List of language names
This article is a resource of how to say the native name of most of the major languages in the world. These are endonymic.
Languages
- ǃxóõ- Spoken in: Ghanzi, Kgalagadi, Kweneng, Southern Districts and Hardap
- Spoken in: Tanzania
Abellen – Ayta Abellen
- Spoken in: the Tarlac province in the Philippines
- Formerly Spoken by: the American/Canadian Abenaki Tribe
- Official Language in: the Republic of Abkhazia and the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia
- Spoken in: Indonesia
- Spoken in: Côte d’Ivoire/Ivory Coast
Achi - achi'
Achinese - Aceh or Bahsa Acèh
- Spoken in: Indonesia
- Formerly Spoken in: California
- Formerly Spoken in: Louisiana in the United States
- Official Language in: the Republic of Ghana
- Spoken in: the Republic of Togo
Adioukrou - mɔjukru
- Spoken in: Ivory Coast
- Spoken in: Australia
- Western Circassian language. Official Language in: the Republic of Adygea, Russian Federation
- Spoken also in Turkey, Israel, Syria, Iraq, Germany, United States, Netherlands etc.
Afar – Qafár af
- National Language in: the State of Eritrea
Afrikaans – Afrikaans
- Official Language in: the Republic of South Africa
- Recognised Minority Language in: the Republic of Botswana and the Republic of Namibia
- Spoken in: Guatemala
- Spoken in: Cameroon
- Official Language of: Dagestan
- Official Language of: Alaska
- Recognised Minority Language in: Japan
- Official Language in: Houaïlou, New Caledonia, French Republic
Akkadian † - akkadû or ????
- Formerly an Official language in: Akkad or central Mesopotamia which is Modern day Iraq
- Later it became a lingua franca in the Middle East and Egypt
- Formerly spoken in: Russia
- Official Regional Language in: the Philippines
- Spoken in: Cameroon and Nigeria
Albanian – Shqip, Shqiptar
- Official Language in: the Republic of Albania and Kosovo
- Recognised Minority Language in: the Italian Republic, Montenegro, North Macedonia , Romania, and the Republic of Serbia
- Spoken in: Algeria , Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger and Western Sahara
- Official language in: Alaska, United States
- Spoken in: Kamchatka Krai, Russian Federation
Altai - Алтай тили
- Spoken in: the Russian republic of Altai
- Spoken in: the Wadi Fira Region, Republic of Chad
- Official Language in: the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
- Spoken in: Nigeria
- Formerly Spoken in: Ancient Egypt
- Spoken in: a lot of the Mediterranean Sea
- Formerly spoken in: Al-Andalus or modern day Spain and Portugal
Spoken In: Ethiopia
Angika - अंगिका
- Official Language in: Jharkhand in the Republic of India
- Spoken in: Democratic Republic of Nepal
- Spoken in: the United Kingdom
- Spoken in: The Southwestern United States of America
- Spoken in: Great Plains of United States of America
- Spoken in: Peru
- Official Language in: 27 countries and 4 international organizations
- Official Language in: the Autonomous Community of Aragón, Kingdom of Spain
- Spoken in: the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Republic of Iraq, the State of Israel, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Lebanese Republic, the State of Palestine, the Syrian Arab Republic, and the Republic of Turkey
- Spoken by: the Native American tribe of the Arapaho
- Spoken in: Italy
- Spoken in: Dagestan, Russia
- Spoken in: North Dakota, United States
- Formerly Spoken in: Russia
- Official Language in: Armenia and Artsakh
- Recognised Minority Language in: the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Poland, and Romania, Samtskhe-Javakheti, Republic of Hungary, Republic of Iraq, Republic of Lebanon, Republic of Turkey, Ukraine and California, United States
- Spoken in: France and Switzerland
- Recognised Minority Language in: Italy
- Spoken in: the Northern Territory, Commonwealth of Australia
- Spoken in: Greece
- Spoken in: the Kingdom of Bhutan, the People's Republic of Bangladesh, and the Republic of India
- Spoken in: Canada and the United States
- Spoken in: the Principality of Asturias, Kingdom of Spain
- Official Language in: Australia
