LIST OF LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN THE WORLD:
LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN THE WORLD

KHANS BLOG
2 min readDec 19, 2023

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LIST OF LANGUAGES THAT ARE SPOKEN IN THE WORLD

INTRODUCTION

There are huge number of dialects spoken on the planet. While I can’t give a thorough rundown, everything being equal, I can provide you with an outline of a portion of the significant language families and notable dialects. If it’s not too much trouble, note that a few dialects could have various lingos and territorial varieties. These are only a couple of models, and there are a lot more dialects spoken universally, including various imperiled and native dialects. The Ethnologue, an exhaustive language index, gives a greater and exceptional rundown of dialects spoken around the world. Remember that language variety is huge and ceaselessly developing, for certain dialects confronting the gamble of eradication while others gain conspicuousness.

Indo-European languages : English

  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Russian
  • Hindi
  • Bengali
  • Portuguese
  • Italian
  • Dutch
  • Punjabi
  • Urdu

Sino-Tibetan languages : Mandarin Chinese

  • Cantonese
  • Tibetan
  • Burmese

Afroasiatic languages : Arabic

  • Amharic
  • Hebrew
  • Hausa

Niger-Congo languages : Swahili

  • Yoruba
  • Zulu
  • Igbo

Austronesian languages : Indonesian

  • Malay
  • Tagalog
  • Javanese
  • Hawaiian

Dravidian languages : Tamil

  • Telugu
  • Kannada
  • Malayalam

Austroasiatic languages : Vietnamese

  • Khmer (Cambodian)

Turkic languages : Turkish

  • Azerbaijani
  • Kazakh

Uralic languages : Finnish

  • Hungarian
  • Estonian

Altaic languages (controversial classification) : Mongolian

  • Korean
  • Turkish (some classifications place Turkish in the Turkic family instead)

Tai-Kadai languages : Thai

  • Lao

Austroasiatic languages : Vietnamese

  • Khmer (Cambodian)

Papuan languages : Hiri Motu

  • Tok Pisin

Indigenous languages of the Americas : Navajo

  • Quechua
  • Nahuatl
  • Guarani
  • Cherokee

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