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Languages By Speakers
This page is a list of lists of languages. Published lists *SIL International's '' Ethnologue: Languages of the World'' lists over 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, totalling over 32,800 coded entries & over 70,900 linguistic names) English Wikipedia list articles * Index of language articles Comprehensive lists Lists which are global in scope (all living natural languages would clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Wikipedia
The English Wikipedia is, along with the Simple English Wikipedia, one of two English-language editions of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. It was founded on January 15, 2001, as Wikipedia's first edition, and, as of , has the most articles of any edition, at . As of , of articles in all Wikipedias belong to the English-language edition; this share was more than 50% in 2003. The edition's one-billionth edit was made on January 13, 2021. Articles The English Wikipedia has pioneered some ideas as conventions, policies or features which were later adopted by Wikipedia editions in some of the other languages. These ideas include "featured articles", the neutral-point-of-view policy, navigation templates, the sorting of short "stub" articles into sub-categories, dispute resolution mechanisms such as mediation and arbitration, and weekly collaborations. It surpassed six million articles on 23 January 2020. In November 2022, the total volume of the compressed texts of it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Language Names
This article is a resource of the native names of most of the major languages in the world. These are endonymic glossonyms. Languages A Aari – Aari * Spoken in: Aasáx † – Aasá * Spoken in: Abaza – Aбаза бызшва * Official language in: , Abellen – Ayta Abellen * Spoken in: , Philippines Abenaki † – Alnôba, Wôbanakiôdwawôgan * Formerly spoken by: the American/Canadian Abenaki Tribe Abkhaz – Aҧсуа бызшәа, Aҧсшәа * Official language in: and the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Abui – Abui * Spoken in: Abure – ɔbule ɔyʋɛ * Spoken in: Acehnese – Aceh or Bahsa Acèh * Spoken in: Achang – Mönghsa, ŋa˨˩ʈʂhaŋ˨˩ * Spoken in: and Achi – achi' * Recognised Minority Language in: Achumawi † – Achomawi or Ajúmmááwí * Formerly spoken in: Adai † – Tenánat Hadéyas * Formerly spoken in: , Adangme – Adangbɛ * Official language in: Adangbe – Adangbe * Spoken in: Adele – Gidire * Spok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Languages By Writing System
Below is a list of languages sorted by writing system (by alphabetical order). Adlam alphabet * Fulfulde/Pular Afaka syllabary * Ndyuka (on occasion) Anatolian alphabets *Anatolian languages (extinct) Arabic script * Acehnese (on occasion, after the colonization by the Dutch) * Adyghe (before 1927 and Latin script 927–1938 now uses the Cyrillic script) *Afrikaans (briefly, in the early 19th century) *Arabic **Algerian **Egyptian ** Lebanese ** Moroccan ** Iraqi ** Tunisian and many other varieties of Arabic. * Afar (Kabir Hamza script) * Azerbaijani (Iran only) *Arwi * Bakhtiari * Balochi * Balti * Banjar * Bashkir * Belarusian (on occasion) *Bengali (Historical) (along with Bengali, Sylheti and Assamese script) * Berber *Bhadarwahi * Bosnian (formerly) * Brahui *Burushaski (on occasion) *Central Kurdish *Cham * Chechen (alongside the Georgian script) *Chinese in the Arabic-derived Xiao'erjing alphabet * Chittagonian * Comorian * Crimean Tatar (before 1928) *Dari *Dung ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Dictionaries By Number Of Words
This is a list of dictionaries considered authoritative or complete by approximate number of total words, or headwords, included. These figures do not take account of entries with senses for different word classes (such as noun and adjective) and homographs. Although it is possible to count the number of entries in a dictionary, it is not possible to count the number of words in a language. In compiling a dictionary, a lexicographer decides whether the evidence of use is sufficient to justify an entry in the dictionary. This decision is not the same as determining whether the word exists. The green background means a given dictionary is the largest in a given language. } (French: fiche) or "barge") (up to 100 meanings/records for each word or proper noun) until Dehkhoda's death in March 1956, and currently contains 343,466 entries that, according to the latest digital release of the dictionary by Tehran University Press (version 3.0) are based on an ever-growing library of over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Languages By Number Of Native Speakers
This article ranks human languages by their number of native speakers. However, all such rankings should be used with caution, because it is not possible to devise a coherent set of linguistic criteria for distinguishing languages in a dialect continuum. For example, a language is often defined as a set of varieties that are mutually intelligible, but independent national standard languages may be considered to be separate languages even though they are largely mutually intelligible, as in the case of Danish and Norwegian. Conversely, many commonly accepted languages, including German, Italian and even English, encompass varieties that are not mutually intelligible. While Arabic is sometimes considered a single language centred on Modern Standard Arabic, other authors describe its mutually unintelligible varieties as separate languages. Similarly, Chinese is sometimes viewed as a single language because of a shared culture and common literary language. It is also common to descr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Languages By Total Number Of Speakers
This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect. Some languages, such as Chinese and Arabic, cover several mutually unintelligible varieties and are sometimes considered single languages and sometimes language families. Conversely, colloquial registers of Hindi and Urdu are almost completely mutually intelligible, and are sometimes classified as one language, Hindustani, instead of two separate languages. Such rankings should be used with caution, because it is not possible to devise a coherent set of linguistic criteria for distinguishing languages in a dialect continuum. There is no single criterion for how much knowledge is sufficient to be counted as a second-language speaker. For example, English has about 370 million native speakers but, depending on the criterion chosen, can be said to have as many as 2 billion speakers. There are also difficulties in obtaining reliable counts of spea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Languages By First Written Accounts
