List of Real World languages

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There are approximately 8,511 languages in the Real World, including around 700 constructed languages, still being spoken in 2023. Here they are, categorized by family.

This page includes notable examples of the languages, such as literature, music, drama, film, and television.

Abkhaz-Adyghe

Name	Indigenous ethnic group	Writing system
Abkhaz	Abkhazians	Cyrillic alphabet

Afro-Asiatic

Name	Indigenous ethnic group	Writing system
Central Atlas Tamazight	Amazigh communities in Morocco	Tifnagh, Arabic script
Egyptian Arabic	Egyptians	Arabic script
Hausa	Hausa people	Latin alphabet, Arabic script
Hebrew	Jewish people, Samaritans	Hebrew alphabet
Levantine Arabic	Levantines, including Palestinians and Lebanese people	Arabic script
Maltese	Maltese people	Latin alphabet

Algic

Name	Indigenous ethnic group	Writing system
Anishinaabemowin	Anishinaabeg	Latin alphabet, syllabics
Huluníixsuwaakan (Munsee)	Lenape	Latin alphabet
Lnuismk	Miꞌkmaq	Latin alphabet
Myaamiaataweenki	Myaamiaki	Latin alphabet

Amto-Musan

All Amto-Musan languages have been listed below. This makes it the second language family to be completely listed in this page.

Name	Indigenous ethnic group	Writing system
Amto	Three villages in Green River Rural LLG, Sandaun Province	TBA
Siawi	The village of Siawi, Green River Rural LLG, Sandaun Province	TBA

Andamanese

Name	Indigenous ethnic group	Writing system
Aka-Jeru	Andaman Island communities	TBA

Arafundi

Name	Indigenous ethnic group	Writing system
Nanubae	Communities in Papua New Guinea	TBA

Arai (Left May)

Name	Indigenous ethnic group	Writing system
Iteri	Sandaun Province, Rocky Peak Mountains	TBA

Arauan

Name	Indigenous ethnic group	Writing system
Kulina	Kulina people	TBA

Australian

Name	Indigenous ethnic group	Writing system
Pitjantjatjara	Pitjantjatjara people	Latin alphabet

Austro-Asiatic

Name	Indigenous ethnic group	Writing system
Khmer	Khmer people	Khmer script
Mon	Mon people	Mon-Burmese script
Santali	Santal people	Ol Chiki script
Vietnamese	Vietnamese people	Latin alphabet
Wa	Wa people	Latin alphabet

Austronesian

Name	Indigenous ethnic group	Writing system
Acehnese	Acehnese people	Latin alphabet, Jawi script
Atayal	Atayal people	Latin alphabet
Balinese	Balinese people	Latin alphabet, Balinese script
Cebuano	Visayans	Latin alphabet
Chamorro	Chamorro people	Latin alphabet
Chuukese	Chuukese people	Latin alphabet
Drehu	Communities in Lifou Island	Latin alphabet
Fijian	iTaukei	Latin alphabet
Filipino	Filipinos	Latin alphabet
Gilbertese	I-Kiribati	Latin alphabet
Hiligaynon	Hiligaynon people	Latin alphabet
Hiri Motu	Various communities in and around Port Moresby	Latin alphabet
Ilocano	Ilocano people	Latin alphabet
Indonesian	Indonesians	Latin alphabet
Javanese	Javanese people	Latin alphabet, Javanese script
Kwara'ae	Communities in northern Malaita	Latin alphabet
Malay	Malays	Latin alphabet
te reo Māori	Māori	Latin alphabet
Marshallese	Marshallese people	Latin alphabet
Merina Malagasy	Merina people	Latin alphabet
Minangkabau	Minangkabau people	Latin alphabet, Minangkabau script
Nakanamanga	Communities in northern Efate	Latin alphabet
Nauruan	Nauruans	Latin alphabet
Nengone	Communities in Maré Island	Latin alphabet
Netvaar (Lenakel)	Communities in western Tanna	Latin alphabet
ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi	Kānaka Maoli	Latin alphabet
Paiwan	Paiwan people	Latin alphabet
Palauan	Palauans	Latin alphabet
Pangcah	Pangcah	Latin alphabet
Rapa Nui	Rapa Nui people	Latin alphabet
Samoan	Samoans	Latin alphabet
Sundanese	Sundanese people	Latin alphabet, Sundanese script
Tagalog	Tagalog people	Latin alphabet
Tahitian	Māʼohi	Latin alphabet
Tetun	Tetun people	Latin alphabet
Tokelauan	Tokelauans	Latin alphabet
Tongan	Tongans	Latin alphabet
Tuvaluan	Tuvaluans	Latin alphabet
Yapese	Yapese people	Latin alphabet