- Spoken in: Quebec in Canada
- Spoken in: the Republic of Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Republic of Turkey, and the Republic of Dagestan, Russian Federation
- Spoken on: the eastern Iranian Plateau
- Spoken in: India
- Spoken in: Kenya
- Spoken in: Libya
Aymara – Aymar Aru
- Spoken by: the Bolivian/Chilean/Peruvian Aymara people
- Spoken in: the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China
- Official Language in: the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Dagestan, Russian Federation
- Spoken in: Iran, Turkey and Georgia
- Spoken in: Guerrero in Mexico
- Spoken in: British Columbia in Canada
- Formerly Spoken in: the Republic of Guinea
- Spoken in: the Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China
- Spoken in: Vanuatu
- Spoken in: Bali, Republic of Indonesia
- Spoken in: Baltistan, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, Republic of India
- Spoken in: the Republic of Mali
- Formerly Spoken in: Subsaharan Africa
- Formerly Spoken in: Chanchaga, Niger State, Federal Republic of Nigeria
- Official Language in: the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan
- Official Language in: Basque Country, Kingdom of Spain and Navarre, Kingdom of Spain
- Spoken by: Liberian/Sierra Leonean Bassa People
- Spoken by: the Batak people of the North Sumatra, Republic of Indonesia
- Official Language in: the Republic of Belarus
- Recognised Minority Language in: Ukraine
- Official Language in: the Republic of Zambia
- Official Language in: the People's Republic of Bangladesh and the Republic of India
- Spoken in: Northern Africa
- Spoken in: the Benishangul-Gumuz Region, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
- Spoken in: Bihar, Republic of India ; Jharkhand, Republic of India ; Uttar Pradesh, Republic of India ; Co-operative Republic of Guyana ; Republic of Suriname ; and Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
- Spoken in: Guinea Bissau
- Official Language in: Republic of Vanuatu
- Spoken by: the American/Canadian Blackfoot Tribe
- Spoken in: Republic of India and Democratic Republic of Nepal
- Official Language in: Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro
- Recognised Minority Language in: Republic of Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Republic of Serbia
Buginese - ᨅᨔ ᨕᨘᨁᨗ
- Spoken in: South Sulawesi, Republic of Indonesia
- Spoken in: Mindoro, Philippines
- Official Language in: Republic of Bulgaria and Mount Athos, the Autonomous Monastic State of the Holy Mountain, Hellenic Republic
- Recognised Minority Language in: Romania, Republic of Serbia, and Ukraine
- Official Language in: Republic of the Union of Myanmar
- Spoken in: Ethiopia
- Spoken in: Oklahoma in the United States
- Spoken in: the southern area of the State of California, United States
- Spoken In: Bolivia
- Official Language in:Hong Kong Special Administration Region, People's Republic of China, Macau special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China
- Spoken in: British Columbia, Canada
- Official Language in: Principality of Andorra ; the Balearic Islands, Kingdom of Spain ; Catalonia, Kingdom of Spain ; and the Valencian Community, Kingdom of Spain
- Recognised Minority Language in: Pyrénées-Orientales, French Republic ; Sardinia, Italian Republic ; and Aragón, Kingdom of Spain
- Formerly Spoken in: North Carolina in the United States
- Spoken by: the Iroquois Cayuga people living in the Canadian First Nation reservation of the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation
- Spoken in: Central Visayas and Mindanao, Philippines
- Spoken in: Oaxaca in Mexico
- Spoken In: Cambodia
- Official Language in: Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
- Official Language in: the Chechen Republic, Russian Federation and the Republic of Dagestan, Russian Federation
- Official language in: the Native American tribe of the Cherokee, in Oklahoma
- Official Language in: Republic of Malawi and Republic of Zambia
- Spoken in: Montana, United States and Oklahoma, United States
- Spoken in: Republic of India
