human language
set of all languages currently or formerly spoken, written, or signed by humans (excluding computer languages and mathematical/logically-formal languages)
English
West Germanic language
Elamite
ancient language in Mesopotamia
Austric
disputed large hypothetical grouping of languages primarily spoken in Southeast Asia and Pacific; includes the Austronesian and Austroasiatic language families
Classification of Pygmy languages
overview of the classification of Pygmy languages
Eastern Trans-Fly
Language family of New Guinea
Malay
Austronesian macrolanguage, basis for Malaysian Malay and Indonesian
natural language
language naturally spoken by humans, as opposed to "constructed" and "formal" languages
Papuan
non-Austronesian languages of New Guinea and adjacent islands
Indo-Pakistani Sign Language
sign language used throughout the Indian subcontinent
Turkic
language family of Eurasia
Uralic
language family prevalent in northern Eurasia
dead language
language that is no longer the native language of any community, even if it is still in use
Sino-Austronesian
proposed language family suggested by Laurent Sagart in 1990 combining Sino-Tibetan and Austronesian languages
Spanish
Romance language originating in the Iberian Peninsula
Indonesian
official language of Indonesia
Ibero-Caucasian
language family
Burushaski
isolate language spoken by Burushos in northern Pakistan and India
Araucanian
language family of South America
Iberian
the language of an indigenous pre-Migration Period people identified by Greco-Roman sources, living in the eastern/southeastern Iberian Peninsula between the 7th and 1st century BCE; became extinct by 2nd century CE
Central Solomon
Papuan language family
Sino-Tibetan-Indo-European
hypothesized language macrofamily proposing a genetic relationship between the SIno-Tibetan and the Indo-European language families
Andamanese
language family of Andaman
Dravidian
language family mostly of southern India
Javanese
Austronesian language
Khoisan
group of African language families with click consonants
Tungusic
language family
modern language
language in current use
historical language
language used in a historical period, but distinct from related modern forms
Kenyan Sign Language
Deaf sign language of Kenya and Somalia
Sundic languages
language family spoken in Sunda Islands
Quechua
language family spoken primarily in the Andes region of South America
Nahuatl
language of the Nahuan branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family
Indo-European
language family native to western and southern Eurasia— Europe, Iran and India
Mongolic
language family of Eurasia
indigenous language
language that is native to a region and spoken by indigenous peoples
pivot language
artificial or natural language used as an intermediary language for translation
Zuni
language of the Zuni people
Arabic
Semitic language and lingua franca of the Arab world
Paleo-Siberian languages
group of languages in Siberia
Nostratic
proposed superfamily of Eurasian and African languages
Austro-Tai
hypothetical family of languages
undeciphered language
language or writing script that is not understood
Sumerian
language of ancient Sumer
Jewish languages
languages and dialects that developed in Jewish communities
varieties of Arabic
family of language varieties