Lists of languages

This page is a list of lists of languages.

Published lists

 * 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, 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 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