- Spoken in: Oklahoma, United States
- Official Language in: the Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace ; the People's Republic of China ; Republic of Singapore ; Republic of China ; and the Wa State, Republic of the Union of Myanmar
- Recognised Minority Language in: Malaysia, the Philippines, and the United States
- Spoken in: the People's Republic of China, Japan, the Korean Peninsula, the Republic of China, and Socialist Republic of Vietnam
- Spoken in: Canada
- Spoken In: Bangladesh
- Spoken In: Bhutan
- Spoken in: The United States of America
- Spoken In: Russia in the Chukotskiy Automonous Okrug
- Official Language in: the Chuvash Republic, Russian Federation
- Spoken in: the Italian Republic
- Spoken in Cocos Islands, Australia and Malaysia
- Spoken in: Oklahoma, United States
- Official Language in: Cook Islands
- The Coptic language is a Coptic liturgical language
- Recognised Minority Language in: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Recognised Minority Language in: the French Republic
- Official Language in: the Northwest Territories, Canada
- Official Language in: Crimea, Ukraine
- Official Language in: Bosnia and Herzegovina ; Republic of Croatia ; and Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia
- Recognised Minority Language in: Burgenland, Republic of Austria ; Baranya County, Southern Transdanubia, Hungary ; Molise, Italian Republic ; Montenegro ; Carașova, Caraș-Severin County Romania ; and Lupac, Caraș-Severin County, Romania
- Formerly Spoken in: the southern area of the State of California, United States
- Recognised Minority Language in: Cyprus
- Official Language in: the Czech Republic
- Spoken in: Sudan
- Official Language in: the Republic of India and the United Arab Emirates
- Spoken in: Canada and the United States
- Spoken in: Kingdom of Sweden
- Official Language in: Kingdom of Denmark and the Faroe Islands
- Recognised Minority Language in: Federal Republic of Germany, Greenland, and Republic of Iceland
- Official Language in: the Republic of Dagestan, Russian Federation
- The Dari language is a Zoroastrian liturgical language
- Official Language in: the Republic of the Maldives
- Spoken in: Middle East, North Africa and the Caucasus
- Official Language in: Lifou, New Caledonia
- Spoken by: the Central Asian Dungan people
- Spoken In: Bhutan
- Official Language in: Aruba, Kingdom of Belgium, Country of Curaçao,, the Netherlands,, Sint Maarten,, and Republic of Suriname,
Dzongkha - རྫོང་ཁ་
- Official Language in: Kingdom of Bhutan
- Spoken in: Guangxi in China
- Formerly Spoken in: Lower Egypt
- Official Language in: 54 countries and 27 non-sovereign entities
- Official Language in: the Republic of Mordovia, Russian Federation
- International Auxiliary Language
- Official Language in: Republic of Estonia
- Spoken in: Siberia
- Spoken in: the Chinese provinces of Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia, the Mongolian aimag of the Selenge Province, and the Russian krai of Krasnoyarsk Krai
- Spoken by: the Beninois/Togolese Ewe people
- Spoken in: Salamanca in Spain
Fala - Fala
- Spoken in: Spain
- Official Language in: the Faroe Islands
- Recognised Minority Language in: Denmark
- Official Language in Fiji
- Spoken in: Fiji
- Official Language in: the Philippines
- Official Language in: Finland and the Russian autonomous republic of Karelia ; recognised as a minority language in Sweden
- Spoken by: the Beninois/Nigerian Fon people
- Official Language in: 38 countries, 14 dependant entities, and 119 international organisations
- Official Language in: the German archipelago of Heligoland and the German district of Nordfriesland
- Spoken in: the German municipality of Saterland
- Official Language in: the Dutch province of Friesland
- Spoken in: Italy
- Spoken in: Central Africa
- Spoken in: the Republic of Chad and Darfur, Republic of the Sudan
- Official Language in: Ghana
Galician – Galego
- Official Language in: the Spanish autonomous community of Galicia
- Recognised Minority Language in: France mainly: Brittany, Normandy
Garre- ?
