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This list of languages is alphabetical by English name of the language.

Ethnologue lists about 7,300 main languages in its language name index (see the external link) and distinguishes about 39,491 alternate language names and dialects.

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A

Main article: List of languages by name: A
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  1. Abanyom (Bantu)
  2. Abaza (Northwest Caucasian)
  3. Abenaki (Algonquian)
  4. Abkhaz or Abkhazian (Northwest Caucasian)
  5. Abujmaria (Dravidian)
  6. Acehnese (Malayo-Polynesian)
  7. Adamorobe Sign Language (Signing)
  8. Adele (Kwa)
  9. Adyghe (Northwest Caucasian)
  10. Afar (Cushitic)
  11. Afrikaans (Germanic)
  12. Afro-Seminole Creole (English-based creole)
  13. Aimaq or Barbari (Iranian)
  14. Aini (Turkic)
  15. Ainu (language isolate)
  16. Akan (Kwa)
  17. Akawaio (Carib)
  18. Akkadian (Semitic) (extinct)
  19. Aklanon (Malayo-Polynesian)
  20. Albanian (Indo-European)
  21. Aleut (Eskimo-Aleut)
  22. Algonquin (Algonquian)
  23. Alemán Coloneiro (Germanic)
  24. Alsatian (Germanic)
  25. Altay (Turkic)
  26. Alutor (Chukotko-Kamchatkan)
  27. American Sign Language (Signing)
  28. Amharic (Semitic)
  29. Amorite (Semitic) (extinct)
  30. Anglo-Saxon or Old English (Germanic)
  31. Amdang (Nilo-Saharan)
  32. Ammonite (Semitic) (extinct)
  33. Andalusian (Romance)
  34. Angaur (Malayo-Polynesian)
  35. Angika (Indo-Aryan)
  36. Anyin (Volta-Congo)
  37. Ao (Tibeto-Burman)
  38. A-Pucikwar (Andamanese)
  39. Arabic (Semitic)
  40. Aragonese (Romance)
  41. Aramaic (Semitic)
  42. Are (Malayo-Polynesian)
  43. Argobba (Semitic)
  44. Aromanian or Macedo-Romanian (Romance)
  45. Armenian (Indo-European)
  46. Arvanitic(Indo-European)
  47. Ashkenazi Hebrew (Semitic)
  48. Ashkun (Indo-Iranian)
  49. Assamese (Indo-Iranian)
  50. Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (Semitic)
  51. Ateso or Teso (Nilotic)
  52. Asi (Malayo-Polynesian)
  53. Asturian (Romance)
  54. Ati (Malayo-Polynesian)
  55. Auslan (Signing)
  56. Avar (Northeast Caucasian)
  57. Avestan (Indo-Iranian)
  58. Awadhi (Indo-Iranian)
  59. Aymara (Aymaran)
  60. Azerbaijani (Turkic)