This is a list of languages arranged by age of the oldest existing writing, text recording a complete sentence in the language. It does not include undeciphered scripts, though there are various claims without wide acceptance, which, if substantiated, would push backward the first attestation of certain languages. It also does not include inscriptions consisting of isolated words or names from a language. In most cases, some form of the language had already been spoken (and even written) considerably earlier than the dates of the earliest extant samples provided here. A written record may encode a stage of a language corresponding to an earlier time, either as a result of oral tradition, or because the earliest source is a copy of an older manuscript that was lost. An oral tradition of epic poetry may typically bridge a few centuries, and in rare cases, over a millennium. An extreme case is the Vedic Sanskrit of the ''Rigveda'': the earliest parts of this text may date to 1500 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Uralic Languages
Uralic is a language family located in Northern Eurasia, in the countries of Finland, Estonia, Hungary (where Uralic languages are spoken by the majority of the population), in other countries Uralic languages are spoken by a minority of the population, these languages are spoken in far-northern Norway (in most of the Finnmark region and other regions of the far-north), in far-northern Sweden (in some areas of Norrland), and Russia (where Uralic languages are also spoken by a minority of its population, although there is a significant number of speakers in some Federal subjects - republics and autonomous districts or autonomous okrugs of Northern Russia, these languages are spoken in Udmurtia, Komi Republic, Mordvinia, Mari-El, Karelia, in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and Taymyr Autonomous Okrug and also in the former area of Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug, now part of the Perm Krai, other areas where Uralic languages are spoken in Russia are for exa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Turkic Languages
The Turkic languages are a group of languages spoken across Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and Siberia. Turkic languages are spoken as native languages by some 200 million people. Turkic languages by subfamily The number of speakers derived from statistics or estimates (2022) and were rounded:https://glottolog.org/ Turkic languages by the number of speakers The Turkic languages are a language family of at least 35 documented languages, spoken by the Turkic peoples. The number of speakers derived from statistics or estimates (2019) and were rounded: Endangered Turkic languages An endangered language, or moribund language, is a language that is at risk of falling out of use as its speakers Language death, die out or language shift, shift to speaking another language. Language loss occurs when the language has no more native speakers and becomes a "dead language". 25 endangered Turkic languages exist in World. The number of speakers derived from statistic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Tungusic Languages
The Tungusic languages (also known as Manchu-Tungus and Tungus) form a language family spoken in Eastern Siberia and Manchuria by Tungusic peoples. Many Tungusic languages are endangered. There are approximately 75,000 native speakers of the dozen living languages of the Tungusic language family. Some linguists consider Tungusic to be part of the controversial Altaic language family, along with Turkic, Mongolic, and sometimes Koreanic and Japonic. The term "Tungusic" is from an exonym for the Evenk people (Ewenki) used by the Yakuts ("tongus"). It was borrowed into Russian as "тунгус", and ultimately transliterated into English as "Tungus". Classification Linguists working on Tungusic have proposed a number of different classifications based on different criteria, including morphological, lexical, and phonological characteristics. Some scholars have criticized the tree-based model of Tungusic classification, arguing the long history of contact among the Tungusic languag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mongolic Languages
The Mongolic languages are a language family that is spoken in East-Central Asia, mostly in Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region of China, Xinjiang, another autonomous region of China, the region of Qinghai, and also in Kalmykia, a republic of Southern European Russia. Mongolic is a small, relatively homogenous and recent language family whose common ancestor, Proto-Mongolian, was spoken at the beginning of the second millennium AD. However, Proto-Mongolian seems to descend from a common ancestor to languages like Khitan, which are sister languages of Mongolian languages (they do not descend from Proto-Mongolian but are sister languages from an even older language from the first millennium AD, i.e. Para-Mongolian). The Mongolic language family has about 6 million speakers. The best-known member of this language family, Mongolian, is the primary language of most of the residents of Mongolia and the Mongolian residents of Inner Mongolia, with an estimated 5.2 million sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Indo-European Languages
The Indo-European languages include some 449 (SIL International, SIL estimate, 2018 edition) languages spoken by about or more than 3.5 billion people (roughly half of the world population). Most of the major languages belonging to language branches and groups of Europe, and western and southern Asia, belong to the Indo-European language family. Therefore, Indo-European is the biggest language family in the world by number of mother tongue speakers (but not by number of languages in which it is the 3rd or 5th biggest). Eight of the top ten biggest languages, by number of native speakers, are Indo-European. One of these languages, English, is the ''de facto'' World Lingua franca, Lingua Franca with an estimate of over one billion second language speakers. Each subfamily or linguistic branch in this list contains many subgroups and individual languages. Indo-European language family has 10 known branches or subfamilies, of which eight are living and two are extinct. The relation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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