Below is a
list of languages
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 la ...
without official status (or
minority language
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s) with at least two million speakers, ordered by the
number of total speakers. Unless otherwise noted, data of speakers are incorporated from ''
Ethnologue
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''.
Languages with no official status
Languages with official status in their region but not country
Languages with low regional status
(R) = Regional status
See also
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Lists of languages
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 l ...
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Official language
An official language is a language given supreme status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction. Typically the term "official language" does not refer to the language used by a people or country, but by its government (e.g. judiciary, ...
and
List of official languages
This is a list of official, or otherwise administratively-recognized, languages of sovereign countries, regions, and supra-national institutions. The article also lists a number of languages which have no administrative mandate as an official la ...
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List of official languages by country and territory
This is a list of official languages by country and territory. It includes all languages that have official language status either statewide or in a part of the state, or that have status as a national language, regional language, or minority lan ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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List of Wikipedias
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References
Sources
* ''Writing Systems of the World: Alphabets, Syllabaries, Pictograms'' (1990), — lists official languages of the countries of the world, among other information.
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