B

Main article: List of languages by name: B
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  1. Badaga (Dravidian)
  2. Badeshi (Indo-Iranian)
  3. Bahnar (Austroasiatic)
  4. Bajelani (Indo-Iranian)
  5. Balinese (Malayo-Polynesian)
  6. Balochi (Indo-Iranian)
  7. Balti (Tibeto-Burman)
  8. Bambara or Bamanankan (Mande)
  9. Banjar (Malayo-Polynesian)
  10. Banyumasan (Malayo-Polynesian)
  11. Basaa (Bantu)
  12. Bashkir (Turkic)
  13. Basque (Isolated)
  14. Batak Dairi (Malayo-Polynesian)
  15. Batak Karo (Malayo-Polynesian)
  16. Batak Mandailing (Malayo-Polynesian)
  17. Batak Simalungun (Malayo-Polynesian)
  18. Batak Toba (Malayo-Polynesian)
  19. Bateri (Indo-Iranian language)
  20. Bats (North Caucasian)
  21. Bavarian (Germanic)
  22. Beja (Cushitic)
  23. Belarusian (Slavic)
  24. Belhare (Tibeto-Burman)
  25. Bellari (Dravidian)
  26. Berta (Nilo-Saharan)
  27. Bemba (Bantu)
  28. Bengali (Indo-Aryan)
  29. Bengali Sign language (Sign languages)
  30. Bezhta (Northeast Caucasian)
  31. Beothuk (unclassified) (extinct)
  32. Berber (Afro-Asiatic)
  33. Bete (Niger-Congo)
  34. Bété (Niger-Congo)
  35. Bhili (Indo-Aryan)
  36. Bhojpuri (Indo-Aryan)
  37. Bijil Neo-Aramaic (Semitic)
  38. Bikol (Malayo-Polynesian)
  39. Bikya or Furu (Bantu)
  40. Bissa (Mande)
  41. Blackfoot (Algonquian)
  42. Boholano (Malayo-Polynesian)
  43. Bohtan Neo-Aramaic (Semitic)
  44. Bolgar (unclassified) (extinct)
  45. Bonan or Paoan (Mongolic)
  46. Bororo (Bororoan)
  47. Bosnian (Slavic)
  48. Brahui (Dravidian)
  49. Breton (Celtic)
  50. British Sign Language (Signing)
  51. Bua (Niger-Congo)
  52. Buginese (Malayo-Polynesian)
  53. Bukusu (Bantu)
  54. Bulgarian (Slavic)
  55. Bunjevac (Slavic)
  56. Burmese (Tibeto-Burman)
  57. Burushaski (language isolate)
  58. Buryat (Mongolic)

C

Main article: List of languages by name: C
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  1. Caluyanon or Caluyanun (Malayo-Polynesian)
  2. Camunic (unclassified) (extinct)
  3. Cantonese (Sinitic)
  4. Carian (Anatolian) (extinct)
  5. Catawba (Siouan) (extinct)
  6. Catalan (Romance)
  7. Cayuga (Iroquoian)
  8. Cebuano (Malayo-Polynesian)
  9. Chabacano or Chavacano (Creole)
  10. Chaga or Kichagga (Bantu)
  11. Chagatai (Turkic) (extinct)
  12. Chaldean Neo-Aramaic (Semitic)
  13. Chamorro (Malayo-Polynesian)
  14. Chaouia or Tachawit (Berber)
  15. Chechen (Northeast Caucasian)
  16. Chemakum (Chimakuan) (extinct)
  17. Chenchu (Dravidian)
  18. Chenoua (Berber)
  19. Cherokee (Iroquoian)
  20. Cheyenne (Algonquian)
  21. Chhattisgarhi (Indo-Aryan)
  22. Chintang or Chhintang (Tibeto-Burman)
  23. Chilcotin (Athabaskan)
  24. Chinese (Sinitic)
  25. Chiricahua or Mescalero-Chiricahua Apache (Athabaskan)
  26. Chichewa or Nyanja (Bantu)
  27. Chipewyan (Athabaskan)
  28. Chittagonian (Indo-Aryan)
  29. Choctaw (Muskogean)
  30. Chorasmian or Khwarezmian (Iranian)
  31. Chukchi or Chukot (Chukotko-Kamchatkan)
  32. Chulym (Turkic)
  33. Church Slavonic (Slavic)
  34. Chuukese or Trukese (Malayo-Polynesian)
  35. Chuvash (Turkic)
  36. Cocoma or Cocama (Tupian)
  37. Cocopa (Hokan)
  38. Coeur d’Alene (Salishan)
  39. Comorian (Bantu)
  40. Coptic (Egyptian) (extinct, liturgical language)
  41. Cornish (Celtic)
  42. Corsican (Romance)
  43. Cree (Algonquian)
  44. Crimean Tatar or Crimean Turkish (Turkic)
  45. Croatian (Slavic)
  46. Cuman (Turkic) (extinct)
  47. Cumbric (Celtic) (extinct)
  48. Curonian (Baltic) (extinct)
  49. Cuyonon (Malayo-Polynesian)
  50. Czech (Slavic)