Constructed

Main article: Constructed language

Name	Creator(s)	Date	Writing system	Notable works
Esperanto	L. L. Zamenhof	1887	Latin alphabet	Poem Ho, mia kor' Song Ĉarma Anomali Dek bovinoj Himno de Babel' La Espero Tra la Pordo
Ido	Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language	1907	Latin alphabet
Interlingua	International Auxiliary Language Association	1951	Latin alphabet, Cyrillic alphabet
Interslavic	Ondrej Rečnik, Gabriel Svoboda, Jan van Steenbergen, Igor Polyakov, Vojtěch Merunka, Steeven Radzikowski	2006	Latin alphabet, Cyrillic alphabet
Iqglic	Jack Eisenmann	2012	Latin alphabet
Ithkuil	John Quijada	1978-2023	Morphophonemic
Lojban	Logical Language Group	1987	Latin alphabet or Zbalermorna
Lolcat	Someone on 4chan	2006 (current form)	Latin alphabet
Naʼvi	Paul Frommer	2005	Latin alphabet (outside of the Avatar universe)
Pangesese	Jurta	2024	Pangesese script	TUMB
Pig Latin	Arthur Fields	1919	Latin alphabet
Puflantu	N/A	2019	Latin alphabet
toki pona	jan Sonja	2001	Various, including the Latin alphabet and sitelen pona	Play tu kuntu (2021) Song pan nanpa wan ryuupekosi
Zhinekan	Jurta	2024	Latin alphabet

Creole

Name	Homeland	Influence	Writing system
Hawaiian Pidgin	Hawaii	English, Hawaiian, Portuguese, Yue, Japanese, Ilocano, Okinawan, Korean	Latin alphabet
Jamaican Patois	Jamaica	English, Akan languages, other West African languages	Latin alphabet

Dravidian

Name	Indigenous ethnic group	Writing system
Kannada	Kannadigaru	Kannada script
Tamil	Tamil people	Tamil script
Telugu	Telugu people	Telugu script

Eyak-Athabaskan

Name	Indigenous ethnic group	Homeland	Writing system
Diné bizaad	Diné (Navajo)	Dinétah	Latin alphabet

