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This list of languages is alphabetical by English name. More structured lists are also available:
Ethnologue lists about 6,800 main languages in its language name index (see the external link) and distinguishes about 41,000 alternate language names and dialects.
This list deals with particular languages, and includes only natural and constructed languages spoken by humans. For other kinds of information about language see:
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- Abkhazian
- Abujmaria
- Afrikaans
- Aimaq , or Barbari
- Ainu
- Akkadian ( Semitic) (extinct)
- AlbanianAlbanian or Shqip is a language spoken by some six million inhabitants of the western Balkan peninsula in the south-eastern Europe ( Albanians) and by a small number of people in Calabria, southern Italy. Some eminent scholars in the field of Albanian lan
- AleutAleut is a language of the Eskimo-Aleut language phylum. It is the tongue of the Aleut people living in the Aleutian, Pribilof and Commander Islands. Aleut is alone with Eskimo in the Eskimo-Aleut group. The two main dialect groupings are Eastern Aleut an
- AlgonquinAlgonquin is an Algonquian language closely related to Ojibwe. It is spoken, alongside French and to some extent English, by the Algonquin First Nation of Quebec and Ontario. Native American languages.
- Alemán ColoneiroAleman Coloneiro or Colonia Tovar is an Alemannic language derived from southern dialects of German. The language, which is not intelligible with Standard German, is spoken by the descendants of German settlers in Venezuela. Most speakers also know Spanis ( GermanicThe Germanic languages form one of the branches of the Indo-European (IE) language family, spoken by the Germanic peoples who settled in northern Europe along the borders of the Roman Empire. They are characterised by a number of unique linguistic feature)
- AlsatianAlsatian ( French Alsacien German Elsassisch is a German Alemannic dialect spoken in Alsace, a region now in eastern France, and historically passing between French and German control many times. Alsatian has therefore been heavily influenced by the Frenc ( GermanicThe Germanic languages form one of the branches of the Indo-European (IE) language family, spoken by the Germanic peoples who settled in northern Europe along the borders of the Roman Empire. They are characterised by a number of unique linguistic feature)
- Altai
- Alutor
- Amharic
- Anglo-Saxon
- Amdang
- Angaur
- Anlo
- Apachean languages
- A-Pucikwar
- Arabic ( Semitic)
- Aragonese
- Aramaic ( Semitic)
- Arawak
- Armenian
- Ashkun
- Assamese
- Assyrian
- Athabascan
- Asturian
- Avestan
- Awadhi
- Aymara
- Azerbaijani
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