D

Main article: List of languages by name: D
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  1. Dacian (Indo-European) (extinct)
  2. Dahlik (Semitic)
  3. Dalecarlian (Germanic)
  4. Dalmatian (Romance) (extinct)
  5. Dameli (Indo-Aryan)
  6. Danish (Germanic)
  7. Dargin (Northeast Caucasian)
  8. Dari (Zoroastrian) (Iranian)
  9. Dari-Persian (Iranian)
  10. Darkhat (Mongolic)
  11. Daur or Dagur (Mongolic)
  12. Dena'ina or Tanaina (Athapaskan)
  13. Dhatki (Indo-Aryan)
  14. Dhivehi or Maldivian (Indo-Aryan)
  15. Dida (Volta-Congo)
  16. Dioula or Jula (Mande)
  17. Dogri (Indo-Aryan)
  18. Dogrib or Tli Cho (Athapaskan)
  19. Dolgan (Turkic)
  20. Domaaki or Dumaki (Indo-Aryan)
  21. Dongxiang or Santa (Mongolic)
  22. Duala (Bantu)
  23. Dungan (Sinitic)
  24. Dutch (Germanic)
  25. Dzhidi or Judeo-Persian (Iranian)
  26. Dzongkha (Tibeto-Burman)

E

Main article: List of languages by name: E
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  1. Eastern Yugur (Mongolic)
  2. Eblaite (Semitic) (extinct)
  3. Edomite (Semitic) (extinct)
  4. Egyptian (Afro-Asiatic) (extinct)
  5. Egyptian Arabic (Semitic)
  6. Ekoti (Bantu)
  7. Elamite (isolated) (extinct)
  8. Endegen (Semitic)
  9. Enets or Yenisey Samoyed (Samoyedic)
  10. English (Germanic)
  11. Ennemor or Inor (Semitic)
  12. Erzya (Finno-Ugric)
  13. Esperanto (planned language)
  14. Estonian (Finno-Ugric)
  15. Etruscan (Tyrsenian) (extinct)
  16. Even (Altaic)
  17. Evenk or Evenki (Altaic)
  18. Ewe (Volta-Congo)
  19. Eyak (Na-Dené)

F

Main article: List of languages by name: F
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  1. Faeroese (Germanic)
  2. Fang (Bantu)
  3. Fars (Iranian)
  4. Fijian (Malayo-Polynesian)
  5. Filipino (Malayo-Polynesian)
  6. Finnish (Finno-Ugric)
  7. Finnish Sign Language (Signing)
  8. Fon (Volta-Congo)
  9. Franco-Provençal or Arpitan (Romance)
  10. French (Romance)
  11. French Sign Language (Signing)
  12. Frisian, North (Germanic)
  13. Frisian, Saterland (Germanic)
  14. Frisian, West (Germanic)
  15. Friulian (Romance)
  16. Fula or Fulfulde or Fulani (Atlantic)
  17. Fur (Nilo-Saharan)

G

Main article: List of languages by name: G
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  1. Ga (Volta-Congo)
  2. Gadaba (Dravidian)
  3. Gafat (Semitic) (extinct)
  4. Gagauz (Turkic)
  5. Galician (Romance)
  6. Gan (Sinitic)
  7. Gangte (Tibeto-Burman)
  8. Garhwali (Indo-Aryan)
  9. Gaulish (Celtic) (extinct)
  10. Gayo (Malayo-Polynesian)
  11. Gazi (Iranian)
  12. Ge'ez (Semitic) (extinct)
  13. Gen or Gẽ or Mina (Volta-Congo)
  14. Georgian (South Caucasian)
  15. German (Germanic)
  16. German Sign Language (Signing)
  17. Ghomara (Berber) (extinct)
  18. Gikuyu or Kikuyu (Bantu)
  19. Gilbertese or Kiribati (Malayo-Polynesian)
  20. Gileki (Iranian)
  21. Goaria (Indo-Aryan)
  22. Gondi (Dravidian)
  23. Gothic (Germanic) (extinct)
  24. Gawar-Bati or Gowari or Narsati (Indo-Aryan)
  25. Grangali or Gelangali (Indo-Aryan)
  26. Greek (Indo-European)
  27. Guanche (Berber) (extinct)
  28. Guaraní (Tupian)
  29. Gujarati (Indo-Aryan)
  30. Gula Iro or Kulaal (Volta-Congo)
  31. Gullah or Sea Island Creole English (English-based creole)
  32. Gusii (Bantu)
  33. Gwichʼin (Athabaskan)