Indo-European

Name	Indigenous ethnic group	Writing system	Notable works
Afrikaans	Various	Latin alphabet
Albanian	Albanians	Latin alphabet	Song Habibi (Albanian Remix) - DJ Gimi-O x Ricky Rich x Dardan
Armenian	Armenians	Armenian alphabet
Asturian	Asturians	Latin alphabet
Bangla	Benaglis	Bengali alphabet
Bavarian	Bavarians	Latin alphabet
Belarusian	Belarusians	Cyrillic alphabet
Bosnian	Bosniaks	Latin alphabet, Cyrillic alphabet
Breton	Bretons	Latin alphabet
Bulgarian	Bulgarians	Cyrillic alphabet
Catalan	Catalans	Latin alphabet
Cornish	Cornish people	Latin alphabet
Croatian	Croats	Latin alphabet
Czech	Czechs	Latin alphabet
Dari	Persian communities in Afghanistan	Persian alphabet
Danish	Danes	Latin alphabet
Dhivehi	Dhivehin	Thaana
Dutch	Dutch people	Latin alphabet	Song Europapa
East Franconian	Franconians	Latin alphabet
English	English people	Latin alphabet	Album The Dark Side of the Moon Bible King James Version (1611) Book Battle for Dream Island: Official Character Guide (2019) Moby Dick (1851) Monster Book of Seal Drawing: 150 Step-by-Step Projects for Beginners (2013) O Is For Okin (2023) Stones in Fruit Art Book (2009) The Wiki Camp: Official Character Guide (2013) Essay On the Nature of Meaningless Work (2024) The Wiki Camp 2 is not Uncyclopedia (2024) Film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Barbie (2023) The Godfather (1972) Gone with the Wind (1939) Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) No Country for Old Men (2007) Oppenheimer (2023) Pooh's Adventures of The Wiki Camp 2 (2022) The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) Titanic (1997) Up (2009) The Wiki Camp 2 Movie (2027) Game show Jeopardy! The Wiki Camp BETTER JEOPARDY!!!!!!!!!!! The Wiki Camp Jeopardy! Musical Chicago Hamilton: An American Musical The Phantom of the Opera West Side Story Wicked Play Hamlet (1599-1601) The Tempest (1610-1611) Podcast The Layover Song Advance Australia Fair All The Single Furries Around The World - Daft Punk Atlas Earth The Box Drunken Sailor Fairytale Of New York - The Pogues The Fields of Athenry Fly Me To The Moon Get Lucky ft. Pharrell Williams, Nile Rodgers - Daft Punk God Save the King Happy - Pharrell Williams Hello - Adele Hey Two! Hotline Bling - Drake Lazy Harp Seal Let Her Go - Passenger Memories - Maroon 5 Message to Loser Nerpy Blues - Drake Nerpy Doodle Dandy Rule, Britannia! Scarborough Fair See You Again ft. Charlie Puth - Wiz Khalifa Somebody That I Used To Know ft. Kimbra - Gotye The Sound Of Silence The Star-Spangled Banner Starboy ft. Daft Punk - The Weeknd Titanium ft. Sia - David Guetta What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong Wellerman Wiki Blues - "Weird Al" Yankovic Wordle Yakko's World Yankee Doodle You'll Never Walk Alone TV show A Perspective on Trains Bill Green's Farming Show Blacklisted international reality television franchise Chuggington Coronation Street The Daily Object Show The Dinosaur Object Show Family Guy Friends Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends Futurama Grey's Anatomy Mint & Peep: Detective Agency The Monthly Object Show The Muppet Show nanalan' Seinfeld Sheep in the Big City The Simpsons Slippin' Jimmy Taskmaster Thomas & Friends Toopy and Binoo The Yearly Object Show Yo Gabba Gabba! Z Cars Web series Battle for Dream Island Inanimate Insanity Webcomic Homestuck
