Language

Language is one way that humans communicate with each other. There are about 7,000 languages in the world. Half of them don't have a writing system. The most spoken language is Chinese, then comes English, Spanish, Hindi, and Portuguese.

Sometimes animals have a language of their own sort and they communicate to each other.

List of Languages in The World

Language Language code Notes Links

English

en
  • Category:English language
  • Index:English - very large

Abkhaz

ab
  • Category:Abkhaz language
  • Index:Abkhaz

Adyghe

ady
  • Category:Adyghe language

Afrikaans

af
  • Category:Afrikaans language
  • Index:Afrikaans

Akan

ak
  • Category:Akan language

Albanian

sq
  • Category:Albanian language
  • Index:Albanian - single page

American Sign Language

ase
  • Category:American Sign Language
  • Index:American Sign Language

Amharic

am
  • Category:Amharic language
  • Index:Amharic - m

Arabic

ar
  • Category:Arabic language
  • Index:Arabic - revised

Aragonese

an
  • Category:Aragonese language
  • Index:Aragonese - in progress

Aramaic

arc
  • Category:Aramaic language
  • Index:Aramaic

Armenian

hy
  • Category:Armenian language

Aymara

ay
  • Category:Aymara language
  • Index:Aymara - revised

Balinese

ban
  • Category:Balinese language
  • Index:Balinese

Basque

eu
  • Category:Basque language
  • Index:Basque - revised

Betawi

bew
  • Category:Betawi language
  • Index:Betawi

Bosnian

sh See #Serbo-Croatian

Breton

br
  • Category:Breton language
  • Index:Breton - started

Bulgarian

bg
  • Category:Bulgarian language
  • Index:Bulgarian - revised

Cantonese

yue
  • Category:Cantonese language
  • Index:Chinese - modified revision

Catalan

ca
  • Category:Catalan language
  • Index:Catalan -very incomplete - not updated since 2006

Cherokee

chr
  • Category:Cherokee language
  • Index:Cherokee

Chickasaw

clc
  • Category:Chickasaw language
  • Index:Chickasaw

Chinese

zh
  • Category:Chinese language
  • Category:CJKV radicals
  • Index:Chinese - modified revision

Coptic

cop
  • Category:Coptic language
  • Index:Coptic (not yet built)

Cornish

kw
  • Category:Cornish language
  • Index:Cornish

Corsican

co
  • Category:Corsican language
  • Index:Corsican

Crimean Tatar

crh
  • Category:Crimean Tatar language
  • Index:Crimean Tatar

Croatian

sh See #Serbo-Croatian

Czech

cs
  • Category:Czech language
  • Index:Czech

Danish

da
  • Category:Danish language
  • Index:Danish - revised

Dutch

nl
  • Category:Dutch language
  • Index:Dutch - multipage

Dawro

dwr
  • Category:Dawro language
  • Index:Dawro -
  • Wiktionary:Requested entries (Dawro)

Esperanto

eo
  • Category:Esperanto language
  • Index:Esperanto - revised

Estonian

et
  • Category:Estonian language
  • Index:Estonian - in progress

Ewe

ee
  • Category:Ewe language
  • Index:Ewe - multipage, in progress

Fiji Hindi

hif
  • Category:Fiji Hindi language
  • Index:Fiji Hindi - in progress

Filipino

fil See #Tagalog

Finnish

fi
  • Category:Finnish language
  • Index:Finnish - revised

French

fr
  • Category:French language
  • Index:French - short list

Galician

gl
  • Category:Galician language
  • Index:Galician

Georgian

ka
  • Category:Georgian language
  • Index:Georgian being set up

German

de
  • Category:German language
  • Index:German - reviser

Greek, Modern

el
  • Category:Greek language
  • Index:Greek - multipage index, updated

Ancient Greek

grc
  • Category:Ancient Greek language
  • Index:Ancient Greek

Greenlandic

kl
  • Category:Greenlandic language
  • Index:Greenlandic - in progress

Haitian Creole

ht
  • Category:Haitian Creole language
  • Index:Haitian Creole - started

Hawaiian

haw
  • Category:Hawaiian language
  • Index:Hawaiian - started

Hebrew

he
  • Category:Hebrew language
  • Index:Hebrew - a fairly small collection of words