H

Main article: List of languages by name: H
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  1. Hadramautic (Semitic) (extinct)
  2. Hadza or Hatsa (Khoisan)
  3. Haida or Masset (Na-Dené)
  4. Haitian Creole (French-based creole)
  5. Hakka (Sinitic)
  6. Hän (Athabaskan)
  7. Harari (Semitic)
  8. Harauti (Indo-Aryan)
  9. Harsusi (Semitic)
  10. Haryanavi or Haryani or Bangru (Indo-Aryan) (a dialect of Hindi)
  11. Harzani (Iranian)
  12. Hattic (unclassified, possibly Northwest Caucasian) (extinct)
  13. Hausa (Afro-Asiatic)
  14. Havasupai or Upland Yuman (Hokan)
  15. Hawaiian (Malayo-Polynesian)
  16. Hawaii Pidgin Sign Language (Signing)
  17. Hazaragi (Iranian) (a dialect of Persian)
  18. Hebrew (Semitic)
  19. Herero (Bantu)
  20. Hértevin (Semitic)
  21. Hiligaynon or Ilonggo (Malayo-Polynesian)
  22. Hindi (Indo-Aryan)
  23. Hinukh (Northeast Caucasian)
  24. Hiri Motu (Motu-based Pidgin)
  25. Hittite (Anatolian)
  26. Hixkaryana (Carib)
  27. Hmong (Hmong Mien)
  28. Ho (Austroasiatic)
  29. Hobyót (Semitic)
  30. Hopi (Uto-Aztecan
  31. Hulaulá (Semitic)
  32. Hungarian (Finno-Ugric)
  33. Hurrian (Hurro-Urartian) (extinct)
  34. Hutterite German (Germanic)

I

Main article: List of languages by name: I
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  1. Ibibio (Volta-Congo)
  2. Iban (Malayo-Polynesian)
  3. Ibanag (Malayo-Polynesian)
  4. Icelandic (Germanic)
  5. Igbo or Ibo or Biafra (Volta-Congo)
  6. Ikalanga or Kalanga (Bantu)
  7. Ili Turki (Turkic)
  8. Illinois (Algonquian) (extinct)
  9. Ilokano or Ilocano (Malayo-Polynesian)
  10. Inari Sami (Finno-Ugric)
  11. Indonesian (Malayo-Polynesian)
  12. Ingrian or Izhorian (Finno-Ugric)
  13. Ingush (Northeast Caucasian)
  14. Inuktitut (Eskimo-Aleut)
  15. Inupiaq (Eskimo-Aleut)
  16. Inuvialuktun (Eskimo-Aleut)
  17. Iraqw (Cushitic)
  18. Irish or Irish Gaelic (Celtic)
  19. Irish Sign Language (Signing)
  20. Irula (Dravidian)
  21. Isan or Northeastern Thai (Tai-Kadai)
  22. Istro-Romanian (Romance)
  23. Italian (Romance)
  24. Itelmen or Kamchadal (Chukotko-Kamchatkan)

J

Main article: List of languages by name: J
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  1. Jacaltec or Jakalteko (Mayan)
  2. Jalaa (unclassified, possibly Niger-Congo)
  3. Japanese (isolated, possibly Altaic)
  4. Jaqaru (Aymaran)
  5. Jarai (Malayo-Polynesian)
  6. Javanese (Malayo-Polynesian)
  7. Jibbali or Shehri (Semitic)
  8. Jicarilla Apache (Athabaskan)
  9. Juang (Austro-Asiatic)
  10. Judeo-Aramaic (Semitic) (extinct)
  11. Jurchen (Tungusic) (extinct)

