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A

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# Abanyom ( Bantu )
# Abaza
# Abkhaz or Abkhazian
# Abujmaria ( Dravidian )
# Acehnese ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Adamorobe Sign Language ( Sign ing)
# Adele
# Adyghe
# Afrikaans
# Agul
# Aimaq , or Barbari
# Aini
# Ainu
# Akan
# Akawaio ( Carib )
# Akkadian ( Semitic ) (extinct)
# Aklanon ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Albanian
# Aleut ( Eskimo-Aleut )
# Algonquin
# Alemán Coloneiro ( Germanic )
# Aleturkisch ( Turkic and Germanic )
# Alsatian ( Germanic )
# Altay
# Alutor
# American Sign Language ( Sign ing)
# Amharic ( Semitic )
# Amorite ( Semitic ) (extinct)
# Anglo-Saxon ( Germanic )
# Amdang
# Ammonite ( Semitic ) (extinct)
# Andalusian ( Romance )
# Angaur ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Anlo
# Ao
# Southern Athabaskan Languages
# Arabic ( Semitic )
# Aragonese ( Romance )
# Aramaic ( Semitic )
# Arawakan Languages
# Are ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Argobba ( Semitic )
# Armenian
# Arpitan or Francoprovençal ( Romance )
# Arvanitic
# Ashkenazi Hebrew ( Semitic )
# Ashkun
# Assamese
# Assyrian Neo-Aramaic ( Semitic )
# Athabaskan Languages
# Ateso
# Asi
# Asturian ( Romance )
# Auslan ( Sign ing)
# Avar
# Avestan ( Iranian )
# Awadhi
# Aymara
# Azerbaijani ( Turkic )

B

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# Badaga ( Dravidian )
# Badeshi
# Bahnar ( Austroasiatic )
# Bajelan
# Balinese ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Balochi ( Iranian )
# Balti
# Bambara
# Banjar
# Banyumasan ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Basaa ( Bantu )
# Bashkir
# Batak Dairi
# Batak Karo
# Batak Mandailing
# Batak Simalungun
# Batak Toba
# Bats
# Bavarian ( Germanic )
# Beja
# Belarusian ( Slavic )
# Bellari ( Dravidian )
# Berta
# Bemba ( Bantu )
# Bengali ( Indo-Aryan )
# Bezhta ( North Caucasian )
# Beothuk
# Berber ( Afro-Asiatic )
# Bété
# Bhili
# Bhojpuri
# Biafran or Igbo
# Bihari
# Bijil Neo-Aramaic ( Semitic )
# Bikol ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Bikya (Furu)
# Blackfoot ( Algonquian )
# Boholano ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Bohtan Neo-Aramaic ( Semitic )
# Bokmål ( Germanic )
# Bolaang Mongondow
# Bolgar
# Bonan , also known as Paoan
# Bororo ( Bororoan )
# Bosnian ( Slavic )
# Brahui ( Dravidian )
# Breton ( Celtic )
# British Sign Language ( Sign ing)
# Bua
# Buginese ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Bukusu ( Bantu )
# Bulgarian ( Slavic )
# Burmese
# Burushaski
# Buryat

C

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# Caluyanon ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Camunic (extinct)
# Cantonese ( Sinitic )
# Carib
# Catawba
# Cayuga
# Cebuano ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Chabacano or Chavacano
# Chagatai
# Chaldean Neo-Aramaic ( Semitic )
# Chamorro ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Chaouia
# Chechen
# Chemakum
# Chenchu
# Chenoua
# Cherokee
# Cheyenne
# Chinese (Sinitic)
# Chiricahua ( Athabaskan )
# Chhattisgarhi
# Chichewa ( Bantu )
# Chipewyan ( Athabaskan )
# Chittagonian
# Choctaw ( Muskogean )
# Chorasmian ( Iranian )
# Chukchi
# Chulym
# Church Slavonic ( Slavic )
# Chuukese
# Chuvash ( Turkic )
# Cocoma
# Cocopa
# Coeur D’Alene
# Comorian ( Bantu )
# Coptic ( Egyptian )
# Cornish ( Celtic )
# Corsican
# Cree
# Crimean Tatar or Crimean Turkish ( Turkic )
# Croatian ( Slavic )
# Cuman
# Cumbric ( Celtic ) (extinct)
# Curonian
# Cuyonon ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Czech ( Slavic )