Hindi

hi
  • Category:Hindi language
  • Index:Hindi - partial

Hungarian

hu
  • Category:Hungarian language
  • Index:Hungarian - in progress

Icelandic

is
  • Category:Icelandic language
  • Index:Icelandic - started

Indonesian

id
  • Category:Indonesian language
  • Index:Indonesian - revised

Inuktitut

iu
  • Category:Inuktitut language]
  • Index:Inuktitut - everyday words

Interlingua

ia
  • Category:Interlingua language
  • Index:Interlingua - partly revised

Irish

ga
  • Category:Irish language
  • Index:Irish

Italian

it
  • Category:Italian language
  • Index:Italian - built automagically from the latest dump

Japanese

ja
  • Category:Japanese language
  • Index:Japanese - modified revised

Javanese

jv
  • Category:Javanese language
  • Index:Javanese - few words

Kabardian

kbd
  • Category:Kabardian language

Kalasha

kls
  • Category:Kalasha language
  • Index:Kalasha - in progress

Kannada

kn
  • Category:Kannada language
  • Index:Kannada - just started

Kashubian

csb
  • Category:Kashubian language
  • Index:Kashubian - one word

Khmer

km
  • Category:Khmer language
  • Index:Khmer - recently created

Kinyarwanda

rw
  • Category:Kinyarwanda language
  • Index:Kinyarwanda -ing begun

Korean

ko
  • Category:Korean language
  • Index:Korean - started; character index

Kurdish/Kurdî

ku
  • Category:Kurdish language
  • Index:Kurdish - a few words

Ladin

lld
  • Category:Ladin language
  • Index:Ladin

Latgalian

ltg
  • Category:Latgalian language
  • Index:Latgalian

Latin

la
  • Category:Latin language
  • Index:Latin - generated automagically

Lingala

ln
  • Category:Lingala language
  • Index:Lingala - to be done

Livonian

liv
  • Category:Livonian language
  • Index:Livonian - started

Lojban

jbo
  • Category:Lojban language
  • Index:Lojban - short list

Lower Sorbian

dsb
  • Category:Lower Sorbian language
  • Index:Lower Sorbian - short list

Low German

nds-nl or nds-de
  • Category:Low German language
  • Index:Low German - short list

Macedonian

mk
  • Category:Macedonian language
  • Index:Macedonian

Malay

ms
  • Category:Malay language
  • Index:Malay - started

Malayalam

ml
  • Category:Malayalam language
  • Index:Malayalam - eleven words

Mandarin

cmn
  • Category:Mandarin language
  • Index:Chinese - modified revision

Manx

gv
  • Category:Manx language
  • Index:Manx - short list, setup for expansion

Maori

mi
  • Category:Maori language
  • Index:Maori - Short list of words but no sub-index.

