This page lists published lists of languages.


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, totalling over 32,800 coded entries & over 70,900 linguistic names)



Index of language articles


Lists which are global in scope (all living natural languages would classify for inclusion):

by country: List of official languages by country and territory
by name: List of language names (native names)
by phylogenetic relation: List of language families (phylogenetic)
by primary language family: List of Afro-Asiatic languages, List of Austronesian languages, List of Indo-European languages, List of Mongolic languages, List of Tungusic languages, List of Turkic languages, List of Uralic languages.
chronologically: List of languages by first written accounts
by number of speakers:
List of languages by total number of speakers
List of languages by number of native speakers
List of languages by number of words according to authoritative dictionaries
List of languages by writing system


Languages of Africa
Indigenous languages of the Americas
List of Native American languages acquired by children
Languages of North America
Languages of South America
Languages of Asia
East Asian languages
Languages of South Asia
Languages of Southeast Asia
Languages of Europe
Languages of Oceania


Extinct, endangered or revived languages

Lists of extinct languages
List of languages by time of extinction
Lists of endangered languages
List of revived languagesBy status or cultural sphere of influence

List of lingua francas
List of official languages
List of official languages by state
List of official languages by institution
List of the largest languages without official status (major linguistic minorities, several million speakers)
Languages used on the Internet (includes a list of the 30 or so languages with the most prevalence online)
List of mutually intelligible languagesSpecial 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 English-based pidgins
List of sign languages
List of sign languages by number of native signers
List of constructed languages