- Spoken in: Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya
- Spoken in: Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Israel
- Official Language in: Georgia
- Official Language in: Austria, the Belgian German-Speaking Community, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the Italian autonomous province of South Tyrol, and Switzerland
- Recognised Minority Language in: the Brazilian city of Pomerode, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, the Italian autonomous province of Trentino, Kazakhstan, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Russia, the Slovak municipality of Krahule, and the Vatican City
- Spoken in: the Kenyan Central Province
- Official Language in: Kiribati
- Spoken in: the southwest area of the Russian autonomous republic of Dagestan
- Formerly Spoken in: pre-18th. Century Europe
- Official Language in: Cyprus and Greece
- Recognised Minority Language in: Albania, Armenia, Hungary Italy, Romania, Turkey, and Ukraine
- Official Language in: Greenland
- Spoken in: Grenada
- Official Language in: the Argentinian province of Corrientes, Bolivia, and Paraguay
- Official Language in: the Indian union territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, and the Indian state of Gujarat
- Spoken in: the Benishangul-Gumuz Region, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
- Official Language in: the Indian state of Sikkim
- Official Language in: the Canadian federal territory of the Northwest Territories
- Official Language in: the Council of the Haida Nation and the US state of Alaska
- Spoken in: the Chinese province of Hainan
- Official Language in: Haiti
- Spoken by: the Hakka people
- Spoken in: the Ethiopian kilil of the Harari Region
- Spoken in: Haryana in India
- Spoken by: the Hausa people
- Official Language in: the American state of Hawaii
- Official Language in: Israel
- The Hebrew language is a Jewish liturgical language
- Spoken in: Botswana and Namibia
- Spoken in: Gabon
- Official Language in: India
- Spoken in: India and Pakistan
- Official Language in: Papua New Guinea
- Spoken in: China, French Guiana, Laos, Thailand, America, and Vietnam
- Spoken in: the northeastern area of the State of Arizona, United States
- Official Language in: Hungary
- Recognised Minority Language in: Austria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine
- Official Language in: Iceland
- International auxiliary language
- Official Language in: Nigeria
- Recognised Minority Language in: Equatorial Guinea
- Spoken in: the Republic of Uganda
- Spoken in: China
- Official Language in: the Philippine province of La Union
- Official Language in: Indonesia
- Official Language in: the Russian autonomous republic of Ingushetia
- International auxiliary language
- International Auxiliary language
- Zonal constructed language for Slavs
- Official Language in: Nunavut in Canada
- Spoken In: Nunavut in Canada
- Official Language in: the Canadian provinces of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut ; the Nunavik area of the Canadian province of Quebec ; and the Canada-administrated/Inuit-claimed autonomous area of Nunatsiavut
- Official language in: the American state of Alaska
- Official Language in: Ireland
- Recognised Minority Language in: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Istro Romanian - Istroromånă
- Recognised Minority Language in: Istria County, Italy, Sweden, Germany and North America and South America
- Official Language in: the Croatian Istria County, Italy, San Marino, the Slovenian region of Slovenian Istria, Switzerland, and the Vatican City
- National Language in: Japan
- Official Language in: Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Judaeo-Spanish -, Ladino
- Spoken by: the Sephardim Jewish Diaspora
- Spoken in: Denmark
- Spoken in: the British crown dependency of Jersey and the British royal fief of Sark
- Eastern Circassian language. Official Language in: the Russian autonomous republics of Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia
- Spoken also in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Germany, United States, Netherlands etc.
- Spoken in: Algeria
- Spoken in: Brazil
- Spoke In: Brazil
- Official Language in: the Indian state of Karnataka
- Spoken in: Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria
- Official Language in: the Uzbek autonomous republic of Karakalpakstan
- Spoken in: the Moroto District, Karamoja Sub-Region, Northern Region, Republic of Uganda
- Recognised Minority Language in: Finland and the Russian autonomous republic of Karelia
- Official Language in: India
- Official Language in: Some communes in the Polish voivodeship of Pomerania
- Official Language in: Kazakhstan and the Russian autonomous republic of the Altai Republic
- Spoken in: the Malaysian state of Kelantan
- Spoken in: Ouaddaï Region, Republic of Chad
- Spoken in: the middle Yenisei basin in Krasnoyarsk Krai in Russia
- Spoken in: the Russian autonomous republic of Khakassia
- Official Language in: Cambodia
- National Language in: Namibia
- Official Language in: Pakistan
- Spoken In: Indonesia
- Official Language in: Rwanda
- Official Language in: Kiribati
- Official Language in: the Indian state of Goa
- Official Language in: North Korea, South Korea, and the Chinese autonomous prefecture of Yanbian
- Official Language in: Kosrae in Micronesia
- Spoken In: East New Britain Province in Papua New Guinea
Spoken in: Eritrea and Ethiopia
Kuliak – Rub
- Spoken in: the Republic of Uganda
- Official Language in: the Russian autonomous republic of Dagestan
- Official Language in: Iraq Turkey Iran Syria Armenia