Faroese	Faroese people	Latin alphabet
Farsi	Persians	Persian alphabet
French	French people	Latin alphabet	Song Frère Jacques La Marseillaise La Vie en rose - Édith Piaf TV show C'est pas sorcier Téléfrançais!
Frisian	West Frisians	Latin alphabet
Friulian	Friulians	Latin alphabet
Galician	Galicians	Latin alphabet
German	Germans	Latin alphabet	Song Barbaras Rhabarberbar
Greek	Greeks	Greek alphabet
Hindi	Indians of the Hindi Belt	Devanagari
Icelandic	Icelanders	Latin alphabet	Song Enginn latur í Latabæ Íþróttaálfurinn Lofsöngur
Irish	Irish people	Latin alphabet	Song Amhrán na bhFiann
Italian	Italians	Latin alphabet	Poem Divine Comedy Song Bella Ciao Il Canto degli Italiani
Kashubian	Kashubians	Latin alphabet
Kurmanji	Kurdish people	Latin alphabet, Arabic script
Latin	Latins, Romans	Latin alphabet	Song Salve Regina
Latvian	Latvians	Latin alphabet
Limburgish	Limburgers	Latin alphabet
Listenbourgish	Listenbourgers	Latin alphabet
Lithuanian	Lithuanians	Latin alphabet
Lombard	Communities in mostly Lombardy	Latin alphabet
Low German	Dutch and German communities	Latin alphabet
Lower Sorbian	Sorbs	Cyrillic alphabet
Luxembourgish	Luxembourgers	Latin alphabet
Macedonian	Macedonians	Cyrillic alphabet
Manx	Manx people	Latin alphabet
Marathi	Marathi people	Devanagari
Montenegrin	Montenegrins	Latin alphabet, Cyrillic alphabet
Neapolitan	Neapolitans	Latin alphabet	Song Funiculì, Funiculà
Nepali	Khas people	Devanagari
Norn	Communities of the Northern Isles	Latin alphabet
Northern Frisian	Northern Frisians	Latin alphabet
Norwegian	Norwegians	Latin alphabet	Song Ja, vi elsker dette landet
Pashto	Pashtuns	Pashto alphabet
Polabian	Communities around the Elbe	Latin alphabet
Polish	Polish people	Latin alphabet	Song Mazurek Dąbrowskiego Papaya - E. Dudziak
Portuguese	Portuguese people	Latin alphabet	Song Mas Que Nada - Sérgio Mendes
Punjabi	Punjabis	Shahmukhi, Gurmukhi	Song Tunak Tunak Tun - Daler Mehndi
Ripuarian	Communities in southern Rhineland	Latin alphabet
Romanian	Romanians	Latin alphabet	Song Deșteaptă-te, române! Dragostea Din Tei - O-Zone
Russian	Russians	Cyrillic alphabet	Web series C.F.M.O.T. Dendy Chronicles
Rusyn	Rusyns	Cyrillic alphabet
Sanskrit	Indians	Devanagari	Mantras Om Namo Bhagavate Vāsudevāya
Saterfriesisch	Saterland Frisians	Latin alphabet
Scots	Scottish people	Latin alphabet	Newsletter Scots Tung Wittins Song Auld Lang Syne
Scottish Gaelic	Scottish Gaels	Latin alphabet
Serbian	Serbs	Cyrillic alphabet
Silesian	Silesians	Latin alphabet
Sinhala	Sinhalese people	Sinhala script
Slovak	Slovaks	Latin alphabet
Slovene	Slovenes	Latin alphabet
Spanish	Spanish people	Latin alphabet	Song La Bamba
Sudric	Sudric people	Latin alphabet
Swabian	Swabians	Latin alphabet
Swedish	Swedes	Latin alphabet
Swiss German	Swiss Germans	Latin alphabet
Tajik	Tajiks	Cyrillic alphabet, Latin alphabet
Ukrainian	Ukrainians	Cyrillic alphabet
Upper Sorbian	Sorbs	Cyrillic alphabet
Urdu	Various peoples, mainly in India and Pakistan	Devanagari
Welsh	Welsh people	Latin alphabet	Song Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau Yma o Hyd
West Flemish	Communities in West Flanders	Latin alphabet
Yola	Communities in County Wexford, Ireland	Latin alphabet