D

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# Dacian (extinct)
# Dahlik — "newly discovered" ( Semitic )
# Dalecarlian
# Dalmatian
# Dameli
# Danish ( Germanic )
# Dargin
# Dari (Zoroastrian) ( Iranian )
# Dari-Persian ( Iranian )
# Darkhat
# Daur , also known as Dagur
# Dena'ina
# Dhatki
# Dida
# Dioula or Jula
# Dirwali (also known as Gawri or Kalami )
# Divehi
# Dogri
# Dogrib or Tli Cho
# Dolgan
# Dongxiang
# Duala ( Bantu )
# Dumaki
# Dungan
# Dutch ( Germanic )
# Dzhidi
# Dzongkha

E

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# East Yurghur
# Eblaite ( Semitic ) (extinct)
# Edomite ( Semitic ) (extinct)
# Egyptian ( Afro-Asiatic )
# Egyptian Arabic ( Semitic )
# Ekoti ( Bantu )
# Elamite (extinct)
# Endegen ( Semitic )
# Enets (Yenisey Samoyed) ( Samoyedic )
# English ( Germanic )
# Ennemor (also called Inor) ( Semitic )
# Erzya ( Finno-Ugric )
# Esperanto
# Estonian ( Finno-Ugric )
# Etruscan
# Even
# Evenk
# Ewe
# Eyak
# Ezha ( Semitic )

F

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# Faeroese ( Germanic )
# Fang ( Bantu )
# Fars ( Iranian )
# Fijian ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Filipino ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Finnish ( Finno-Ugric )
# Finnish Sign Language ( Sign ing)
# Fon
# French Créole
# French ( Romance )
# French Sign Language ( Sign ing)
# Frisian ( Germanic )
# Friulian ( Romance )
# Fulani
# Fur

G

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# Ga
# Gadaba ( Dravidian )
# Gafat ( Semitic ) (extinct)
# Gagauz
# Galician ( Romance )
# Gangte
# Garhwali
# Gaulish
# Gayo ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Gazi ( Iranian )
# Ge’ez ( Semitic ) (extinct, liturgical use in Ethiopian Orthodox and Eritrean Orthodox Churches only)
# Gelangali
# Gen / Gen-Gbe, Mina
# Georgian ( South Caucasian )
# German / Deutsch ( Germanic )
# German Sign Language ( Sign ing)
# Ghomara
# Gĩkũyũ (Gikuyu) ( Bantu )
# Gilaki ( Iranian )
# Gilbertese (= ''(I-)Kiribati'') ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Goaria
# Goggot ( Semitic )
# Gondi ( Dravidian )
# Gorani ( Iranian )
# Gothic (extinct) ( Germanic )
# Gowari (also known as Gawarbati or Narsati )
# Greek
# Guanche
# Guaraginga
# Guaraní
# Gujarati ( Indo-Aryan )
# Gula Iro (Kulaal)
# Gumer ( Semitic )
# Gura ( Semitic )
# Gusii ( Bantu )
# Gurkhali
# Gwich’in ( Athabaskan )
# Gyeto ( Semitic )

H

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# Hadramautic ( Semitic )
# Hadza / Hatsa
# Haitian Creole
# Hakka
# Han
# Harari ( Semitic )
# Harauti
# Harsusi ( Semitic )
# Haryani
# Harzani ( Iranian )
# Hattic
# Hausa
# Havasupai
# Hawaiian ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Hawaii Pidgin Sign Language ( Sign ing)
# Hazaragi ( Iranian ) (a dialect of Persian
# Hebrew ( Semitic )
# Herero ( Bantu )
# Hertevin ( Semitic )
# Hiligaynon or Ilonggo ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Hindi ( Indo-Aryan )
# Hiraya - see Kinaray-a ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Hiri Motu
# Hittite ( Anatolian )
# Hixkaryana ( Carib )
# Hmong
# Ho ( Austroasiatic )
# Hobyót ( Semitic )
# Hopi
# Hulaula ( Semitic )
# Hungarian ( Finno-Ugric )
# Hurrian
# Hutterite German