- Recognised Minority Language in: Germany
- Spoken in: Iran and Iraq
- Spoken in: Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria
- Spoken in: South Asia
- Formerly Spoken in: Angola
- Spoken in: Chad
- Spoken in: China, India, and Pakistan
- Spoken in: Italy
- Spoken In: Wangdue Phodrang and Trongsa
- Spoken by: the Lakota people
- Official Language in: Laos
- Official Language in the Vatican City
- Formerly spoken in the Roman Republic, Roman Empire, and in legal court
- Official Language in: Latvia
- Spoken in: Georgia and Turkey
- Official Language in: the Spanish autonomous community of Castile and León
- Official Language in: the Indian state of Sikkim
- Official Language in: the Indian state of Sikkim
- Official Language in: the Netherlands
- Official Language in: the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo
- Official Language in: the Chinese autonomous prefecture of Nujiang Lisu and the Chinese autonomous county of Weixi Lisu
- Official Language in: Lithuania
- Recognised Minority Language in: Poland
- Spoken in: Latvia
- Spoken in: Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands
Luba-Kasai – Tshiluba
- Spoken in: the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Spoken in: Uganda
- Spoken in: the southern area of the State of California, United States
- Spoken in: Kenya and Tanzania
Luxembourgish – Lëtzebuergesch
- Official Language in: Luxembourg
- Recognised Minority Language in: the Belgian community of the French Community of Belgium
- Spoken by: the Kenyan/Tanzanian Maasai people
- Official Language in: North Macedonia
- Recognised Minority Language in: Albania, Romania, and Serbia
- Official Language in: East Java in Indonesia
- Spoken in: India and Nepal
- Official Language in: the Indian state of Sikkim
- Official Language in: the Indian state of Bihar and Nepal
- Spoken in: the southern tip of the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi
- Official language in: Madagascar
Malayalam - മലയാളം
- Official Language in: the Indian state of Kerala and the Indian territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry
- Official Language in: Malta
- Spoken by: the Manchu people
- Spoken in: Most of China
- Official Language in: the Isle of Man
- Official Language in: the Indian state of Maharashtra and the Indian territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli
- Official Language in: the Marshall Islands
- Spoken in: Rajasthan in India
- Spoken in: Dar Masalit, Darfur, Republic of the Sudan
- Official Language in: the Indian state of Manipur
- Spoken in: the Illinois Confederation
- Spoken in: Mexico
- Spoken in: the southeastern area of China
- Spoken in: the Chinese prefecture-level city of Nanping
- Spoken in: the Chinese prefecture-level cities of Fuzhou and Ningde
- Spoken in: the southeastern area of China
- Spoken in: the southeastern area of China
- Spoken in: the Myanma delta of the Irrawaddy River
- Official Language in: the Chinese autonomous region of Inner Mongolia and Mongolia
- Official Language in: Montenegro
- Recognised Minority Language in: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Serbian municipality of Mali Iđoš in the autonomous region of Vojvodina
- Spoken in: Cambodia
Spoken in: Indonesia
Muscogee Creek – Mvskoke, Mvskokē
- Spoken in: the American states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Oklahoma
- Spoken in: Cameroon and Chad
- Formerly Spoken in: Chad
Spoken In: Mussau Island of St Matthias Islands and Emira Island part of Papua New Guinea
Māori – te Reo Māori
- Official Language in: New Zealand
- Formerly Spoken in: Cameroon
- Official Language in: Mexico
- Spoken by: the Navajo Nation
- Spoken in: French Guiana and Suriname
- Official Language in: the Indian state of Sikkim and Nepal
- Official Language in: the Indian district of the Darjeeling district, the Indian state of Sikkim, and Nepal
- Official Language in: New Zealand
- Formerly Spoken in: the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Spoken In: Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra in India
- Spoken in: the northern area of Thailand, and some other parts of Southeast Asia
- Official Language in: Norway
- Spoken in: China
- Spoken in: the Republic of Uganda
- Official Language in: the Spanish comarca of Val d'Aran
- Official Language in: the Indian states of Jharkhand and Odisha
- Spoken In: Russia Mongolia and China
- Spoken in: Indonesia
- Spoken by: the Ojibwe people
- Recognised Regional Language in: Japan
- Formerly Spoken in: Eastern Europe
Omotik † – Laamoot
- Formerly Spoken in: Great Rift Valley, Kenya
- Spoken in: Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Official Language in: Oromia in Ethiopia
- Recognised Minority Language in: Kenya
- Spoken In North Ossetia and South Ossetia in Georgia but there is a dispute with Russia and Georgia
Pahari - पहाड़ी
- Spoken in: the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal; Nepal, the Pakistani state of Azad Kashmir, and Greater Tibet
- Spoken in: the Pakistani district of the Chitral District
- Spoken in: Brazil
- Official language in: Afghanistan
- Recognised Minority Language in: Pakistan
- Spoken in: the Thai provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani, Songkhla, and Yala
- Official Language in: Afghanistan, Iran, and Tajikistan
- Formerly Spoken in: the Near East
- Spoken in: the State of Arizona, United States and the Free and Sovereign State of Durango, United Mexican States
- Spoken in: the Salvadoran cities of San Salvador and Sonsonate; and the Salvadoran department of La Libertad
- Spoken in: the Brazilian state of Amazonas.
