Language Landscape

Afrikaans

Afrikaans /æfrɪˈkɑːns/ is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and...

Parents Children Afrikaansic

3

Akan

Akan /əˈkæn/, also known as Twi [tɕɥi] and Fante, is an Akan language that is the princ...

Parents Children Akanic

1

Albanian

Albanian (gjuha shqipe [ˈɟuha ˈʃcipɛ] or shqip [ʃcip]) is an Indo-European language spo...

Parents Children Indo-European

5

Amazonian Kichwa

Parents Children Colombia-Ecuador Quechua IIB

2

American Sign Language

American Sign Language (ASL) is the predominant sign language of deaf communities in th...

Parents Children ASLic

1

Arabic

Arabic (العربية al-ʻarabīyah [alʕaraˈbijja] or عربي/عربى ʻarabī [ˈʕarabiː]) is a name ...

Parents Children Arabian Egyptic Arabic, North African Arabic, Arabian Peninsula Arabic, Arabic, Levantine, Modern standard Arabic, AZIZ

19

Arabic and Moroccan Arabic

Parents Children adilmous, adil moustaoui

5

Arabic, Egyptian

Egyptian Arabic is the language spoken by contemporary Egyptians. It is more commonly k...

Parents Children Egypto-Sudanic Arabic

1

Arabic, Gulf

Gulf Arabic (also known as Khaliji, خليجي Khalījī local pronunciation: [χɐˈliːd͡ʒi] or ا...

Parents Children Arabian Peninsula Arabic

1

Arabic, Iraqi

Parents Children

1

Arabic, Lebanese

Parents Children

2

Arabic, Levantine

Levantine Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة الشامية‎, al-lahjah aš-šāmiyyah), sometimes called Eas...

Parents Children Arabic

1

Arabic, Sudanese, Khartoum

Parents Children Arabic, Sudanese

3

Arabic, Syrian

Parents Children

1

Arabic, Tunisian

Tunisian, or Tunisian Arabic (تونسي Tounsi local pronunciation: [ˈtuːnsi] or دارجة dèr...

Parents Children North African Arabic

1

Aragonese

Parents Children

1

Aramaic

Aramaic (Arāmāyā, Syriac: ܐܪܡܝܐ‎) is a family of languages or dialects belonging to the...

Parents Children Northwest Semitic

1

Armenisch

Parents Children

2

Bahasa Melayu

Parents Children Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian Bahasa Indonesia

1

Baïnounk Gubëeher

Parents Children

1

Baïnounk Gujaher

The Baïnounk languages are a cluster of endangered languages spoken in the Casamance ar...

Parents Children East Baïnounk

3

Basque

Basque (/bæsk/ or /bɑːsk/; Basque: Euskara, IPA: [eus̺ˈkaɾa]) is the language spoken by ...

Parents Children Unclassified

1

Bayrisch

Parents Children

1

Bengali

Bengali /bɛŋˈɡɔːli/ or Bangla /bɑːŋlɑː/ (বাংলা Bangla [ˈbaŋla]) is an eastern Indo-Arya...

Parents Children Gauda-Banga

10

Berber

Parents Children Afro-Asiatic

1

Bergensk

Bergensk, or the Bergen dialect, is a dialect of Norwegian used in Bergen, Norway. It i...

Parents Children Norwegian

1

Biatah Bidayuh

Parents Children Austronesian

1

Bidayuh Bau Jagoi

Parents Children Bau Bidayuh

2

Bisaya

Parents Children

1

Bislama

Bislama (English /ˈbɪsləmɑː/; Bislama: [bislaˈma]), also called Bichelamar, is a creole...

Parents Children Melanesian Pidgin

9

Bosnian

Bosnian /ˈbɒzniən/ (bosanski/босански; [bɔ̌sanskiː]) is the standardized variety of Serb...

Parents Children South-Western Slavic

1

Breton

Breton /ˈbrɛtən/ (Brezhoneg) is a Celtic language spoken in Brittany (Breton: Breizh; F...

Parents Children Southwestern Brythonic

2

British Sign Language

British Sign Language (BSL) is the sign language used in the United Kingdom (UK), and i...