I

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# Ibibio
# Icelandic ( Germanic )
# Iban ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Ibanag ( Malayo-Polynesian )

# Igbo
# Ikalanga ( Bantu )
# Ili Turki ( Turkic )
# Illinois
# Illyrian
# Ilokano or Ilocano ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Ilonggo ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Inari Sami
# Indonesian ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Ingrian
# Ingush
# Inneqor ( Semitic )

# Inuktitut ( Eskimo-Aleut )
# Inupiaq ( Eskimo-Aleut )
# Inuvialuktun ( Eskimo-Aleut )
# Iraqw ( Cushitic )
# Irish (Irish Gaelic) ( Celtic )
# Irish Sign Language ( Sign ing)
# Irkut
# Irula ( Dravidian )
# Isan
# Ishkashimi
# Istro-Romanian ( Romance )
# Italian / Italiano ( Romance )
# Izhorian ( Finno-Ugric )

J

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# Jacaltec
# Jalaa
# Japanese (日本語 , '''')
# Javanese ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Jibbali (also called Shehri) ( Semitic )
# Jicarilla
# Juang ( Austroasiatic )
# Judeo-Aramaic ( Semitic ) (extinct)
# Judeo-Crimean Tatar
# Jurchen

K

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# Kabardian ( Northwest Caucasian )
# Kabyle ( Berber )
# Kachin ( Tibeto-Burman )
# Kafiri
# Kalaallisut or Greenlandic ( Eskimo-Aleut )
# Kalash
# Kalasha-ala , also known as Waigali
# Kalmyk ( Mongolic )
# Kalto , also known as Nahali
# Kamas ( Samoyedic )
# Kamchadal , also known as Itelmen ( Paleosiberian )
# Kamvari
# Kankanai ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Kankonian
# Kannada ( Dravidian )
# Kaonde ( Bantu )
# Kapampangan ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Karachay-Balkar ( Turkic )
# Karagas
# Karaim
# Karakalpak ( Turkic )
# Karelian ( Finno-Ugric )
# Kashmiri ( Indo-Aryan )
# Kashubian ( Slavic )
# Kawi ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Kazakh ( Turkic )
# Kelen
# Kemi Sami ( Baltic-Finnic )
# Kensiu ( Austroasiatic )
# Kerek ( Paleosiberian )
# Ket ( Paleosiberian )
# Khakas
# Khalaj
# Kham ( Tibeto-Burman )
# Khandeshi
# Khanty (Ostyak) ( Finno-Ugric )
# Khasian ( Austroasiatic )
# Khazar
# Khirwar
# Khmer ( Austroasiatic )
# Khmu ( Austroasiatic )
# Khowari
# Khunsari
# Kichagga ( Bantu )
# Kildin Sami ( Baltic-Finnic )
# Kimatuumbi ( Bantu )
# Kinaray-a ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Kinyarwanda ( Niger-Congo ) ( Bantu )
# Kiribati (Kiribatese, Kiribatian) ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Kirombo ( Bantu )
# Kirundi ( Niger-Congo ) ( Bantu )
# Kivunjo ( Bantu )
# Klallam

# Kodava Takk (sometimes known in other languages as Kodagu or Coorgi) ( Dravidian )
# Kohistani (also known as Khili )
# Kolami ( Dravidian )
# Komi ( Finno-Ugric )
# Konda ( Dravidian )
# Konkani ( Indo-Aryan )
# Kongo ( Bantu )
# Koraga ( Dravidian )
# Korandje
# Korasani
# Korean / 한국어
# Korku ( Austroasiatic )
# Korowai
# Korwa ( Austroasiatic )
# Koryak ( Paleosiberian )
# Kosraean
# Kota ( Dravidian )
# Koyra Chiini
# Koy Sanjaq Surat ( Semitic )
# Koya ( Dravidian )
# Krimchak (Judeo-Crimean Tatar)
# Kujarge
# Kui ( Dravidian )
# Kumauni
# Kumyk ( Turkic )
# Kumzari
# Kurdish ( Iranian )
# Kurukh ( Dravidian )
# Kurumba ( Dravidian )
# Kuvi ( Dravidian )
# Kwanyama ( Bantu )
# Kyrgyz ( Turkic )