- Spoken in: the northwestern area of the Australian state of South Australia
- Spoken in: Eastern Europe, with some scattered speakers in the Americas
- Official Language in: Poland
- Recognised Minority Language in: the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine
- Official Language in: Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, and São Tomé and Príncipe
- Official Language in: the Indian federal district of Delhi ; and the Indian states of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, and West Bengal
- Recognised Minority Language in: the Pakistani province of Punjab
- Spoken in: the Chinese county of Xianyou and the Chinese prefecture-level cities of Fuzhou, Putian, and Quanzhou
- Spoken by: the Quechuan people in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
- Spoken in: Spain
- Spoken in: the Pentecost Island, Republic of Vanuatu
- Spoken in: the Indian state of Rajasthan
- Official Language in: the Rakhine State
- Spoken by: the Romani people ; recognised as a minority language in Sweden
- Official Language in: Moldova, Romania, Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, and the Serbian autonomous province of Vojvodina
- Recognised Minority Language in: Hungary, Italy, Serbia, Spain, and Ukraine
- Formerly Spoken in: Bolivia
- Official Language in: Switzerland
- Official Language in: 10 Countries and 4 Organizations
- Recognised Minority Language in: 7 Countries
- Official Language in: The Serbian autonomous province of Vojvodina
- Recognised Minority Language in: Croatia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, and Slovakia
- Formerly Spoken in: the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Spoken in: Bougainville part of Papua New Guinea
Sami – anarâškielâ
- Recognised as a minority language in Finland
- Recognised as a minority language in Russia
- Recognised as a minority language in Norway, Sweden
- Recognised as a minority language in Finland, Norway, Sweden
- Recognised as a minority language in Norway, Sweden
- Recognised as a minority language in Russia, and formerly spoken in Norway
- Recognised as a minority language in Norway
- A moribund language spoken in Russia
- Recognised as a minority language in Sweden, and formerly in Norway
- Official Language in: American Samoa and Samoa
- Official Language in: India
- Official Language in: the Italian autonomous region of Sardinia
- Recognised Minority Language in: Italy
- Spoken in: the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu
- Recognised Minority Language in: Northern Ireland and Scotland
- Recognised Minority Language in: Scotland
- Official Language in: Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia
- Recognised Minority Language in: Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania and Slovakia
- Official Language in: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro Serbia
- Recognised Minority Language in: Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, North Macedonia, Romania and Slovakia
- Spoken in: the Republic of the Gambia and the Republic of Senegal
- Spoken in: the Myanmar states of the Kachin State and the Shan State and by the Shan people
- Spoken in: the Chinese municipality of Shanghai
- Official Language in: the Indian state of Sikkim
- Official Language in: Zimbabwe
- Spoken in: the Italian region of Apulia, Calabria, Campania ; the Italian comune of Leece ; Malta ; and the Italian autonomous region of Sicily
- Official Language in: the Indian state of Sikkim
- Official Language in: India and the Pakistani province of Sindh
- Official Language in: Sri Lanka
- Official Language in: Slovakia, and the Serbian autonomous province of Vojvodina
- Recognised Minority Language in: the Czech Republic, Hungary and Ukraine
- Spoken In: Czech Republic
- Official Language in: Slovenia
- Recognised Minority Language in: Austria, Hungary, and Italy
- Official Language in: Somalia
- Recognised Minority Language in: Djibouti and Ethiopia
- Spoken in: Iran and Iraq
- Official Language in: Lesotho and South Africa
- Spoken in: Bolivia, Peru, Chile and Argentina
- Official Language in: 21 countries, 6 dependant entities, and 23 international organisations
- Spoken in: the Netherlands
- Official Language in: the Indonesian province of West Java
- Was spoken in: Southern Iraq and Southeastern Iran
Spoken in: Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea
Swahili – Kiswahili
- Official Language in: Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda
- Official Language in: Finland and Sweden
- Spoken in: the Austrian state of Vorarlberg, the Italian regions of the Aosta Valley and Piedmont, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland
- Spoken in: the Bangladeshi division of Greater Sylhet ; the Indian state of Assam's Barak Valley ; and the Indian state of Tripura
- Official Language in: the Philippines
- Spoken in: the French Polynesian area of the Society Islands
- Spoken in: the Chinese county of the Jinping Miao, Yao, and Dai Autonomous County