Parents Children BANZSL

1

Bulgarian

Bulgarian (български език, pronounced [ˈbɤ̞ɫɡɐrski ɛˈzik]) is an Indo-European language,...

Parents Children Eastern South Slavic

3

Cantonese

Cantonese, or Standard Cantonese (simplified Chinese: 广州话; traditional Chinese: 廣州話), i...

Parents Children Yue Chinese

8

Catalan

Catalan (/ˈkætəlæn/; autonym: català [kətəˈɫa] or [kataˈɫa]) is a Romance language name...

Parents Children Southwestern Shifted Romance Catalan, Valencian

8

Catalan, Valencian

Parents Children Catalan

1

Chamorro

Native language of the Mariana Islands, Western Pacific.

Parents Children

1

Chechen

The Chechen language (Нохчийн Мотт / Noxčiyn Mott / نَاخچیین موٓتت / ნახჩიე მუოთთ, Nokhch...

Parents Children Chechen-Ingush

1

Chimane

Chimané (Tsimané) is a South American language. Some dialects are known as Mosetén (Mos...

Parents Children Unclassified

4

Chinese

Parents Children Sinitic South Chinese, Northern Chinese, Central Chinese, Wenzhounese

55

Chinese, Peking dialect

a dialect in Peking

Parents Children

1

chinese, zi' gong hua

Parents Children

1

Cicipu

Cipu (Cicipu), or Western Acipa, is a Benue–Congo language spoken by about 20,000 peopl...

Parents Children Kamuku

1

Creole

A creole language, or simply a creole, is a stable natural language developed from the ...

Parents Children All English-lexified creole, Portuguese-lexified creole

12

Creole Casamancais

The oldest Portuguese-based creoles are the so-called Crioulos of Upper Guinea, born ar...

Parents Children Upper Guinea Crioulo

2

Croatian

Croatian (hrvatski) is the standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian language used by ...

Parents Children South-Western Slavic Croatian, Kajkavian

18

Croatian, Kajkavian

Parents Children Croatian Plješivičkoprigorski

1

Czech

Czech (pron.: /ˈtʃɛk/; čeština Czech pronunciation: [ˈt͡ʃɛʃcɪna]) is a West Slavic langu...

Parents Children Czech-Slovak

5

Danish

Parents Children Danic

1

Dari

Dari (Persian: دری‎ [dæˈɾiː]) or Dari Persian (Persian: فارسی دری‎ [fɒːɾsije dæˈɾiː]) i...

Parents Children Persian

1

Devoluy Patois

Parents Children Arpitan

1

Dutch

Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of most of the population of ...

Parents Children Macro-Dutch

4

Dzongkha

Parents Children Sino-Tibetan, Tibetan

2

eastern german

Parents Children

1

Efate, South

The South Efate language is a Nuclear Southern Oceanic language of the Malayo-Polynesia...

Parents Children South Efatic

1

Efik

Efik /ˈɛfɪk/ proper, also known as Riverain Ibibio, is the native language of the Efik ...

Parents Children Efik-Ibibio

1

Eibela

Parents Children Bosavi Watershed

1

Endu

Dialect of Southeast Ambrym spoken in Endu

Parents Children Southeast Ambrym

5

English

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and...

Parents Children Mercian English, Standard, English, British, English, North American, English, South Asian, English, Ghanaian, English, Irish, English, New Zealand, English, International, English, Nigerian, Guinea Coast Creole English, Singlish, Mauritian Creole, English, Somerset, English, North East Essex

316

English of the Southeast of England

Parents Children English of England English, Estuary, English, London, English, Reading, English, North Essex-West Suffolk Border, English, Suffolk

6

English, Australian

Parents Children

3

English, British

Parents Children English English of England, English, Scottish, English, Liverpool

37

English, Bromeswell, Suffolk

Parents Children English, Suffolk

1

ENGLISH, CAMBRIDGE

Parents Children

6

English, Canadian

Canadian English is the variety of English spoken in Canada. English is the first langu...

Parents Children English, North American

8

English, Farsi accent

Parents Children

1

English, Geordie

Parents Children

1

English, Ghanaian

Parents Children English

1

English, Glaswegian

Scottish English variety spoken in Glasgow and surrounding areas.

