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The level indicated corresponds most closely to my reading ability not to my spoken ability. Although Wikipedia makes the default level that of one's mastery of the spoken language that, to me, seems misguided for a project like Wikipedia. Reading and writing are far more important here than speaking. For example, my reading Spanish is at Level 4 (near-native speaker) although my speaking is probably a high 3. For French, I read at a high 3 (or low 4) but my speaking level is a 2 and my listening a high 2 (or low 3). No one, except me of course, is interested in so much information, so I've chosen to rate myself on, primarily, reading and writing, the two skill levels I think are most relevant for Wikipedia.

The languages in Level 1 are all for which, currently, I have a reading ability comparable to that of someone who's finished a first-year college course. This does not mean that I am at a low level as low as that of just knowing a few words nor, on the other hand, does it mean that I'm at a high level as high as that of being able to understand books written for native speakers in primary education. Some of these Level 1 languages (Korean, Tamil, and Turkish) used to be Level 4 for reading and Level 3 for speaking but, through disuse, have slipped further and further down.

I don't bother to list languages for which I know fewer than, say, 1,000 words nor for which I haven't completed the equivalent of a first-year college course for reading.

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Africa and African Diaspora
 * Malick Sidibé / Mazuku / Rachid Boudjedra / Sally Falk Moore / Kiri Davis / A Girl Like Me / Urban Academy (disambiguation) / Zeinat Olwi‎

Architecture and Urban Planning
 * The Beresford / Aquitania (apartment) / Tokyo Hotel (Chicago) / Alex Anmahian / Handlin, Garrahan, Zachos & Associates / Impossible Cities: A Utopian Experiment / Clarion, Utah / Ether Monument

Arts
 * John Kearney / Roger Brown (artist) / Caroline Rose Isenberg / Kiri Davis / A Girl Like Me / Urban Academy (disambiguation) / Arthur Mole / The Theater Offensive / Surviving the Nian / Jeffrey Pelehac / Virginio Ferrari (artist) / Katherine Lane Weems / Neon Boneyard actually just a redirect / Zeinat Olwi‎ / Joseph Somers / Ether Monument / Positive Noise / Eilif Peterssen

Boston
 * The Theater Offensive / Surviving the Nian / Katherine Lane Weems / Lou Miami / Ether Monument

California
 * Kogi Korean BBQ

Chicago
 * Gayatri Reddy / Faisal Devji / Aquitania (apartment) / Tokyo Hotel (Chicago) / John Kearney / Roger Brown (artist) / Impossible Cities: A Utopian Experiment / Colin Masica / Norman Zide / Crossroads Fund / Ronald Inden / Chicago Palestine Film Festival / Brood XIII / Arthur Mole / Virginio Ferrari (artist) / Righteously Outrageous Twirling Corps / Kali Charan Bahl

East Asia
 * Horaisan / Uchimizu / Mochitsura Hashimoto

Europe-Medieval
 * Santa Gadea / Barlaam and Josaphat / Sidrak and Bokkus / T. L. Burton / Robert Sonkowsky / Charles H. Beeson

Europe-Modern
 * Ferdinando Camon / Avvenire / Annemarie Selinko / John Knittel / Justus Van Maurik / Aspirated h / Eilif Peterssen
 * Basque Literature
 * Telesforo Monzón / Salbatore Mitxelena / Nikolas Ormaetxea / Txillardegi / Positive Noise

Harvard University
 * David Maybury-Lewis / Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah / Nur Yalman / Alex Anmahian / R.J. Cutler / Caroline Rose Isenberg / Caroline Kaufer / Katherine Lane Weems

Iowa
 * Pekin, Iowa

Islam see also Southwest Asia and Northwest Africa
 * In the Hearts of Green Birds / In the Belly of the Green Bird / Nir Rosen

Latin America
 * Juan Villoro / Miguel Barnet / Nitza Villapol / Zafra (agriculture) / Comandante Luis Piedrabuena / Maria Sonia Cristoff / Frank Padrón / Johnny Payne (writer)

Literature
 * Annemarie Selinko / Dasabodhisattuppattikatha / John Knittel / Johnny Payne (writer) / Merari Siregar / Justus Van Maurik

Miscellaneous
 * Dickipedia

Music
 * Gerhana Skacinta / Surviving the Nian / Jeffrey Pelehac / Zeinat Olwi‎ / Positive Noise

Native America
 * Pox (drink) / David Maybury-Lewis / Johnny Payne (writer)

Queer
 * Gayatri Reddy / Nancy Kates / Christopher Cooper / Saleem Kidwai / Ed Salvato / Ruth Vanita / Masala (Boston) / Miguel Barnet / The Theater Offensive / Surviving the Nian / Righteously Outrageous Twirling Corps / Queens (novel)

South Asia
 * Gayatri Reddy / Faisal Devji / Saleem Kidwai / Manushi / Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah / Nur Yalman / Barlaam and Josaphat (book) / Sunil Gupta / Ronald Inden / Jejuri (poem) / Masala (Boston) / Dadi Pudumjee / Barlaam and Josaphat / Colin Masica / Norman Zide / Prajwala / Dasabodhisattuppattikatha / Kali Charan Bahl

Southeast Asia
 * Gerhana Skacinta / Merari Siregar / Nung language (Tai-Kadai family)

Southwest Asia and North Africa
 * Zeinat Olwi‎

USA Academics and Writers
 * Gayatri Reddy / Lynn Nottage / Faisal Devji / George Hubbard Blakeslee / Johnny Payne (writer) / Kali Charan Bahl