L

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# Laal
# Ladakhi
# Ladin ( Romance )
# Ladino ( Judeo-Spanish ) ( Romance )
# Lahnda
# Lakota (Lakhota)
# Lamani , also known as Banjari
# Lao
# Lappish
# Latin / Latina ( Romance )
# Latvian ( Baltic )
# Laz
# Lenni Lenape
# Lepontic
# Lezgi
# Ligbi (also known as Ligby)
# Limburgish ( Germanic )
# Lingala ( Bantu )
# Lipan
# Lishana Deni
# Lishan Didan
# Lishanid Noshan
# Lithuanian ( Baltic )
# Livonian ( Finno-Ugric )
# Lobedu ( Bantu )
# Lotha
# Low German (Low Saxon), Germany ( Germanic )
# Low German ( Plautdietsch ), Mennonite ( Germanic )
# Low Saxon (Low German), Netherlands ( Germanic )
# Lower Sorbian ( Slavic )
# Lozi ( Bantu )
# Lude
# Luganda ( Bantu )
# Luhya ( Bantu )
# Lummi
# Lunda ( Bantu )
# Luri ( Iranian ) (a branch of Persian)
# Lushootseed
# Lusoga ( Bantu )
# Luvale
# Luwati
# Luxembourgish ( Germanic )
# Lydian ( Anatolian )

M

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# Ancient Macedonian ( Greek )
# Macedonian ( Slavic )
# Macedoromanian ( Romance )
# Magadhi
# Maguidanao ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Mahican ( Algonquian )
# Mahl
# Maithili ( Indo-Aryan )
# Makasar
# Makhuwa-Meetto ( Bantu )
# Makua ( Bantu )
# Malagasy ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Malay ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Malayalam ( Dravidian )
# Malaysian Sign Language ( Sign ing)
# Maldivian ( Indo-Aryan )
# Maltese ( Semitic )
# Malto ( Dravidian )
# Malvi
# Mam ( Mayan )
# Manchurian ( Tungusic )
# Manda ( Dravidian )
# Mandaic ( Semitic )
# Mandarin ( Chinese )
# Mandinka ( Niger-Congo )
# Manipuri
# Mansi (Vogul) ( Finno-Ugric )
# Manx (Manx Gaelic) ( Celtic )
# Manyika ( Bantu )
# Maori ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Mapudungun (Mapuche) ( Language Isolate )
# Maranao ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Marathi ( Indo-Aryan )
# Mari (Cheremis) ( Finno-Ugric )
# Maria
# Marquesan ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Marshallese ( Micronesian )
# Masbatenyo
# Martha's Vineyard Sign Language ( Sign ing)
# Masaba ( Bantu )
# Masqan (also spelled Mesqan) ( Semitic )
# Mator
# Mauritian Creole
# Maya ( Mayan )
# Mayang
# Mazandarani ( Indo-Iranian )
# Meänkieli ( Finno-Ugric )
# Megleno-Romanian ( Romance )
# Megrelian
# Mehri ( Semitic )
# Menominee ( Algonquian )
# Mentawai ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Meroitic
# Merya
# Mescalero ( Athabaskan )
# Mesmes ( Semitic )
# Messapian
# Miami ( Algonquian )
# Michif ( Algonquian )
# Mi’kmaq ( Algonquian )
# Minaean ( Semitic )
# Minangkabau ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Mlahsö ( Semitic ) (extinct)
# Moabite ( Semitic ) (extinct)
# Mobilian ( Muskogean )
# Moghol ( Mongolic )
# Mohawk ( Iroquoian )
# Mohegan ( Algonquian )
# Moksha ( Finno-Ugric )
# Molengue ( Bantu )
# Mon ( Austroasiatic )
# Mongolian ( Mongolic )
# Mono ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Montagnais ( Algonquian )
# Motu ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Mpre
# Mufasa
# Muher ( Semitic )
# Mundari ( Austroasiatic )
# Munji
# Muria
# Muromian
# Murut

