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Comprehensive lists. Lists which are global in scope (all living natural languages would classify for inclusion): 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.
2 List of languages by the number of countries in which they are the most widely used. 3 Official regional and minority languages. 4 See also. 5 Notes. 6 References.
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
New Zealand Sign Language – Sign Language Official language in: New Zealand; Ngbee † – Lingbee Formerly spoken in: the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Nihali – ? Spoken in: Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra in India; Northern Thai – ᨣᩴᩤᨾᩮᩥᩬᨦ Spoken in: the northern area of Thailand, and some other parts of Southeast Asia
This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect . For example, Chinese and Arabic are sometimes considered single languages, but each includes several mutually unintelligible varieties , and so they are sometimes considered language families instead.
This is a list of lists of countries and territories by official language.. List of countries and territories where Afrikaans or Dutch are official languages; List of countries and territories where Arabic is an official language
ISO 639 is a standardized nomenclature used to classify languages. Each language is assigned a two-letter (set 1) and three-letter lowercase abbreviation (sets 2–5). Part 1 of the standard, ISO 639-1 defines the two-letter codes, and Part 3 (2007), ISO 639-3, defines the three-letter codes, aiming to cover all known natural languages, largely superseding the ISO 639-2 three-letter code standard.
This is the list of countries sorted by the number of official languages. Only countries with three or more official languages, either nationally or locally, are included. Country. Official. Including minority. Ref. Bolivia. 37. 37.