Lists of languages

Lists of languages
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, totalling 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 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
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
By special type or property
Extinct, endangered or revived languages
Lists of extinct languages
List of languages by time of extinction
Lists of endangered languages
List of revived languages
Regional language
By 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
Languages used on the Internet (includes a list of languages with the most prevalence online)
List of mutually intelligible languages
Special 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
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