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, totaling over 32,800 coded entries and 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 classify for inclusion):

by country:

• List of official languages by country and territory

• Number of languages by country

  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 Mayan languages, List of Mongolic languages, List of Oto-Manguean 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 number of phonemes

By region

• 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 Russia

• Languages of Oceania

• Oceanic languages

By special type or property

Extinct, endangered or revived languages

List of extinct languages

• List of extinct languages of Africa

• List of extinct languages of Asia

• List of extinct languages of Central America and the Caribbean

• List of extinct languages and dialects of Europe

• List of extinct languages of Oceania

• List of extinct languages of North America

• List of extinct languages of South America

• List of extinct Uto-Aztecan languages

• List of languages by time of extinction

• List of endangered languages

• List of endangered languages in Africa

• List of endangered languages in Asia

• List of endangered languages in Bangladesh

• List of endangered languages in Brazil

• List of endangered languages in Canada

• List of endangered languages in Central America

• List of endangered languages in Colombia

• List of endangered languages in China

• List of endangered languages in Europe

• List of endangered languages in India

• List of endangered languages in Indonesia

• List of endangered languages in Mexico

• List of endangered languages in Nepal

• List of endangered languages in North America

• List of endangered languages of Oceania

• List of endangered languages in Papua New Guinea

• List of endangered languages in Russia

• List of endangered languages in South America

• List of endangered languages in Sudan

• List of endangered languages in the United States

• List of endangered languages with mobile apps

• List of revived languages

  Regional language

Languages outside genealogical classification

• 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 proto-languages

• List of constructed languages

By status or cultural sphere of influence

• List of lingua francas

List of official languages

• List of official languages by country and territory

• List of official languages of international organizations

• Languages used on the Internet (includes a list of languages with the most prevalence online)

• List of mutually intelligible languages

See also

• List of language self-study programs

• List of most commonly learned foreign languages in the United States

• List of linguists

• List of shorthand systems

• List of writing systems

• Lists of dialects and varieties

Lists of computer languages

• Lists of programming languages

• List of ontology languages

• List of modeling languages

• List of markup languages

• Omniglot