K

Main article: List of languages by name: K
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  1. Kabardian (Northwest Caucasian)
  2. Kabyle (Berber)
  3. Kachin or Jingpo (Tibeto-Burman)
  4. Kalaallisut or Greenlandic (Eskimo-Aleut)
  5. Kalami or Gawri or Dirwali (Indo-Aryan)
  6. Kalasha (Indo-Aryan)
  7. Kalmyk or Oirat (Mongolic)
  8. Kalto or Nahali (isolated or Indo-Aryan)
  9. Kamas (Samoyedic) (extinct)
  10. Kankanai or Kankanaey (Malayo-Polynesian)
  11. Kannada (Dravidian)
  12. Kaonde or Chikaonde (Bantu)
  13. Kapampangan (Malayo-Polynesian)
  14. Karachay-Balkar (Turkic)
  15. Karagas (Turkic)
  16. Karaim (Turkic)
  17. Karakalpak (Turkic)
  18. Karelian (Finno-Ugric)
  19. Kashmiri (Indo-Aryan)
  20. Kashubian (Slavic)
  21. Kawi (Malayo-Polynesian) (extinct)
  22. Kazakh (Turkic)
  23. Kemi Sami (Finno-Ugric) (extinct)
  24. Kensiu (Austro-Asiatic)
  25. Kerek (Paleosiberian)
  26. Ket (Chukotko-Kamchatkan)
  27. Khakas (Turkic)
  28. Khalaj (Iranian)
  29. Kham or Sheshi (Tibeto-Burman)
  30. Khandeshi (Indo-Aryan)
  31. Khanty or Ostyak (Finno-Ugric)
  32. Khasi (Austro-Asiatic)
  33. Khazar (probably Turkic) (extinct)
  34. Khirwar (Dravidian)
  35. Khmer (Austro-Asiatic)
  36. Khmu (Austro-Asiatic)
  37. Khowar (Indo-Aryan)
  38. Khunsari (Iranian)
  39. Kildin Sami (Baltic-Finnic)
  40. Kimatuumbi (Bantu)
  41. Kinaray-a or Hiraya (Malayo-Polynesian)
  42. Kinyarwanda (Bantu)
  43. Kirombo (Bantu)
  44. Kirundi (Bantu)
  45. Kivunjo (Bantu)
  46. Klallam or Clallam (Salishan)
  47. Kodava Takk or Kodagu or Coorgi (Dravidian)
  48. Kohistani or Khili (Indo-Aryan)
  49. Kolami (Dravidian)
  50. Komi or Komi-Zyrian (Finno-Ugric)
  51. Konda (Trans-New Guinea)
  52. Konkani (Indo-Aryan)
  53. Kongo or Kikongo (Bantu)
  54. Koraga (Dravidian)
  55. Korandje (Nilo-Saharan)
  56. Korean (isolated)
  57. Korku (Austro-Asiatic)
  58. Korowai (Trans-New Guinea)
  59. Korwa (Austro-Asiatic)
  60. Koryak (Chukotko-Kamchatkan)
  61. Kosraean (Malayo-Polynesian)
  62. Kota (Dravidian)
  63. Koyra Chiini or Western Songhay (Nilo-Saharan)
  64. Koy Sanjaq Surat (Semitic)
  65. Koya (Dravidian)
  66. Krymchak or Judeo-Crimean Tatar (Turkic)
  67. Kujarge (unclassified, perhaps Chadic)
  68. Kui (Dravidian)
  69. Kumauni (Indo-Aryan)
  70. Kumyk (Turkic)
  71. Kumzari (Iranian)
  72. ǃKung (Khoisan)
  73. Kurdish (Iranian)
  74. Kurukh or Kurux (Dravidian)
  75. Kurumba (Dravidian)
  76. Kusunda (Tibeto-Burman) (extinct)
  77. Kutenai or Kootenay or Ktunaxa (isolated)
  78. Kuvi (Dravidian)
  79. Kwanyama or Ovambo (Bantu)
  80. Kxoe (Khoisan)
  81. Kyrgyz or Kirghiz (Turkic)