N

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# Nafaanra
# Nagarchal
# Nahuatl
# Naiki ( Dravidian )
# Nama
# Nanai
# Nangalami
# Natanzi
# Nauruan
# Navajo or Navaho
# Nayini
# Ndau ( Bantu )
# Ndebele ( Bantu )
# Ndonga ( Bantu )
# Neapolitan ( Romance )
# Negidal
# Nenets (Yurak) ( Samoyedic )
# Nepal Bhasa (Newari)
# Nepali
# New Kypchak
# New Zealand Sign Language ( Sign ing)
# Nganasan (Tavgi) ( Samoyedic )
# Ngumba ( Bantu )
# Nhengatu
# Nicaraguan Sign Language ( Sign ing)
# Nicobarese
# Niellim
# Nigerian Pidgin
# Niuean
# Nivkh (Gilyak)
# Nogai
# Norfuk
# Norman French
# Norn
# Northern Sami
# Northern Sotho ( Niger-Congo ) ( Bantu )
# North Yukaghir
# Norwegian ( Germanic )
# N/u
# Nuer
# Nuka , or Nuka-Dora
# Nuristani ( Indo-Iranian )
# Nuxalk
# Nyabwa
# Nyah Kur ( Austroasiatic )
# Nyangumarta Language
# Nyanja
# Nynorsk ( Germanic )
# Nyoro ( Bantu )

O

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# Occitan ( Romance )
# Oirat
# Ojibwe
# Olcha
# Old Church Slavonic ( Slavic )
# Old English ( Germanic ) (extinct)
# Old French ( Romance )
# Old French Sign Language ( Sign ing)
# Old Norse ( Germanic )
# Old Nubian Language
# Old Persian ( Iranian ) (extinct)
# Old Prussian ( Baltic )
# Old South Arabian
# Olonetsian (also known as Olonets or Livvi ) ( Finno-Ugric )
# Omagua
# Ongota
# Oriya
# Ormuri ( Iranian )
# Oroch
# Orochen
# Orok
# Oromifa
# Oropom
# Ossetic ( Iranian )
# Ottoman Turkish

P

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# Pahari
# Pahlavi ( Iranian )
# Palauan ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Pali
# Pangasinan
# Papiamento
# Parachi ( Iranian )
# Parauk ( Austroasiatic )
# Parji , also known as Duruwa ( Dravidian )
# Parya
# Pashayi ( Iranian )
# Pashto ( Iranian )
# Passamaquoddy
# Pecheneg
# Pemon ( Carib )
# Pengo ( Dravidian )
# Pennsylvania German ( Germanic )
# Persian ( Iranian )
# Phalura
# Phoenician Languages ( Semitic )
# Phrygian (extinct)
# Phuthi ( Bantu )
# Picard
# Pictish (extinct)
# Piraha ( Mura )
# Plautdietsch , Mennonite Low German ( Germanic )
# Polabian ( Slavic , extinct)
# Polish ( Slavic )
# Portuguese ( Romance )
# Potiguara
# Pradhan , also known as Pardhan
# Prasuni , also known as Wasi-weri
# Proto-Indo-European
# Provençal ( Romance )
# Pucikwar
# Puelche
# Punjabi

Q

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# Qashqai
# Qatabanian ( Semitic ) (extinct)
# Quebec Sign Language ( Sign ing)
# Quechua

R

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# Rajasthani
# Rappahanock
# Ratagnon ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Réunion Creole
# Romanian ( Romance )
# Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance) ( Romance )
# Romany ( Indo-Iranian )
# Romblomanon
# Rotokas ( East Papuan )
# Runyankole Language ( Bantu )
# Russenorsk ( Slavic )
# Russian ( Slavic )
# Russian Sign Language ( Sign ing)
# Ruthenian ( Slavic )