Mauritian Creole

mfe
  • Category:Mauritian Creole language

Middle Low German

gml
  • Category:Middle Low German language
  • Index:Middle Low German

Min Nan

nan
  • Category:Min Nan language
  • Index:Chinese - modified revision

Mongolian

mn
  • Category:Mongolian language
  • Index:Mongolian - general setup

Norwegian

no
  • Category:Norwegian language
  • Index:Norwegian - revised

Old Armenian

xcl
  • Category:Old Armenian language

Old English

ang
  • Category:Old English language
  • Index:Old English - revised

Old French

fro
  • Category:Old French language
  • Index:Old French

Old Javanese

kaw
  • Category:Old Javanese language

Old Norse

non
  • Category:Old Norse language
  • Index:Old Norse - few words

Old Prussian

prg
  • Category:Old Prussian language
  • Index:Old Prussian - in progress

Oriya

or
  • Category:Oriya language
  • Index:Oriya - in progress

Pangasinan

pag
  • Category:Pangasinan language
  • Index:Pangasinan

Papiamentu

pap
  • Category:Papiamentu language
  • Index:Papiamentu

Pashto

ps
  • Category:Pashto language
  • Index:Pashto - revised

Persian

fa
  • Category:Persian language
  • Index:Persian - revised

Pitjantjatjara

pjt
  • Category:Pitjantjatjara language
  • Index:Pitjantjatjara

Polish

pl
  • Category:Polish language
  • Index:Polish - in progress

Portuguese

pt
  • Category:Portuguese language
  • Index:Portuguese - revised

Proto-Slavic

sla-pro*
  • Category:Proto-Slavic language
  • Index:Proto-Slavic

Quenya

qya
  • Category:Quenya language
  • Index:Quenya - empty

Rapa Nui

rap
  • Category:Rapa Nui language

Romanian

ro
  • Category:Romanian language
  • Index:Romanian - revised

Russian

ru
  • Category:Russian language
  • Index:Russian - revised (А, Б, B, Г, Е, Ё, Й complete)

Sanskrit

sa
  • Category:Sanskrit language
  • Index:Sanskrit - one word in Roman script

Scots

sco
  • Category:Scots language
  • Index:Scots - in progress

Scottish Gaelic

gd
  • Category:Scottish Gaelic language
  • Index:Scottish Gaelic - short list

Serbian

sh See #Serbo-Croatian

Serbo-Croatian

sh
  • Category:Serbo-Croatian language

Slovak

sk
  • Category:Slovak language
  • Index:Slovak - ever-growing list of Slovak words and their English equivalents

Slovene

sl
  • Category:Slovene language
  • Index:Slovene - short list

Spanish

es
  • Category:Spanish language
  • Index:Spanish - revised

Sinhalese

si
  • Category:Sinhalese language

Swahili

sw
  • Category:Swahili language
  • Index:Swahili - to be done

Swedish

sv
  • Category:Swedish language
  • Index:Swedish - revised

Tagalog

tl
  • Category:Tagalog language
  • Index:Tagalog - in progress

Tajik

tg
  • Category:Tajik language
  • Index:Tajik - in progress

Tamil

ta
  • Category:Tamil language
  • Index:Tamil - short list

Tarantino

roa-tar
  • Category:Tarantino language
  • Index:Tarantino - in progress

Telugu

te
  • Category:Telugu language
  • Index:Telugu - single word in Latin letters

Thai

th
  • Category:Thai language
  • Index:Thai - one word

Tok Pisin

tpi
  • Category:Tok Pisin language

Turkish

tr
  • Category:Turkish language
  • Index:Turkish - general setup

Twi

ak
  • Category:Akan language

Ukrainian

uk
  • Category:Ukrainian language
  • Index:Ukrainian - revised

Upper Sorbian

hsb
  • Category:Upper Sorbian language
  • Index:Upper Sorbian

Urdu

ur
  • Category:Urdu language
  • Index:Urdu - general setup

Uzbek

uz
  • Category:Uzbek language
  • Index:Uzbek - general setup

Venetian

vec
  • Category:Venetian language
  • Index:Venetian - built automagically from the latest dump

Vietnamese

vi
  • Category:Vietnamese language
  • Index:Vietnamese - general set up, a handful of words listed

Vilamovian

wym
  • Category:Vilamovian language
  • Index:Vilamovian

Volapük

vo
  • Category:Volapük language
  • Index:Volapük - large set up

Võro

vro
  • Category:Võro language
  • Index:Võro - started

Welsh

cy
  • Category:Welsh language
  • Index:Welsh - single

Xhosa

xh
  • Category:Xhosa language
  • Index:Xhosa - in progress

Yiddish

yi
  • Category:Yiddish language
  • Index:Yiddish - deprecated

Zazaki

zza
  • Category:Zazaki language
  • Index:Zazaki - general setup
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