L

Main article: List of languages by name: L
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  1. Laal (unclassified)
  2. Ladakhi (Tibeto-Burman)
  3. Ladin (Romance)
  4. Ladino or Judeo-Spanish (Romance)
  5. Lakota or Lakhota or Teton (Siouan)
  6. Lambadi or Lamani or Banjari (Indo-Aryan)
  7. Lao or Laotian (Tai-Kadai)
  8. Latin (Romance) (liturgical language)
  9. Latvian (Baltic)
  10. Laz or Lazuri (South Caucasian)
  11. Lenape or Unami or Delaware (Algonquian) (extinct)
  12. Leonese (Romance)
  13. Lepontic (Celtic) (extinct)
  14. Lezgi or Agul (Northeast Caucasian)
  15. Ligbi or Ligby (Mande)
  16. Lingala (Bantu)
  17. Lipan Apache (Athabascan)
  18. Lisan al-Dawat (Indo-Aryan)
  19. Lishana Deni (Semitic)
  20. Lishanid Noshan or Lishana Didan (Semitic)
  21. Lithuanian (Baltic)
  22. Livonian or Liv (Finno-Ugric)
  23. Lombard (Romance)
  24. Lotha (Tibeto-Burman)
  25. Low German or Low Saxon or Plattdeutsch (Germanic)
  26. Lower Sorbian (Slavic)
  27. Lozi or Silozi (Bantu)
  28. Ludic or Ludian (Finno-Ugric)
  29. Luganda (Bantu)
  30. Lunda or Chilunda (Bantu)
  31. Luri (Iranian)
  32. Lushootseed (Salishan)
  33. Lusoga or Soga (Bantu)
  34. Luvale (Bantu)
  35. Luwati (Indo-Iranian)
  36. Luwian or Luvian (Anatolian) (extinct)
  37. Luxembourgish (Germanic)
  38. Lycian (Anatolian) (extinct)
  39. Lydian (Anatolian) (extinct)

M

Main article: List of languages by name: M
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  1. Macedonian (Slavic)
  2. Macedonian, Ancient (Proto-Greek) (extinct)
  3. Magadhi (Indo-Aryan)
  4. Maguindanao (Malayo-Polynesian)
  5. Mahican (Algonquian) (extinct)
  6. Mahl (Indo-Aryan)
  7. Maithili (Indo-Aryan)
  8. Makasar (Malayo-Polynesian)
  9. Makhuwa or Makua (Bantu)
  10. Makhuwa-Meetto (Bantu)
  11. Malagasy (Malayo-Polynesian)
  12. Malay (Malayo-Polynesian)
  13. Malayalam (Dravidian)
  14. Malaysian Sign Language (Signing)
  15. Maltese (Semitic)
  16. Malto or Sauria Paharia (Dravidian)
  17. Malvi or Malavi or Ujjaini (Indo-Aryan)
  18. Mam (Mayan)
  19. Manchurian (Tungusic)
  20. Manda (Dravidian)
  21. Mandaic (Semitic)
  22. Mandarin (Sinitic)
  23. Mandinka (Niger-Congo)
  24. Mansi or Vogul (Finno-Ugric)
  25. Manx (Celtic) (extinct)
  26. Manyika (Bantu)
  27. Maori (Malayo-Polynesian)
  28. Mapudungun or Mapuche (isolated)
  29. Maragoli (Bantu)
  30. Maranao (Malayo-Polynesian)
  31. Marathi (Indo-Aryan)
  32. Mari or Cheremis (Finno-Ugric)
  33. Maria (Dravidian)
  34. Marquesan (Malayo-Polynesian)
  35. Marshallese or Ebon (Malayo-Polynesian)
  36. Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (Signing)
  37. Masaba (Bantu)
  38. Masbatenyo or Minasbate (Malayo-Polynesian
  39. Meitei or Manipuri or Meithei (Tibeto-Burman)
  40. Mesqan or Masqan (Semitic)
  41. Mator (Samoyedic) (extinct)
  42. Mauritian Creole or Morisyen (French-based creole)
  43. Maya (Mayan)
  44. Mazandarani or Tabari(Iranian)
  45. Meänkieli or Tornedalen Finnish (Finno-Ugric)
  46. Megleno-Romanian (Romance)
  47. Megrelian or Mingrelian (South Caucasian)
  48. Mehri or Mahri (Semitic)
  49. Menominee (Algonquian)
  50. Mentawai (Malayo-Polynesian)
  51. Meroitic (unclassified, maybe Nilo-Saharan or isolated)
  52. Merya (Finno-Ugric) (extinct)
  53. Mescalero Apache (Athabaskan)
  54. Mesmes (Semitic) (extinct)
  55. Messapian (Indo-European (extinct)
  56. Meru or Kimeru (Bantu)
  57. Miami (Algonquian) (extinct)
  58. Michif (mixed, French and Cree based)
  59. Middle Dutch (Germanic) (extinct)
  60. Middle English (Germanic) (extinct)
  61. Middle French (Romance) (extinct)
  62. Middle High German (Germanic) (extinct)
  63. Middle Persian or Pahlavi (Iranian) (extinct)
  64. Mikasuki or Miccosukee (Muskogean)
  65. Mi'kmaq or Micmac (Algonquian)
  66. Minaean (Semitic) (extinct)
  67. Minangkabau (Malayo-Polynesian)
  68. Mirandese (Romance)
  69. Mlahsô or Suryoyo (Semitic) (extinct)
  70. Moabite (Semitic) (extinct)
  71. Mobilian Jargon (pidgin, Choctaw and French based)
  72. Moghol (Mongolic)
  73. Mohawk (Iroquoian)
  74. Mohegan (Algonquian) (extinct)
  75. Moksha (Finno-Ugric)
  76. Molengue (Bantu)
  77. Mon (Austro-Asiatic)
  78. Mongolian (Mongolic)
  79. Mono (Volta-Congo)
  80. Mono (Uto-Aztecan)
  81. Mono (Malayo-Polynesian)
  82. Montagnais (Algonquian)
  83. Montenegrin (Slavic)
  84. Motu (Malayo-Polynesian)
  85. Mpre (unclassified, perhaps Niger-Congo or isolated) (extinct)
  86. Muher (Semitic)
  87. Mukha-Dora or Nuka (unclassified)
  88. Mundari (Austro-Asiatic)
  89. Munji (Iranian)
  90. Murcian (Murcian)
  91. Muria (Dravidian)
  92. Muromian (Finno-Ugric) (extinct)
  93. Murut (Malayo-Polynesian)