Parents Children English, Scottish

5

English, Indian

Parents Children English, South Asian

1

English, International

English spoken in International Schools, particular International Baccalaureate institu...

Parents Children English

3

English, Irish

Hiberno‐English (also sometimes referred to as Irish English) is the dialect of English...

Parents Children English

2

English, Lancastrian

Parents Children

1

English, Liverpool

Parents Children English, British

1

English, London

Parents Children English of the Southeast of England

1

English, Mancunian

Parents Children English of the North of England

2

English, Mid-west American

Parents Children

1

English, mixed background, Australia

Parents Children

1

English, New York

Parents Children English, United States

3

English, New Zealand

New Zealand English is the dialect of the English language used in New Zealand. The Eng...

Parents Children English

1

English, Nigerian

Parents Children English

1

English, North American

Parents Children English English, Canadian, English, United States

22

English, North East Essex

Parents Children English

1

English, North Essex-West Suffolk Border

Parents Children English of the Southeast of England

1

English, Reading

Parents Children English of the Southeast of England

2

English, Scottish

Parents Children English, British English, Glaswegian

8

English, Singaporean

Parents Children

3

English, Somerset

Parents Children English

1

English, South Asian

Parents Children English English, Indian

4

English, Standard

Parents Children English

1

English, United States

American English is a set of dialects of the English language used mostly in the United...

Parents Children English, North American English, New York

13

English, US South, Georgia

Parents Children

1

Enterdese

Enterdese is a language constructed by Bernard Baker, aka Escodrion. It is an a priori ...

Parents Children Constructed Languages

1

Esperanto

Parents Children Artificial Language

4

Estonian

Estonian (eesti keel [ˈeːsti ˈkeːl]) is the official language of Estonia, spoken native...

Parents Children Finnic

2

Euskara

Basque (Basque: Euskara, IPA: [eus̺ˈkaɾa]) is a language isolate ancestral to the Basque...

Parents Children Unclassified

1

Fala

Fala ("Speech") is a Romance language commonly classified in the Portuguese-Galician su...

Parents Children Galician Romance

1

Farsi

Persian or Farsi (/ˈpɜrʒən/ or /ˈpɜrʃən/; فارسی fārsi [fɒːɾˈsiː] is the predominant mod...

Parents Children Persian

3

Filipino

Filipino is the standard register of the Tagalog language and the national language of ...

Parents Children Tagalog-Filipino

3

Finnish

Finnish (suomi, or suomen kieli) is the language spoken by the majority of the populati...

Parents Children Finnic

3

Flemish

Flemish or Belgian Dutch (Belgisch-Nederlands [ˈbɛɫʝis ˈneːdərlɑnts], or Vlaams) is the...

Parents Children Macro-Dutch west flemish

10

Foochow Chinese

Parents Children

1

Franconian

Parents Children West Germanic High Franconian, Low Franconian

106

French

French (le français [lə fʁ̥ɒ̃sɛ] or la langue française [la lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛz]) is a Romance lan...

Parents Children Macro-French French, Parisian, French, Belgian, French, Quebec, Circum-Caribbean French, Mauritian Creole

87

French, Belgian

Belgian French (French: français de Belgique) is the variety of French spoken mainly in...

Parents Children French

13

French, Louisiana Creole

Louisiana Creole (kréyol la lwizyàn; French: créole louisianais) is a French-based creo...

Parents Children Circum-Caribbean French

3

French, Parisian

Parents Children French

4

French, Quebec

Quebec French derives from 17th-century French and has numerous phonetic and lexical di...

Parents Children French

4

Friulano

Parents Children

1

Frysk

West Frisian, or simply Frisian (Frysk, Dutch: Fries [ˈfris]) is a language spoken most...

Parents Children Frisian

1

Fulani

Also known as Fula, Fulfulde, Pulaar

Parents Children

1

Georgian

Georgian (ქართული [kʰɑrtʰuli] kartuli) is a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians. It...

Parents Children Kartvelian Georgien

1

German

German (Deutsch [ˈdɔʏtʃ] is a West Germanic language related to and classified alongsid...