- Spoken in: Shan State, Republic of the Union of Myanmar and the Kingdom of Thailand
- Spoken in: Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China
- Official Language in: the Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, People's Republic of China
- Official Language in: Sikkim, Republic of India and the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
- Official Language in: the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, union territories of Pondicherry and Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Sri Lanka, Republic of Singapore
- Recognised Minority Language in: Malaysia
- Formerly the Official Language in: the Tangut Empire
- Official Language in: the Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation
Tepes – Soo
- Spoken in: the Republic of Uganda
- Spoken in: the Costa Rican provinces of Limón and Puntarenas, and the Panamanian provinces of Bocas del Toro and Chiriquí
- Official Language in: the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
- Recognised Minority Language in: East Nusa Tenggara, Republic of Indonesia
- Official Language in: the Kingdom of Thailand
- Official Language in: the Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China and Upper Mustang, Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
- Official Language in: the State of Eritrea and the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
- Spoken in: Tobago part of Trinidad and Tobago
- Official Language in: the Independent State of Papua New Guinea
- Official Language in: the Kingdom of Tonga
- Formerly Spoken in: the City of Los Angeles, United States
- Spoken in: Trinidad in Trinidad and Tobago
- Spoken in: the Republic of Dagestan, Russian Federation
- Official Language in: the Republic of Botswana, the Republic of South Africa, and the Republic of Zimbabwe
- Recognised Minority Language in: the Republic of Mali and the Republic of Niger
- Spoken in: the Louisiana, United States of America
- Spoken in: Tunisia
- Official Language in: Turkey, Northern Cyprus And Cyprus
- Spoken in: the Bosnia And Herzegovina. Greece. Iraq. Kosovo. North Macedonia. Romania. Bulgaria. Syria. Netherlands. Belgium. Germany
- Official Language in: Turkmenistan
- Recognised Minority Language in: Afghanistan
- Spoken in: the Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala, and Maharashtra
- Spoken in: Cambodia
- Spoken in: California
Formerly Spoken in: Turkey
Uduk – Tw'ampa or T'wampa
- Spoken in: the Federal Democratic Republic of South Sudan and the Republic of the Sudan
- Official Language in: the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic and Ukraine
- Recognised Minority Language in: Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, the Republic of Moldova, the Republic of Poland, Romania, the Republic of Serbia, and the Slovak Republic
- Spoken In: The State Of Saxony, Germany
- Official Language in: the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the Indian states of Bihar, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, and Telangana
- Spoken in: Guatemala
- Official Language in: the Chinese autonomous region of Xinjiang and Recognised Minority Language of Kazakhstan
- Official Language in: the Republic of Uzbekistan
- Spoken in: Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Puducherry, Karnataka, and Maharashtra and all in India
- Spoken in: Liberia and Sierra Leone
- Official Language in: the Spanish autonomous community of Valencia
- Spoken In: Uva Province of Sri Lanka
- Official Language in: the Republic of South Africa and the Republic of Zimbabwe
- Official Language in: the Italian region of Veneto
- Official Language in: the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
- Recognised Minority Language in: the Czech Republic
- Spoken in: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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- International language invented by Johann Martin Schleyer
- Spoken In: Ingria in Russia
- Spoken in: Southern Estonia
- Spoken in: the Belgian region of Wallonia
- Spoken in: the Australian Northern Territory
- Official Language in: the British country of Wales
- Recognised Minority Language in: the Argentine Republic and the United Kingdom
- Spoken In: Kamchatka Krai in Russia
- Official Language in: the Dutch province of Friesland
- Spoken in: California
- Spoken in: the Republic of the Gambia, the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, and the Republic of Senegal
- Spoken in: the southern region of the Chinese province of Jiangsu, the entire province of Zhejiang, and the municipality of Shanghai
- Spoken in: the French special collectivity of New Caledonia
- Official Language in: the Republic of South Africa and the Republic of Zimbabwe
- Spoken in: the northern region of the Chinese province of Guangxi and the central and southwestern regions of the province of Hunan
- Spoken in: the Chinese autonomous region of Xinjiang
Formerly spoken in: Brazil
Xiriâna † - ?