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Main article: List of languages by name: N
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  1. Nafaanra (Volta-Congo)
  2. Nagarchal (Dravidian)
  3. Nahuatl (Uto-Aztecan)
  4. Naiki (Dravidian)
  5. Nama (Khoisan)
  6. Nanai (Tungusic)
  7. Natanzi (Iranian)
  8. Nauruan (Malayo-Polynesian)
  9. Navajo or Navaho (Na-Dené)
  10. Nayini or Biyabanak (Iranian)
  11. Ndau or Southeast Shona (Bantu)
  12. Ndebele (Bantu)
  13. Ndonga (Bantu)
  14. Neapolitan (Romance)
  15. Negidal (Tungusic)
  16. Nenets or Yurak (Samoyedic)
  17. Nepal Bhasa or Newari (Tibeto-Burman)
  18. Nepali (Indo-Aryan)
  19. New Zealand Sign Language (Signing)
  20. Nganasan or Tavgi (Samoyedic)
  21. Ngumba (Bantu)
  22. Nheengatu or Geral or Modern Tupí (Tupian)
  23. Nicaraguan Sign Language (Signing)
  24. Nicola) (Athabaskan languages) (extinct)
  25. Niellim (Volta-Congo)
  26. Nigerian Pidgin (pidgin, English-based)
  27. Niuean or Niue (Malayo-Polynesian)
  28. Nivkh or Gilyak (isolated)
  29. Nogai (Turkic)
  30. Norfuk or Norfolk or Pitcairn-Norfolk (cant, English-Tahitian based)
  31. Norman or Norman-French (Romance)
  32. Norn (Germanic) (extinct)
  33. Northern Sami (Finno-Ugric)
  34. Northern Sotho or Sepedi (Bantu)
  35. Northern Straits Salish) (Salishan)
  36. Northern Yukaghir (Yukaghir)
  37. Norwegian (Bokmål, Nynorsk, Riksmål) (Germanic)
  38. Nuer (Nilotic)
  39. Nuxálk or Bella Coola (Salishan)
  40. Nyabwa (Volta-Congo)
  41. Nyah Kur (Austro-Asiatic)
  42. Nyangumarta (Pama-Nyungan)
  43. Nyoro (Bantu)
  44. Nǀu (Khoisan)

O

Main article: List of languages by name: O
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