (Romance)
• Savi
• Scots (Lallans) (Includes Ulster Scots (Ullans))
• Scottish (Gaelic or Scottish Gaelic)
• Selonian
• Seminole
• Seraiki
• Serbian (Slavic)
• Serbo-Croatian (Slavic)
• Shina
• Shina-Kohistani
• Shona
• Sindebele
• Sindarin (constructed)
• Sindhi
• Sindhi-Bhil
• Sinhalese
• Sioux
• Slovak (Slavic)
• Slovene (Slavic)
• Slovio (constructed Slavic)
• Solresol (constructed)
• Somali
• Sorbian (Slavic)
• Spanish (Romance)
• Sranan
• Sumerian (extinct)
• Swabian (Germanic)
• Swahili (Bantu)
• Swedish (Germanic)
• Swiss German (Germanic)
• Sudovian
• Sundanese

T

• Tagalog (Malayo-Polynesian)
• Tahitian
• Tajik
• Talossan
• Talysh
• Tamil
• Tavgi
• Telugu
• Tat
• Tatar, Kazan Tatar
• Teonaht
• Thai
• Tharu
• Thracian (extinct)
• Tibetan
• Ticonderoga
• Tigre
• Tigrinya
• Tigrignan
• Tocharian A and B
• Tok Pisin
• Toki Pona (constructed pidgin based on sources from around the world)
• Tonga
• Tongan
• Torwali
• Tsimshian
• Tswana
• Tupinamba
• Tupinkin
• Turkish
• Turkmen
• Tuvaluan
• Tuvan

U

• Uatakassí
• Ubykh (Northwest Caucasian)
• Udmurt (Votyak) (Finno-Ugric)
• Ukrainian (Slavic)
• Ulster Scots (Ullans) (The same language as Scots)
• Urdu
• Uripiv
• Ushojo
• Ute
• Uygur
• Uzbek

V

• Vaghri
• Veps (Finno-Ugric)
• Verdurian (constructed)
• Vietnamese
• Vogul
• Volapük (constructed, based on European languages)
• Vote (Finno-Ugric)
• Votyak

W

• Wakhi
• Walloon (Romance)
• Waneci
• Welsh (Celtic)
• Wenedyk
• Wolof
• Wu (Chinese)

X

• Xam
• Xhosa
• Xiang (Chinese)
• !Xu (!Kung) (Khoisan)

Y

• Yaghnobi
• Yakut
• Yapese
• Yazgulami
• Yenisey Samoyed
• Yiddish
• Yidgha
• Yoruba
• Yurak
• Yurats

Z

• Zangskari
• Zapotec
• Zazaki
• Zhuang
• Zulu
• Zuñi

Other websites

• Ethnologue language name index
• Articles and Information on the Languages of the world
• List of languages in use for every country of the world