- Formerly spoken in: Brazil
- Spoken in: the Micronesian island of Yap
Yanesha' - Yanešač̣
- Spoken in: the Peruvian department of
- Official Language in: the Russian Jewish Autonomous Oblast
- Recognised as a minority language in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the State of Israel, the Netherlands, the Republic of Poland, Romania, the Kingdom of Sweden, and Ukraine
- Official Language in: the Federal Republic of Nigeria
- Spoken in: Oklahoma
- Spoken in the Chinese province of Guangdong and the autonomous region of Guangxi
- Spoken In: Sudan and Chad
- Spoken In: Tunceli, Bingöl and parts of Elazığ, Erzincan and Diyarbakır
- Official Language in: the Republic of South Africa
- Spoken In: New Mexico and Arizona in the United States
- Spoken in the Chinese autonomous region of Guangxi
- Spoken In: Chin State and India
Alphabets and scripts
'Phags-pa † -- Formerly Used in: the People's Republic of China, the Republic of India, Mongolia, and Greater Tibet
- Used in: the Republic of Abkhazia and the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia
- Formerly Used in: Anglo-Saxon England
- Used in: Armenia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Artsakh, the Republic of Poland, Romania, and the United States
- Spoken on: the Eastern Iranian Plateau
- Used in: the People's Republic of China
- Used in: the Federal Republic of Somalia
- Braille is a tactile writing system, versions of which are used for many different languages and also used for the blind.
- Formerly used in: Western Anatolia
- The Deseret alphabet is a Mormon liturgical script
- Formerly Used by: the Middle Age-Slavic People
- Used in: Mindoro, Philippines
- Used in: the Kayah, Republic of the Union of Myanmar
- Used in: Central Luzon, Philippines
- Used in: Western Africa
- Used in: Guinea and Ivory Coast
- Used in: the Federal Republic of Somalia
- Formerly Used by: 2nd Century Germanics
- Invented by Ronald Kingsley Read as an alternative phoenetic alphabet to the English language.
- Used in: Central Asia, Japan
- Used in: Palawan, Philippines
- Used in: Southeast Asia
Dialects
ǂAkhoe – ǂAkhoe Haiǁom- Spoken in: Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa
- Spoken in: Albania
- Spoken in: Albania
- Spoken in: the southern area of the Chinese province of Fujian
- Spoken in: Armenia
- Spoken by: the Armenian Diaspora
- Spoken in: East Asia
- Spoken in: Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan
- Spoken in: Angola and Namibia
- Spoken in: the southern area of the Chinese province of Fujian, Taiwan, and in Southeast Asia
- Recognised Minority Language in: Kingdom of Sweden
- Spoken in: Monaco
- Spoken In: New Zealand
- Spoken in: the Chinese sub-provincial division of Ningbo
- Spoken in: the Pakistani state of Azad Kashmir
- Spoken in: the southern area of the Chinese province of Fujian
- Spoken in: the Pakistani province of Bahawalpur South Punjab
- Formerly Spoken in: Lesotho and South Africa
Teochew - 潮州話
- Spoken by: the Chinese Teochew people