Parents Children High Franconian Saxon, Saarländisch, Schlesisch, Middle High German, Middle Low German, German, Austrian

95

German, Austrian

Parents Children German

1

German, Swiss

Swiss German (German: Schweizerdeutsch, Alemannic German: Schwyzerdütsch, Schwiizertüüt...

Parents Children Alemannic German, Swiss, Zurich, German, Swiss, Glarus

5

German, Swiss, Glarus

Parents Children German, Swiss

1

Greek

Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά [eliniˈka] "Greek" and ελληνική γλώσσα [eliniˈci ˈɣlosa] ...

Parents Children Graeco-Phrygian

8

Gujarati

Gujarati /ɡʊdʒəˈrɑːti/ (ગુજરાતી Gujarātī [ɡudʑəraːt̪i]) is an Indo-Aryan language native...

Parents Children Gujaratic Gujarati (mixed with English)

4

Gujarati (mixed with English)

Parents Children Gujarati

1

Gyalsumdo

Gyalsumdo [is] a variety of Tibetan that is spoken in a cluster of villages in the lowe...

Parents Children Kyirong-Kagate

1

Hadoti

Harauti (Hadoti) is a dialect of Rajasthani language, spoken in the Hadoti region of In...

Parents Children Rajasthani

1

Hakka Chinese

Parents Children South Chinese Hakka Chinese, Hong Kong

3

Hakka Chinese, Hong Kong

Parents Children Hakka Chinese

2

Hebrew

Parents Children

2

Hezhou, Linxia

Parents Children Hezhouhua

1

High German

Parents Children West Germanic Upper German

6

Hindi

Hindi (हिंदी), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (मानक हिंदी), is a standardised ...

Parents Children Hindustani Mauritian Creole

8

Hindko

Hindko (ہندکو), also Pahari and Panjistani, is a dialect of Western Punjabi (Lahnda) of...

Parents Children Lahnda

1

Hokkien Chinese

Parents Children

1

Hrusso Aka

Hrusso Aka is an endangered language spoken in the West Kameng district of Aruanchal Pr...

Parents Children Unclassified

2

Hungarian

Hungarian is a Uralic language, and is the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languag...

Parents Children Uralic

7

Iban

Parents Children

1

Icelandic

Icelandic (íslenska) is a North Germanic language, the language of Iceland. It is an In...

Parents Children Icelandic-Faroese

1

Indonesian

Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia [baˈhasa indoneˈsia]) is the official language of Indonesi...

Parents Children Indonesian Archipelago Malay

3

Inuktun

Inuktun (English: Polar Eskimo, Danish: nordgrønlandsk, polareskimoisk, thulesproget, G...

Parents Children Kalaallisut

1

Iranian

Parents Children Indo-Iranian Western Iranian, Zaza language

14

Irish

Irish (Gaeilge), also known as Irish Gaelic or Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the In...

Parents Children Western Goidelic Irish, Donegal

11

Irish, Donegal

Parents Children Irish

2

Italian

Italian (italiano or lingua italiana) is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: It...

Parents Children Italian Romance

34

Japanese

Japanese (日本語 Nihongo, [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]) is an East Asian language spoken by about ...

Parents Children Japonic

20

Japanese Sign Language

Japanese Sign Language (日本手話 Nihon Shuwa?), also known by the acronym JSL, is the domin...

Parents Children Japanese Sign Language family

1

Jejuan

A Koreanic language spoken in Jeju Province, South Korea. Unesco [indicates](http://w...

Parents Children Koreanic

2

Jianghuai Mandarin

Parents Children

1

Joola

Parents Children

1

Joola Banjal

Parents Children North Atlantic

1

Juǀ'hoan

Juǀʼhoan (also rendered Zhuǀʼhõasi, Dzuǀʼoasi, Zû-ǀhoa, JuǀʼHoansi), or Southeastern ǃX...

Parents Children Ju-Kung

1

Kadazan-Dusun

Parents Children

1

Kannada

Kannada /ˈkɑːnədə/ or /ˈkænədə/, (ಕನ್ನಡ kannaḍa, IPA: [ˈkʌnːəɖɑː]) or Kanarese /kænəˈriː...