S

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# Sabaean ( Semitic ) (extinct)
# Salar ( Turkic )
# Salishan Languages
# Samaritan Hebrew ( Semitic )
# Sami (Lappish) ( Finno-Ugric )
# Samoan ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Sandawe ( Khoisan )
# Sangisari ( Iranian )
# Sanglechi ( Iranian )
# Sango (a Niger-Congo creole)
# Sanskrit ( Indo-Iranian )
# Santali ( Austroasiatic )
# Sara ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Saramaccan (a Germanic creole)
# Sardinian ( Romance )
# Sarikoli
# Savara
# Savi
# Sawai ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Scanian ( Germanic )
# Scots (Lallans) (includes Ulster Scots (Ullans); Germanic )
# Scots Gaelic (Scottish Gaelic Or Gaelic) ( Celtic )
# Selangor Sign Language ( Sign ing)
# Selchuk = Salchuq
# Selkup (Ostyak Samoyed) ( Samoyedic )
# Selonian
# Selti (also spelled Silt'e) ( Semitic )
# Seminole ( Muskogean )
# Semnani
# Senaya ( Semitic )
# Sened
# Senhaja De Srair
# Sepedi
# Sephardi Hebrew ( Semitic )
# Serbian ( Slavic )
# Serbo-Croatian ( Slavic )
# Sesotho ( Niger-Congo , ( Bantu )
# Seychellois Creole
# Shahrudi
# Shimaore ( Bantu )
# Shina
# Shona ( Niger-Congo ) ( Bantu )
# Shor
# Shughni
# Shumashti
# Sicilian ( Romance )
# Sidamo ( Cushitic )
# Sika ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Silesian
# Sindhi ( Indo-Iranian )
# Sindarin
# Sinhalese ( Indo-Iranian )
# Sioux ( Siouan )
# Siraiki
# Sivandi
# Skolt Sami ( Finno-Ugric )
# Slavey ( Athabaskan )
# Slovak ( Slavic )
# Slovenian ( Slavic )

# Soddo (also called Kistane) ( Semitic )
# Soi
# Somali ( Cushitic )
# Sonjo ( Bantu )
# Sonsorolese (or ''Sonsorol'', or ''Sonsoral'')
# Soqotri
# Sora ( Austroasiatic )
# Sorbian ( Slavic )
# Sotho ( Bantu )
# Southern Sami ( Finno-Ugric )
# South Yukaghir ( Paleosiberian )
# Spanish ( Romance )
# Sranan (a Germanic creole)
# Sucite
# Suba ( Bantu )
# Sudovian
# Sumerian (extinct)
# Sundanese ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Supyire
# Surigaonon
# Svan ( South Caucasian )
# Swabian ( Germanic )
# Swahili ( Bantu )
# Swati or Siswati ( Bantu )
# Swedish ( Germanic )
# Swiss German ( Germanic )
# Syriac ( Semitic )

T

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# Tabasaran ( Northeast Caucasian )
# Tachelhit ( Berber )
# Tagalog ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Tahitian ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Taiwanese Sign Language ( Sign ing)
# Tajik ( Iranian ) (a dialect of Persian)
# Takestani ( Iranian )
# Talossan
# Talysh ( Iranian )
# Tamil ( Dravidian )
# Tanacross ( Athabaskan )
# Tangut ( Tibeto-Burman ) (extinct)
# Tarifit ( Berber )
# Tat ( Indo-Iranian )
# Tatar, Kazan Tatar ( Turkic )
# Tausug ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Tehuelche ( Chon )
# Telugu ( Dravidian )
# Temiar, Northern Sakai ( Austroasiatic )

# Tetum ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Thai ( Tai-Kadai )
# Tharu ( Indo-Aryan )
# Thracian ( Indo-European ) (extinct)
# Tibetan ( Tibeto-Burman )
# Tigre ( Semitic )
# Tigrinya ( Semitic )
# Tirahi
# Tlingit ( Na-Dené )
# Tobian ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Tocharian A And B ( Indo-European )
# Toda ( Dravidian )
# Tok Pisin ( Pidgin )

