Lists of 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 Wikipedia 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
- List of languages by number of phonemes
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
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