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This page lists published lists of languages. Published lists[edit] According to SIL International's Ethnologue: Languages of the World (12th Edition, 1992, ISBN 1-55671-216-2), there are over 6,900 spoken languages.The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns codes for most languages; see ISO 639Linguasphere Observatory (LS-2010, totalling over 32,800 coded entries & over 70,900 linguistic names)IETF language tag Wikipedia list articles[edit] Index of language articles Comprehensive lists[edit] Lists which are global in scope (all living natural languages would classify for inclusion): By region[edit] By special type or property[edit] Extinct, endangered or revived languages By status or cultural sphere of influence Special types of languages See also[edit] List of languages by number of native speakers - Wikipedia, the. Current distribution of human language families The following tables list languages of the world with the largest number of native speakers, as estimated in various ways at different times by various sources.

Since the definition of a single language is to some extent arbitrary, some mutually intelligible idioms with separate national standards or self-identification have been listed together, including Indonesian and Malay; Croatian, Bosnian, and Serbian; etc. Half of the world's population speak the 13 most spoken languages, the other half speak the rest. For a list of languages with the smallest numbers of native speakers, please see Lists of endangered languages. Nationalencyklopedin (2007) The following table contains the top 100 languages by estimated number of speakers in the 2007 edition of Nationalencyklopedin. Note: Languages with an asterisk (*) have been updated with figures from the 2010 edition of the Nationalencyklopedin. Ethnologue (2013, 17th edition) See also References. List of ISO 639-3 codes. These are lists of ISO 639-3 language codes.

Index | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z See also[edit] List of ISO 639-3 language codes reserved for local use References[edit] External links[edit]