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  1. Comprehensive lists. Lists which are global in scope (all living natural languages would classify for inclusion): by primary language family: List of Afro-Asiatic languages, List of Austronesian languages, List of Indo-European languages, List of Mongolic languages, List of Tungusic languages, List of Turkic languages, List of Uralic languages.

  2. This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect . For example, Chinese and Arabic are sometimes considered single languages, but each includes several mutually unintelligible varieties , and so they are sometimes considered language families instead.

    Language
    Family
    Branch
    First-language (l1) Speakers
    English (excl. creole languages )
    380 million
    Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, ...
    939 million
    Hindi (excl. Urdu )
    345 million
    Spanish (excl. creole languages )
    485 million
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  4. Ethnologue (2024) The following languages are listed as having at least 50 million first-language speakers in the 26th edition of Ethnologue published in 2023. [7] This section does not include entries that Ethnologue identifies as macrolanguages encompassing all their respective varieties, such as Arabic, Lahnda, Persian, Malay, Pashto, and ...

  5. List of Wikipedias. Wikipedia is a free multilingual open-source wiki -based online encyclopedia edited and maintained by a community of volunteer editors, started on 15 January 2001 as an English-language encyclopedia. Non-English editions were soon created: the German and Catalan editions were created on circa 16 March, [1] the French edition ...

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