Parents Children Kannadoid

3

Kayan

Kayan (Kajan) is a dialect cluster spoken by the Kayan people of Borneo. It is a cluste...

Parents Children Kayanic

1

Kazakh

Parents Children

1

Kelabit

Parents Children

7

Kenyah

The Kenyah languages are a group of half a dozen or so closely related languages spoken...

Parents Children Kenyahic

1

Kinyarwanda

Parents Children

1

Kiswahili

Parents Children Swahili

1

Kiwai, Northeast

Parents Children Kiwaian

1

Korean

Parents Children Koreanic

11

Kurdish

The Kurdish languages (Kurdî or کوردی) are several Iranian languages spoken by the Kurd...

Parents Children Kermanic Sorani

3

Kutchi

Parents Children

1

Laani

Parents Children Western Dani

2

Latin

Parents Children Sicilian

2

Latvian

The state language of Latvia, Europe. A Baltic language, sister to Lithuanian.

Parents Children Balto-Slavic

1

Lavrung

Lavrung is a Jiarongic language of China. It is called Guanyinqiao, in Ethnologue, afte...

Parents Children Rgyalrongic

1

Lezgian

Lezgian /ˈlɛzɡiən/, also called Lezgi or Lezgin, is a language that belongs to the Lezg...

Parents Children East Lezgic

2

Limba

The Limba language, Hulimba, is an erstwhile Atlantic language of Sierra Leone. It is n...

Parents Children Atlantic-Congo

1

Lithuanian

Parents Children

1

Louisiana French

This is a variety of the French language spoken in Louisiana.

Parents Children

1

Low German

Low German or Low Saxon (Plattdüütsch, Nedderdüütsch, Platduuts, Nedderduuts; Standard ...

Parents Children Middle-Modern Low German Plautdietsch

11

Lugbara

Lugbara is the language of the Lugbara people. It is spoken in the West Nile region in ...

Parents Children Central Moru-Madi

1

Lun Bawang

Parents Children

5

Lundayeh

Parents Children

1

Luri

Luri (Persian: لری‎ [loriː], [luriː]) is a Southwestern Iranian language spoken mainly ...

Parents Children Luric

1

macedonian

Parents Children Slavic

2

Makhuwa

The Makhuwa language, Emakhuwa (also spelled Makua and Macua) is the primary Bantu lang...

Parents Children Makua-Lomwe Makhuwa Meeto, Makhuwa, Nampula

7

Makhuwa Meeto

Parents Children Makhuwa

2

Makhuwa, Nampula

Parents Children Makhuwa

1

Malagasy

Parents Children Austronesian

2

Malay

Malay (/məˈleɪ/; Bahasa Melayu; Jawi script: بهاس ملايو ) is a major language of the Au...

Parents Children Singapore Archipelago Malay

5

Malay Sarawak

Parents Children

1

Malayalam

Malayalam /mæləˈjɑːləm/ (മലയാളം, malayāḷam, Malayalam pronunciation: [mɐləjaːɭəm]), is...

Parents Children Malayalamoid

2

Maltese

Maltese (Malti) is the national language of Malta, and a co-official language of the co...

Parents Children North African Arabic

1

Mam

Mam is a Mayan language with almost 480,000 speakers (in 2002), spoken in the Mexican s...

Parents Children Mamean

1

Mandarin Chinese

Mandarin (simplified Chinese: 官话; traditional Chinese: 官話; pinyin: Guānhuà; literally "...

Parents Children Mandarinic Hezhouhua, Mandarin Chinese, Baojing, Mandarin Chinese, Chongqing, Mandarin Chinese, Guilin, Mandarin Chinese, Hangzhou, Mandarin Chinese, Hohhot, Mandarin Chinese, Qinghai, Mandarin Chinese, Rizhao, Mandarin Chinese, Sanchuan, Mandarin Chinese, Weihai, Mandarin Chinese, Xi'ning, Mandarin Chinese, Northwest, Mandarin Chinese, Hong Kong, Mandarin Chinese, Wenzhou, Mandarin Chinese, Taiwan

39

Mandarin Chinese, Baojing