# Tokelauan ( Austronesian )
# Tonga
# Tongan ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Tongva
# Trasianka (трасянка) ( Slavic )
# Tregami
# Tsat ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Tshiluba ( Bantu )
# Tshivenda - see Venda ( Bantu )
# Tsimshian
# Tsonga ( Bantu )
# Tswana (Setswana) ( Niger-Congo ) ( Bantu )
# Tu , also known as Monguor ( Mongolic )
# Tuareg Languages ( Berber )
# Tulu ( Dravidian )
# Tumbuka ( Bantu )
# Tupinamba ( Tupian )
# Tupinkin ( Tupian )
# Turkish ( Turkic )
# Turkmen ( Turkic )
# Turoyo ( Semitic )
# Turvali , also known as Torwali ( Indo-Iranian )
# Tuvaluan ( Polynesian )
# Tuvan (also known as Tuvin) ( Turkic )

U

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# Uatakassí
# Ubykh ( Northwest Caucasian )
# Udege
# Udmurt (Votyak) ( Finno-Ugric )
# Ugaritic ( Semitic ) (extinct)
# Ukrainian ( Slavic )
# Ulbare ( Semitic )
# Unserdeutsch ( Germanic )
# Upper Sorbian ( Slavic )
# Urdu ( Indic )
# Uripiv ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Urum
# Ute
# Uyghur
# Uzbek ( Turkic )

V

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# Vafsi
# Valencian Sign Language ( Signing )
# Venda — see Tshivenda ( Bantu )
# Veps ( Finno-Ugric )
# Vietnamese ( Austroasiatic )
# Visayan or ( Bisaya )
# Vote ( Finno-Ugric )
# Võro ( Finno-Ugric )

W

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# Waddar
# Waima ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Wakhi ( Iranian )
# Walloon ( Romance )
# Waneci
# Wapishana
# Waray-Waray ( Malayo-Polynesian )
# Washo
# Welsh ( Celtic )
# Western Neo-Aramaic ( Semitic )
# Weyto
# Wolane ( Semitic )
# Wolof
# Wotapuri-katarqalai
# Wu ( Chinese )

X

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# /Xam ( Khoisan ) (extinct)
# Xhosa ( Bantu )
# Xiang ( Hunanese ) or ( Hsiang ) ( Chinese )
# Xibe ( Tungusic )
# !Xóõ ( Khoisan )
# !Xu (!Kung) ( Khoisan )
# Xokó (Brazil, extinct)
# Xukurú (Brazil, extinct)

Y

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# Yaaku Language
# Yaeyama Language
# Yakut
# Yankunytjatjara Language
# Yanomami
# Yanyuwa Language
# Yapese
# Yaqui Language
# Yauma Language ( Bantu )
# Yavapai Language
# Yazdi ( Iranian )
# Yemenite Hebrew Language ( Semitic )
# Yeni Language
# Yevanic Language
# Yi Language
# Yiddish ( Germanic )
# Yogur (also known as Yoghur , (Mongolic) Sarï Uyghur , and (Mongolic) Yellow Uyghur , Mongolic )
# Yokutsan Languages
# Yonaguni Language
# Yorùbá Language
# Yucatec Maya Language
# Yucatec Maya Sign Language ( Sign ing)
# Yuchi Language
# Yugur (also known as Yughur , (Turkicic) Sarïgh Uyghur , and (Turkic) Yellow Uyghur , Turkic )
# Yukaghir Languages
# Yupik Language ( Eskimo-Aleut )
# Yurats Language
# Yurok Language

Z

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# Záparo ( Saparoan )
# Zapotec ( Oto-Manguean )
# Zazaki ( Iranian )
# Zenzontepec ( Oto-Manguean )
# Zhuang
# Zoque ( Mixe-Zoquean )
# Zulu ( Niger-Congo ) ( Bantu )
# Zuñi / Zuni
# Zway (also called Zay) ( Semitic )

SEE ALSO

Language

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EXTERNAL LINKS

Ethnologue language name index

Rosetta project

Language Museum