Iroquoian

Name	Indigenous ethnic group	Writing system
Kanienʼkéha	Kanienʼkehá꞉ka (Mohawk)	Latin alphabet

Language isolates

These languages are so distinct to the point where they can't be classified into any family.

Name	Indigenous ethnic group	Writing system
Ainu	Ainu	Katakana, Latin alphabet
Bajonkistani	Bajonkistani people	TBA
Bajookanese	Bajookanese people	TBA
Burushaski	Burusho people	Arabic script
Basque	Basque people	Latin alphabet
Ktunaxa	Ainu	Latin alphabet
Purépecha	Purépecha people	Latin alphabet
Shiwiʼma (Zuni)	A:shiwi (Zuni) people	Latin alphabet

Japonic

Name	Indigenous ethnic group	Writing system	Notable works
Japanese	Japanese people	Mixed Kanji and Kana	Anime Nichijou Song Bad Apple!! Kimigayo Sakura 千本桜 (Senbonzakura)

Kartvelian

Name	Indigenous ethnic group	Writing system	Notable works
Georgian	Georgians	Georgian script	Song Tavisupleba

Koreanic

All Koreanic languages have been listed below. This makes it the first language family to be completely listed in this page.

Name	Indigenous ethnic group	Homeland	Writing system	Notable works
Jejueo	Jeju people	Jeju Island	Hangul
Korean	Koreans	Korea	Hangul	Song Gangnam Style TV show Squid Game Web show KFC

Kra-Dai

Name	Indigenous ethnic group	Writing system
Lao	Lao people	Lao script
Northeastern Thai	Isan people	Mostly the Thai script nowadays
Thai	Thai people	Thai script

Mongolic

Name	Indigenous ethnic group	Writing system
Khalkha Mongolian	Mongols	Mongolian script, Cyrillic alphabet

Niger-Congo

Name	Indigenous ethnic group	Homeland	Writing system
Ásụ̀sụ́ Ìgbò	Ṇ́dị́ Ìgbò	Àlà Ị̀gbò	Latin alphabet, Arabic script
chiShona	VaShona	Zimbabwe	Latin alphabet
Èdè Yorùbá	Ọmọ Yorùbá	Ilẹ̀ Yorùbá	Predominantly the Latin alphabet
isiZulu	amaZulu	kwaZulu	Latin alphabet
Kiswahili	Waswahili	Swahili Coast	Latin alphabet, Arabic script
Sesotho	Basotho	Lesotho	Latin alphabet

Sino-Tibetan

Name	Indigenous ethnic group	Writing system
Burmese	Bamar people	Mon-Burmese script
Classical Chinese	Chinese people	Chinese characters
Dzongkha	Ngalop	Tibetan script
Hakka	Hakka people	Chinese characters
Lhasa Tibetan	Tibetan communities in Lhasa	Tibetan script
Mandarin	Han people	Chinese characters
Min Nan	Hoklo and Teochew people	Chinese characters
Wu	Wu people	Chinese characters
Yue	Cantonese/Yue people	Chinese characters

Tupian

Name	Indigenous ethnic group	Writing system
Paraguayan Guaraní	Guaraní communities of Paraguay	Latin alphabet

Turkic

Name	Indigenous ethnic group	Writing system	Notable works
Azerbaijani	Azerbaijani people	Latin alphabet	Song Nasimi - Sami Yusuf
Balkan Gagauz Turkish	Turkish communities in the Balkans	Latin alphabet
Bashkir	Bashkirs	Cyrillic alphabet
Chuvash	Chuvash people	Cyrillic alphabet
Crimean Tatar	Crimean Tatars	Latin alphabet
Gagauz	Gagauz people	Latin alphabet
Karachay-Balkar	Karachays, Balkars	Cyrillic alphabet
Kazakh	Kazakhs	Latin alphabet, Cyrillic alphabet
Kumyk	Kumyks	Cyrillic alphabet, Latin alphabet, Arabic script
Kyrgyz	Kyrgyz people	Cyrillic alphabet, Arabic script
Nogai	Nogais	Cyrillic alphabet, Latin alphabet
Sakha (Yakut)	Sakha people	Cyrillic alphabet
Southern Altai	Altai communities	Cyrillic alphabet
Tatar	Tatars	Cyrillic alphabet, Latin alphabet, Arabic script
Turkish	Turkish people	Latin alphabet
Turkmen	Turkmens	Latin alphabet
Tuvan	Tuvans	Cyrillic alphabet
Uyghur	Uyghurs	Arabic script, Cyrillic alphabet, Latin alphabet
Uzbek	Uzbeks	Latin alphabet, Cyrillic alphabet, Arabic script

Uralic

Name	Indigenous ethnic group	Writing system
Estonian	Estonians	Latin alphabet
Finnish	Finns	Latin alphabet
Hungarian	Hungarians	Latin alphabet

Uto-Aztecan

Name	Indigenous ethnic group	Writing system
Nahuatl	Nahua peoples	Latin alphabet

Trivia

• The majority of the world's living languages are in Asia and Africa.
• Papua New Guinea is the most linguistically diverse country in the world, with 839 living languages being spoken there.
• Europe has around 225 indigenous languages.
• The Indo-European languages (including English, French, German, Russian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Hindi, Punjabi, Bangla, Farsi, Greek, Albanian, Armenian, and Irish) have the most speakers.