List of languages

This list of languages is alphabetical by English name. For a more structured list, see Language families and languages, ISO 639 or List of languages by total speakers.

Ethnologue lists about 6,800 main languages in its language name index (see the external link) and distinguishs about 41,000 alternate language names and dialects.

This is a list of natural and constructed languages spoken by humans. See also a list of programming languages.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• Afrikaans
• Ainu
• Albanian
• Aleut
• Algonquin
• Amhara
• Amharic
• Anglo-Saxon
• Apache
• A-Pucikwar
• Arabic / عربية (Semitic)
• Aragonese
• Aramaic
• Arawak
• Armenian
• Assamese
• Assyrian
• Asturian
• Avestan
• Azerbaijani

B

• Balochi
• Bambara
• Bavarian
• Basque
• Belarusian (Slavic)
• Bemba
• Berber
• Bété
• Biafran
• Bihari
• Bikya
• Blackfoot
• Bosnian (Slavic)
• Brahui
• Breton
• Bulgarian (Slavic)
• Burmese

C

• Camunic (extinct)
• Cantonese (Chinese)
• Carib
• Catalan (Romance)
• Catawba
• Cayuga
• Cebuano (Malayo-Polynesian)
• Chagatai
• Chechen
• Chichewa
• Cocoma
• Cornish
• Croate* Slavic)
• Czech (Slavic)

D

• Danish / Dansk (Germanic)
• Dargestani
• Dida
• Duala
• Dungan
• Dutch / Nederlands (Germanic)

E

• Ekspreso
• English (Germanic)
• Esperanto (constructed, based on European languages)
• Estonian (Finno-Ugric)
• Etruscan

F

• Faeroese
• Farsi
• Flemish
• Filipino
• Finnish / Suomi (Finno-Ugric)
• French Créole
• French / Français (Romance)
• Frisian
• Fulania
• Furu

G

• Gaelic
• Galician
• Gayo
• Ge'ez
• Georgian
• German / Deutsch (Germanic)
• Greek
• Guaraginga
• Guarani

H

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

I

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

J

• Japanese / 日本語
• Javanese
• Judaeo-Spanish

K

• Kabyle
• Kankonian
• Kannada
• Kaonda
• Kashubian
• Kawi
• Kazakh
• Khmer
• Kinyarwanda
• Kiswahili
• Klingon (constructed)
• Korean / 한국어
• Korowai
• Kurdish
• Kyrgyz

L

• Láadan
• Ladin
• Lakhota
• Lao
• Latin / Latina
• Latvian (Baltic)
• Lenni Lenape
• Lithuanian (Baltic)
• Livonian
• Loglan (constructed)
• Lojban (constructed, based on Loglan)
• Lozi
• Lunda
• Luvale

M

• Macedonian (Slavic)
• Macedoromanian (Romance)
• Makasar
• Malagasy
• Malayalam
• Maltese
• Manchurian
• Mandarin (Chinese)
• Manx (Manx Gaelic)
• Maori
• Maya
• Megleno-Romanian
• Michif
• Minangkabau
• Mobilian
• Mohawk
• Mon
• Mongolian

N

• Nahuatl
• Nauruan
• Navajo
• New Kypchak
• Nhengatu
• Nigerian pidgin
• Norn
• Norwegian / Norsk
• Novial (constructed, based on European languages)
• N/u
• Nyanja

O

• Occidental (constructed, based on European languages)
• Occitan
• Ojibwa
• Old Church Slavonic
• Old French
• Old Prussian (Baltic)
• Omagua
• Oromifa
• Ossetic

P

• Pashto
• Passamaquoddy
• Pennsylvania German
• Pirahã (Mura)
• Plautdietsch, Mennonite Low German
• Polish / Polski (Slavic)
• Portuguese / Português
• Potiguara
• Provencal
• Punjabi

Q

• Quechua
• Quenya (constructed)

R

• Rappahanock
• Rhaeto-Romance
• Romanian / Româna (Romance)
• Romansh
• Romany (Indo-Iranian)
• Russenorsk
• Russian / Русский (Slavic)

S

• Saami
• Salish
• Sanskrit (Indo-Iranian)
• Saramaccan
• Sardinian (Romance)
• Scots (Lallans)
• Scots Gaelic (Scottish Gaelic or Gaelic)
• Seminole
• Serbian (Slavic)
• Serbo-Croatian (Slavic)
• Shona
• Sindebele
• Sindarin (constructed)
• Sinhalese
• Sioux
• Slovak (Slavic)
• Slovene (Slavic)
• Slovio (constructed Slavic)
• Solresol (constructed)
• Somali
• Sorbian (Slavic)
• Spanish / Español (Romance)
• Sranan
• Swahili (Bantu)
• Swedish / Svenska (Germanic)
• Sudovian
• Sundanese

T

• Tagalog (Malayo-Polynesian)
• Tahitian
• Tajik
• Talossan
• Tamil
• Tatar
• Teonaht
• Thai
• Tibetan
• Ticonderoga
• Tigre
• Tigrinya
• Tigrignan
• Tok Pisin
• Toki Pona (constructed pidgin based on sources from around the world)
• Tonga
• Tongan
• Tsimshian
• Tswana
• Tupinamba
• Tupinkin
• Turkish / Türkçe
• Turkmen
• Tuvaluan
• Tuvan

U

• Ubykh (Northwest Caucasian)
• Ukrainian (Slavic)
• Ulster Scots (Ullans)
• Urdu
• Ute
• Uzbek

V

• Vietnamese
• Volapük (constructed, based on European languages)

W

• Walloon (Romance)
• Welsh (Celtic)
• Wolof

X

• /Xam
• Xhosa
• !Xu (!Kung) (Khoisan)

Y

• Yakut
• Yiddish
• Yoruba

Z

Only some major languages are listed here, see List of spoken and sign languages beginning with the letter Z for about 50 more

• Zapotec
• Zhuang
• Zulu

External link

Ethnologue language name index