It also provides an index to English Misplaced Pages list articles listing languages.
This page is a list of lists of languages.
Published lists
- SIL International's Ethnologue: Languages of the World lists over 7,100 spoken and signed languages.
- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns codes for most languages; see ISO 639
- List of ISO 639-1 codes – two-letter codes (184 major languages)
- List of ISO 639-2 codes – three-letter codes
- ISO 639 macrolanguage – ISO 639-2 codes used as ISO 639-3 codes
- List of ISO 639-3 codes – three-letter codes, intended to "cover all known natural languages"
- List of ISO 639-5 codes – three-letter codes for language families and groups
- IETF language tag – depends on ISO 639, but provides various expansion mechanisms
- Glottolog
- Linguasphere Observatory (LS-2010, totaling over 32,800 coded entries and over 70,900 linguistic names)
English Misplaced Pages list articles
Comprehensive lists
Lists which are global in scope (all living natural languages would classify for inclusion):
- by country:
- by name: List of language names (native names)
- by phylogenetic relation: List of language families (phylogenetic)
- chronologically: List of languages by first written accounts
- by number of speakers:
- List of languages by number of words according to authoritative dictionaries
By region
- Languages of Africa
- Indigenous languages of the Americas
- Languages of Asia
- Languages of Europe
- Languages of Oceania
By special type or property
Extinct, endangered or revived languages
- Lists of extinct languages
- Lists of endangered languages
- List of revived languages
- Regional language
By status or cultural sphere of influence
- List of lingua francas
- List of official languages
- Languages used on the Internet (includes a list of languages with the most prevalence online)
- List of mutually intelligible languages
Special types of languages
- List of creole languages
- List of mixed languages
- List of pidgins, creoles, mixed languages and cants based on Indo-European languages
- List of sign languages
- List of constructed languages
See also
- List of language self-study programs
- List of most commonly learned foreign languages in the United States
- List of linguists
- List of shorthand systems
- List of writing systems
- Lists of dialects and varieties
- Lists of computer languages
- Omniglot
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